Establishing a "Center of Activity Frequency for Emergency Traffic on the 15, 17, 20, 40, and 80 meter bands
A proposal from the first Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference, GAREC-2005, to IARU Regions 1, 2, and 3
The first Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference, (GAREC-2005), Tampere, Finland, 13 - 14 June 2005, recommends that the next competent conferences of IARU Regions 1, 2, and 3 should consider
the establishment of a Center of Activity Frequency for emergency traffic in the 15, 17, 20, 40 and 80 metre bands.
Additional proposal:
In recognition of the long tradition of the city of Tampere in emergency telecommunications, and as the host of GAREC-2005, the Conference
Proposes furthermorethat center of activity frequencies determined in the sense of the above proposal shall be known as
The Tampere Frequencies
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