
9. Amateur radio and society
9.1 Emergency organization
Entirely dependent on the ORSEC (ORganisation des SECours) plan, this organization was proposed to the Civil Protection services, who found it a means of communication they didn't have. Almost all French departments are organized in this way, with teams ready to operate around the clock. There are three types of collaboration: emergency traffic flow in the event of an ORSEC plan or its annexes being triggered, participation in exercises, major maneuvers, road safety and, finally, direction-finding for the search for aviation distress beacons. A number of real-life cases have demonstrated our rapid efficiency in this area. Each aircraft is equipped with a beacon on the international distress frequencies 121.5 and 243 MHz. It can be activated manually or automatically...
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Amateur radio and society
Organizations
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ART) http://www.art-telecom.fr
Agence nationale des fréquences (ANFR) http://www.anfr.fr
French Telegraph Union (UFT) ...
Bibliography
Websites
http://www.ref.union.org
http://www.loria.fr/~martin/
http://www.amsat.org
http://www.iaru.org
http://www.alpcom.it/hamradio/
http://uhavax.hartford.edu
http://www.hamradio.com
http://www.qrz.com
http://www.comune.bologna.it/perbole/amarconi/indexfr.html...
Suppliers - Controllers
Comelec
http://www.comelec.fr/
Icom France
http://www.icom-france.com
GHG
http://www.ges.fr/
ALINCO
http://www.alinco.com
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