IARU Presents Amateur Radio
Administration Course in Dakar, Senegal
 Students from Burkina, Mali, Togo, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire and Mauritania at the recent Dakar ARAC course. [Photos by Daniel Lamoureux,
VE2KA] |
 Some of the students assembling a 40 meter ham band
receiver. |
 The Dakar ARAC course class of 2006 with their instructors
and the TU Centre of Excellence representative. |
August 10, 2006 -- The International
Amateur Radio Union presented an Amateur Radio Administration Course July 24-27
in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. Representatives of National Administrations of the
African nations of Benin, Mali, Togo, Cote d'ivoire, Guinea, Senegal and Mauritania took part. Since the early 1990s the IARU has been offering ARAC courses to
representatives of Administrations that can benefit from developing or
enhancing an Amateur Service or an Amateur Satellite Service.
The Dakar course was given at the Centre
of Excellence of the École Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications
(ESMT) under the sponsorship of the Development Sector of the International
Telecommunication Union in Geneva, of the ESMT and of the IARU. Tafa Diop,
6W1KI, of Dakar, representing IARU Region 1, and Daniel Lamoureux, VE2KA, of Montreal, representing the IARU International Secretariat, the course instructors,
declared themselves very satisfied with the course results.
Several topics were covered, especially emergency
communications in case of natural disasters. Both
instructors will stay in touch with the course attendees in order to help them
establish or strengthen Amateur Radio in their countries. -- IARU Bulletin
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