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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