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Radio Technical Commission For

Maritime Services Annual Meeting

April 29—May 1, Boston

This year's Annual Assembly

Meeting of the Radio Technical

Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) will be held at the Copley

Plaza Hotel in Boston, Tuesday,

April 29 through Thursday, May 1.

A Welcome Reception sponsored by the RTCM Booster Club will be held at 6:30 pm on April 28 for all registrants and their spouses.

Only one formal luncheon will take place this year, at noon on

April 29. Keynote speaker will be R.

Bryssinck, president of Comite

International Radio Maritime.

Two historic tour programs have been planned. The bus tour on

Tuesday will include highlights of

Boston from Beacon Hill to the new

City Hall, the waterfront area, Back

Bay, Cambridge, and Faneuil Hall.

On Wednesday the tour will follow the route of Paul Revere as he warned the countryside that the

British were coming. It will also include Lexington Green, where

Capt. Jonathan Parker and 77

Minutemen stood their ground against 700 of England's finest regu- lars, and the Old North Bridge where "the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard around the world." On both days participants may depart the tour at either

Faneuil Hall at noon or the Copley

Plaza at 12:15 pm.

Tuesday, April 29 8 am to 4 pm—Registration desk open 9-10 am—Annual Business Meeting 10-10:15 am—Coffee Break 10:15-11:45 am—Session I

Moderator: L.R. Raish, Fletcher,

Heald & Hildreth "Survey of the National Ocean

Service," by Paul M. Wolff,

NOAA, U.S. Department of Com- merce. "Maritime Radio Regulation for the Eighties and Beyond," by Ray- mond A. Kowalski, Federal Com- munications Commission. "Radionavigation Systems Know

No Boundaries—The Problems of

International Coordination and

Planning," by David C. Scull, Re- search and Special Programs Ad- ministration, Department of Trans- portation. "Transitioning Into the

FGMDSS in the United States," by

Capt. Robert E. Fenton, USCG, and Joseph D. Hersey Jr., U.S.

Coast Guard, Department of Trans- portation.

Noon-2:15 pm—Luncheon

Keynote speaker: R. Bryssinck, president, Comite International Ra- dio Maritime. 2:30-3:35 pm—Session II

Moderator: G.F. Hempton, Feder- al Communications Commission. "A Report on the April 1986 Ses- sion of the International Maritime

Organization (IMO) Radiocommu- nications Subcommittee," by Capt.

Robert E. Fenton, USCG. "Recent Developments for Radio

Communicators and Equipment

Maintainers in the Future Global

Maritime Distress and Safety Sys- tem (FGMDSS)," by William A.

Luther, Federal Communications

Commission.

Panel Discussion on National and

International Implementation of the FGMDSS. 3:35-3:50 pm—Coffee Break 3:50-5 pm—Session III

Moderator: H.T. Blaker, Rockwell

International. "The New Wave—Automatic

Telex, Data and Digital Selective

Calling Systems," by Saverio J.

Berte, Radio-Holland U.S.A., B.V. "North European DSC Net- work—Scandinavian Approach," by

Goste Bengtsson, Swedish Tele- com Radio. "A Demonstration of Digital Se- lective Calling Equipment," by Per

Thrane, Thrane & Thrane A/S,

Norway, and Saverio J. Berte,

Radio-Holland U.S.A.

Wednesday, April 30 8:30 am-12:30 pm—Registration desk open. 9-10:30 am—Session IV

Moderator: Yaraslov Kaminsky,

The Mitre Corporation. "The 1.6 GHz Satellite EPIRB

System—Preparations for Preop- erational Demonstration," by Hans

Kesenheimer, Dornier System

GmbH, West Germany. "Current Status and Future of the COSPAS/SARSAT System," by

James T. Bailey, National Envi- ronmental Satellite Data and Infor- mation Service, NOAA, Department of Commerce. "Interactive Distress Beacon for

SARSAT," by Frederick J. Kis- sel, Westinghouse Electric Corpo- ration. "COSPAS/SARSAT SAR Per- formers," by Wayne A. Hembree,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration, and Yaraslov

Kaminsky, The Mitre Corpora- tion. 10:30-10:45 am—Coffee Break 10:45 am-12:35 pm—Session V

Moderator: J.C. Fuechsel, Nation- al Ocean Industries Association. "INMARSAT Looks to the Fu- ture," by David W. Lipke, Com- munications Satellite Corporation. "Problems and Opportunities in the Transmittal of Data Via Sat- com," by George X. Tsirimokos,

Sperry Corporation. "JRC-FDMS for Use with IN-

MARSAT System," by Kouichi

Konnai, Yoshikatsu Okabe and

Masanobu Okuyama, Japan Ra- dio Company, Ltd. "Standard C: A Low-Cost Mes- sage Handling Ship Earth Station," by John C. Bell and David C.

Schoen, International Maritime

Satellite Corporation. 12:35-2:05 pm—Lunch Period, no scheduled activities. (continued)

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