Around 40 frequency managers of 18 shortwave broadcasters have converged in
Kuala Lumpur since Monday for an Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
conference on reducing interference to shortwave services. The first two
days of the 2005 Coordination Conference of the ABU Shortwave Coordination
Group, ABU-HFC, saw significant success achieved towards this end. The
conference hopes to address frequency channel requirements for more than
6,700 daily shortwave broadcasts by using coordination methods and complex
software tools.

The recent tsunami calamity has underscored the critical importance of
shortwave radio in bringing disaster warnings and new of relief efforts to
the affected population, and the need to keep it free from interference. The
ABU-HFC Steering Committee also met on Monday and made some crucial
decisions on the functions of the group.

(Source: ABU)

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