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Latest news
IARU announces the next Simulated Emergency Test
Emergency Communications
The next IARU EmComm Party on the Air is scheduled for the 3rd of May between 1800 and 2200 hours UTC, this should enable more stations from Region 2 to participate as well as providing a greater challenge to the rest of the world since emergencies can happen at any time.
The details of the exercise (to be called a Simulated Emergency Test or SET) can be downloaded here.
IARU Region 1 Conference - November 2008
Individual registration forms mailed
The 2008 IARU Region 1 Conference will be held in November 2008 in Croatia. Those societies who have indicated that they will be sending a delegation should have by now received registration forms by e-mail, to allow delegates to register for the Conference, and to book their accommodation. If your society has not received these forms please click here. If your society has not yet indicated that it plans to attend the Conference, it can still do so, by responding to the calling note, which can downloaded here. This was mailed to all Member Societies and requires action by all Societies.
February 2008
HF Committee C4 meeting at Friedrichshafen
HST "Cup of Nations"
Belarus will hold the 6th International Tournament in HST 'Cup of Nations' from July 4-8th 2008. Whilst not an IARU event, we are providing information here as IARU is deeply involved in promoting HST
Details are available here in a zipped file.
December 2007
New Prefix for Bosnia-Herzegovina Officially Announced
In August, in response to a request from the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the International Telecommunication Union withdrew the call sign prefix allocation T9A-T9Z for Bosnia and Herzegovina and made a new allocation, E7A-E7Z. The change was made initially on a provisional basis under authority of the ITU Secretary-General and was confirmed by the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference to be effective November 17, 2007.
On December 18 the Ministry of Communications and Transport held a press conference in Sarajevo to formally announce the change. Click here for more details
WRC Final Report
Read the final report from IARU about the outcome of WRC07 as far as the Amateur Services are concerned
Irish allocation around 5 MHz
Following extensive contact with the
military authorities by the Irish Amateur Radio Society (IRTS) it has
now been agreed that for an initial period of a year four 3 kHz channels
will be allocated to experimenters on a secondary and non interference
basis in the 5MHz region. Individual applications will have to be made
for permission to operate on these channels.
The 3 kHz channels are centred on 5280, 5290 5400 and 5405 kHz. The
power limit will be 23 dBW (200 watts) to an antenna with not more than
0 dBd gain (e.g. a dipole). The permitted modes will be CW, USB and
digital Modes. The USB carrier frequency will be 1.5 kHz on the low
frequency side of the channel centre frequencies. Some or all of these
channels are also in use in the UK, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Canada and
the USA. It should be noted that three beacon stations in the UK operate
on the 5290 kHz channel for three minutes in every fifteen minutes.
These stations are GB3RAL, GB3WES and GB3ORK Care should be taken to
avoid any interference with these propagation beacons.
WRC07 update
Read details of progress at the World Radio Conference 2007
IARU Region 1 Medal awarded to Rudolf Rieder
At a dinner held whilst delegates were in Geneva for WRC07, IARU Region 1 President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR presented Rudolf Rieder with the Region 1 Medal. See here for details.
IARU Region 1 Conference - November 2008
Calling notice published
The 2008 IARU Region 1 Conference will be held in November 2008 in Croatia. The calling note can be downloaded here. It has been mailed to all Member Societies and requires action by all Societies.
September 2007
Third EmCom Party on the Air on Nov. 11th
Details of the third EmCom party on the air can be found here
August 2007
Report of the May 2007 Emergency Communications Party on the Air
This report is available here
June 2007
As discussed at the Vienna meeting a
Region 1 Field Day reflector has now been set up for those people
interested in this subject to exchange views. The group will be
moderated by Bernard (Ben) Buettner, DL6RAI. Please invite the people
in your Society who either organise or are interested in organising a
Field Day within the Society to join this reflector.
Requests to subscribe should be sent to
IARUR1FD-subscribe_Xyahoogroups.com
(Replace _X with "@" to e-mail)
May 2007
7th IARU World HST Championship
The 7th IARU World HST Championship will take part in Belgrade, Serbia on September 19-23rd 2007. For details see www.hst2007.org
April 2007
Executive Committee meets in Croatia
The minutes of the recent EC meeting are available here
IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Coordinator addresses the Regional Conference on Disaster Relief and Management - International Cooperation & Role of ICT, Alexandria,14-17/04/07
A copy of Seppo Sisatto's presentation is available here
March 2007
Second Emergency Communication on the Air Event
Details of this event have now been published. It takes place on May 5th 2007, 11.00 - 15.00 hrs. Click here for details
You can also see a report of the first EMCom party on the air here
2006
December 2006
Papers for interim HF and VHF Committee meetings available
Click here to download the HF papers and here to download the VHF papers
Danish amateurs gain additional 70 MHz spectrum
As of December 4th Danish Radio Amateurs have gained access to yet another segment of the 70 MHz band:
70,1875 – 70,2125 MHz
That enables the Danish Amateurs to use the “International” calling frequency: 70,200 MHz. This development arises from good cooperation between the Regulatory body: ITST - and the EDR.
The full 70 MHz bandplan for Denmark is at http://www.70mhz.org:80/bandplan_oz.htm
October 2006
Details of 2007 interim meeting of HF Committee
This meeting takes place in February 2007 and details can be found here
Emergency Communications Party on the Air announced
November 18th, 11.00 - 15.00 is the date for this new event, to which all Member Societies are invited. Please see here for more details.
Region 1 EMC e-mail Reflector created
To help discussion of EMC matters between member societies and officers of IARU Region 1, an e-mail Reflector has been created. Mails have been sent to all Member Societies inviting them to propose members for the reflector. Requests should be sent to iaru_region1_Xbtinternet.com (where _X is replaced by @)
August 2006
Website Improvements
The IARU Region 1 Website has been updated to include pages of interest to the casual reader, who wants to know more about amateur radio. Pages have been added describing amateur radio, what radio amateurs do, how to become a radio amateur, and how to listen to radio amateurs.
Administrative Council meets in Bangalore
A copy of the Summary record from the 2006 AC meeting is available here
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