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The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is a federation of national associations of certified radio amateurs, representing over 150 countries and separate territories around the world.
The three IARU Regions are organised to broadly mirror the structure of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and its related regional telecommunications organisations. The Regions comprise:
- IARU Region 1: Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Northern Asia
- IARU Region 2: The Americas
- IARU Region 3: Asia-Pacific
The IARU represents the interests of the Amateur Radio Service worldwide to relevant international organisations, promoting the interests of amateur radio and seeking to protect and enhance its spectrum privileges.
International Amateur Radio Union - Region 1
G3PSM receives the G2BVN Memorial Trophy
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- Category: News
- Published: Sunday, 22 April 2018 11:01
- Written by Super User
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The 2017 Region 1 Conference agreed the award of the Roy Stevens, G2BVN, memorial trophy to Colin Thomas, G3PSM. The Trophy was formally presented to Colin by Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ, at the RSGB 2018 AGM held in Birmingham on 21st April. In making the presentation, Don outlined Colin's contributions to Amateur Radio, particularly with IARU in CEPT and ITU over several decades, as well as his extensive work with RSGB. In reply Colin recalled that one of his early mentors was Roy Stevens, who had guided him in his early years in international amateur radio forums. The award therefore had a particular resonance for him.
Only eleven G2BVN Memorial Trophies have been awarded since its inception some 35 years ago.
YOTA Subregional camp Italy 2018
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- Category: Youth - general
- Published: Friday, 13 April 2018 09:38
- Written by Lisa, PA2LS
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YOTA Italia as part of ARI, and his local clubs based in Rome Region, organizes from June 21st to 24th in Montecassino – central Italy area around 100 km south of Rome – a YOTA Subregional Camp, with up to 40 youngsters to share a great experience. We invite all youngsters in IARU Region 1 and mainly those in Mediterranean countries.YOTA Italia as part of ARI, and his local clubs based in Rome Region, organizes from June 21st to 24th in Montecassino – central Italy area around 100 km south of Rome – a YOTA Subregional Camp, with up to 40 youngsters to share a great experience. We invite all youngsters in IARU Region 1 and mainly those in Mediterranean countries.A detailed program will be published close to the event and it will include several radio activities, a day to share radio knowledge with Scouts, ARDF and a visit to the Montecassino Abbey. An amateur radio station will be on air from the camp operated by all the youngsters with a special callsign for the event.
Are you interested? Find here more information and a detailed description. Use this link to apply for the event.
World Amateur Radio Day
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- Category: Latest
- Published: Monday, 09 April 2018 15:41
- Written by IV3KKW
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Every April 18th, radio amateurs worldwide take to the airwaves in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day. It was on this day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris.
Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that the short wave spectrum — far from being a wasteland — could support worldwide propagation. In the rush to use these shorter wavelengths, Amateur Radio was “in grave danger of being pushed aside,” the IARU’s history has noted. Amateur Radio pioneers met in Paris in 1925 and created the IARU to support Amateur Radio worldwide.
Today, Amateur Radio is more popular than ever, with more than 3,000,000 licensed operators!
April 18 is the day for all of Amateur Radio to celebrate and tell the world about the science; this is an opportunity for amateurs to show there expertise in digital and wireless communications, to those in the community who have “wireless communication” interests, but haven’t considered the association with Amateur Radio.
World Amateur Radio Day is the day when IARU Member-Societies can show our capabilities to the public and enjoy global friendship with other Amateurs worldwide.
How the day is promoted is a matter for the individual member society and or Region.
Groups should promote their WARD activity on social media by using the hash tag #WorldAmateurRadioDay on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
We hope you will join in the fun and education that is World Amateur Radio Day!
IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter March 2018 available!
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- Category: IARUMS
- Published: Monday, 09 April 2018 14:00
- Written by DK2OM
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The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter March 2018 is now available. Click here!
IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter February 2018 available!
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- Category: IARUMS
- Published: Thursday, 08 March 2018 20:46
- Written by DK2OM
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The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter February 2018 is now available. Click here!
First Tunisian individual licences issued
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- Category: Countries
- Published: Tuesday, 27 February 2018 07:26
- Written by Ashraf 3V8/KF5EYY
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After issuing the ministerial decree allowing for Tunisians to acquire their individual licenses in September, and after arranging for the first amateur radio exam on December 20th 2017, ANF (the Tunisian Regulator) has delivered last Friday the first licenses of amateur radio. That happened in ANF offices in Tunis with presence of ANF director and employees, representatives from the TIC ministry and some ARAT members.
It was a nice opportunity to thank ANF Director for his efforts leading this project to success and offer him and his employees "Contact Sport" Book on behalf of all ARAT members.
EC Meeting 2018
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- Category: Executive Committee
- Published: Sunday, 25 February 2018 15:34
- Written by Hans Blondeel Timmerman
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Mats SM6EAN – Jacques ON4AVJ – Ole LA2RR – Hans PB2T – Joerg DH3JW – Tore LA9QL – Dave EI3IO – Don G3BJ – Alex IV3KKW – Séamus EI8BP – Lisa PA2LS – Andreas HB9JOE – Oliver Z32TO – Sylvain F4GKR – Reinaldo YV5AM
The 2018 EC Meeting was held 16-18 February 2018 at the DARC Headquarters in Baunatal Germany. The minutes can be downloaded here https://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/documents/func-startdown/999/
Nordics On The Air – first subregional YOTA camp
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- Category: Youth - general
- Published: Saturday, 24 February 2018 17:41
- Written by Gergana, LZ1ZYL
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YOTA, as you know, is expanding its horizons more and more from this year onwards and we are glad to announce our first YOTA IARU R1 sub-project! It’s called Nordics On The Air (or NOTA for short) and will be hosted by SSA. NOTA is essentially going to be a camp for young radio amateurs which will take place at Hemsö fortress in the middle of Sweden near Sundsvall/Härnösand. It will take place from March 1st to March 4th 2018. The camp is directed towards all the Nordic countries. The camp will be held on an island which is connected to the mainland by ferry. The campsite is inside an old large military base in a mountain. The shack and cafeteria are inside the mountain as well. There will be many outdoor activities during the camp. Breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snacks will be catered and the food will correspond to normal Scandinavian food traditions. As of now, all the gear is set! Special thanks to everyone who helped making this event possible as well as a big thank you to all our sponsors!
At the camp there will be 3 working HF stations covering 20, 40 & 80 meters plus VHF using the call SK8YOTA. Here are some of the activities included in the program:
Tournament “Battle of Hemsön”
Lectures & Theory
Mountain BBQ
QSO contest
Off air contest
Along with other team building activities
Kit building
We hope to see you there and have a lot of fun at the Nordics On The Air camp!
