DK2OM receives IARU Diamond Award
After many years’ involvement in monitoring intruders on the amateur bands, Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, has decided to retire at the end of 2019. Wolf has worked for the DARC monitoring system in Germany for more than 30 years and since …
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IARU speaks at ATU Workshop
IARU was present at the recent ATU African Telecommunications Union / ICT Day 2019 Commemorative Workshop — “Using Technology to Save Lives: Emergency Communications for Disaster Risk Reductions and Management”. The Workshop was held in Maputo, Mozambique and IARU was represented …
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STARS Working Group
The Chair of the STARS Working Group, Riri Azrak, OD5RI has indicated that he is finding it increasingly difficult to balance his business responsibilities in Lebanon with running the Working Group. I have therefore agreed with him that he will …
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Early Progress, Contention on Difficult Issues Mark First Week of WRC
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 1 November 2019 Week 1 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference saw agreement reached on several issues on which discussions prior to the conference had revealed consensus. Those were the easy ones; the rest will be more difficult. The …
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WRC — the work begins
Work is now underway at WRC19 on issues of interest to the amateur service. IARU’s team of some 14 people are being kept busy in the many committees discussing the agenda items. The Committee considering Agenda Item 1.1 (a 50 …
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