On the third weekend of April and May, the IARU Region 1 organized the first 50 and 70 MHz MGM-only contests.
The official results are now published.
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Author: Alex, IV3KKW
IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ, speaking about the meeting he chaired on Saturday 12th June as part of the IARU Region 1 Workshop Program on the future of amateur radio, has commented “I am pleased that we now have the Program underway, and have completed the first step in our work. The overall Program is an important process to take an honest look at amateur radio today and refocus us all on the priorities for the future. Building on the self-reflection questionnaire which member societies considered in 2020, we have now created a baseline of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats which our Member Societies see facing them.”
The session on 12th June involved some 34 member societies of Region 1 from South Africa in the South to Iceland in the North and Bahrain to the East. All contributed to working sessions to review the summary views of member societies on the issues facing amateur radio.
“Our next steps will be to consider where we would like amateur radio to be in, say, ten years’ time, and to work through the steps and the programs that will help take it there” said Beattie. “We are at a time of enormous change in the environment for amateur radio and this represents a big challenge for IARU and its member societies. With the commitment of our member societies through this workshop program, I believe we can rise to that challenge”
Workshop participants are now considering the output from the 12th June session, and beginning to build their inputs to discussions about the future shape of amateur radio, scheduled for the next steps of the program in Serbia in October.
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The IARU Region 1 2021 Workshop delegates gathered virtually on April 21st to officially start the pre-work which will lead the MS to the next October workshop programme addressing the future of amateur radio.
Over 100 delegates representing their MS were present to jointly work for a strategy plan using some appropriate tools to collect important data and then draft a first document to be used in the next sessions.
The first step is to understand what are the current strengths and weaknesses of amateur radio so we can consider how to address the activities for the next future.
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The position on the COVID pandemic remains serious and unpredictable. Governments everywhere struggle with balancing the health of their economies with the health of their populations. The vaccine roll-out seems likely to take most of this year and even then, the impact of mutant strains of the virus and national quarantine requirements are difficult to predict
IARU Region 1 has a number of in-person events planned for 2021 in the Youth, ARDF and HST areas, as well as the planned Workshop for Member Societies. It is not yet certain whether it will be possible to run these events as scheduled.
IARU Region 1 will adopt the following approach:
Youth events scheduled before end-June will not take place. These events make social distancing difficult and we do not believe it will be possible for them to take place. Other 2021 events will remain in the calendar for the time being. We will review the forecast evolution of the pandemic sufficiently prior to each event and make an announcement about whether it will take place. Generally this will be four months prior to the scheduled date. Those planning to attend should thus have sufficient time to make the necessary bookings and travel arrangements.
IARU Region 1’s intent is to ensure that any events which take place do so in an environment which respects national requirements for pandemic control and which does not place at risk the health and well-being of those participating.
The IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group
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Provisional results for the last Marconi Memorial VHF Contest are available on IARU Region 1 VHF & Up Contest Robot .
We received a total of 892 logs from 28 different countries in the Region 1.
The complaining period will end on February 3rd, after that results will be final.
For any request please write to Alex IV3KKW.
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