After careful consideration and review of all submissions, the judging committee came to a final decision:

Winner Challenge #1 – HAVE FUN, GO ‘HAM’
Dora HA7DR and Marton HA7MA. Teamlead Rajmund HA2UF

This is a fun amateur radio card game, for every age. The goal of the game is to be the first player to construct your own amateur radio station by collecting all six items. These items are necessary to make your debut as HAM operator.
Watch the movie for the full rules of this game:

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You can easily start using this game at home, or at any other youth event. Rules and cards are available to print out.

Winner Challenge #2 – SPB144, a Special Beacon Project on 144 MHz
Mathias DH4FAJ and Andreas DJ5AR

Mathias and Andreas presented their idea SPB144:

For many decades radio amateurs are fascinated by the large variety of propagation modes in the 144 MHz band. From tropospheric ducting to different kinds of ionospheric reflections and combinations out of it so much is possible. The invention of digital modes and software defined radio equipment led to contacts, we only could dream about in the past. Experiences with a Synchronized Beacon Project in the 50 MHz band led to the idea to introduce a Special Beacon Project in the 144 MHz band to explore propagation modes on special paths with setups of beacons using digital modes and a net of automated receivers, monitoring ²⁴⁄₇ and uploading any receptions of interest to public available servers in the internet. This opens the potential for systematic analysis and citizen science.

Want to know more? The full application of Mathias and Andreas is available.

The judging committee has decided to give a special prize to Robert DJ4FF, for his efforts in developing his submissions for challenge #2.
Congratulations to all winners!

More about HAMChallenge 2023

Within HAMChallenge IARU R1 is looking for cool ideas or projects which you think is part of the future of amateur radio. Amateur Radio is about fun, radio communications, technology, experimentation, self-training, and friendship.
Everyone got the chance to come with a game-changing idea, which increases awareness of amateur radio. In this year’s challenge, 2 categories were opened up.

*the judging committee decided to only award the top candidates, the submissions with potential to make a significant contribution to the future of amateur radio

Have you already submitted your idea for HAMChallenge 2023? Did you receive a confirmation email? If not, reach out to us again via hamchallenge@​iaru-​r1.​org
Due to a technical error, we have not received all submissions. The technical issues has been resolved by now.

Deadline to submit is coming closer! Deadline: 1 July 2023

We are looking for your ideas! We are inviting you to take part in one of the HAMChallenges:

Amateur Radio is about fun, radio communications, technology, experimentation, self-training, and friendship.

Do you have a mind-blowing idea you would like to share with the community?

The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 is inviting you to come with a game-changing idea, which increases awareness of amateur radio. We are looking for your cool idea or project which you think is part of the future of amateur radio.

Make a team, share your idea, present your proposal, and bring this to reality. This is the time present the amateur radio with a different perspective, and we are looking for you!

The best proposals will be rewarded, don’t miss this opportunity!

The challenges

Challenge #1
Oriented to young persons and/or participants without amateur radio license
What is amateur radio? Many people haven’t even heard about it. This should change! Amateur radio is about radio communications, technology and experimentation, but also about friendship, self-training and fun.
Be creative, why would like to learn more about HAM radio? What makes you curious?
Share and explain amateur radio in a fun way, in which you believe it will be attracted and known by more people.
Hint: ideas to share on social media and reaching a huge audience. Make use of reels, pictures, etc.. No limits on creativity!

Challenge #2
Oriented to licensed amateur radio operators
Use your imagination, what will amateur radio look like in 10 years? Yes, we are talking about the future. Amateur radio is changing, in the past we never heard about satellites, digimodes or SDR: And these are just a few examples. We ask you to share a cool idea or project which you believe will be changing amateur radio but is also fun to share. This could be in the direction of a technology project, experimentation or digital development.

Don’t be limited ! We ask you to share your ideas which are contributing to the amateur radio community.

HAMChallenge 2023 Rules – deadline to submit your ideas is 1^st of July 2023