Because of the COVID-19 situation ZRS has cancelled the World Youth ARDF Championships that were scheduled to be held in June 2021 in Slovenia.
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Author: Hans, PB2T
IARU Region 1 is saddened to receive the news of the death of John Devoldere, ON4UN.
John was a giant in the field of LF DXing and wrote extensively on the subject. He was Chairman of UBA for nearly ten years and with Mark, ON4WW, wrote the much-respected booklet on “Ethics and Operating Procedure for the Radio Amateur”, now hosted on the Region 1 website.
We have all lost a friend and role-model. We send to John’s family our deepest condolences.
Claude, ON7TK, President of UBA writes:
We will remember John as a radio amateur in heart and soul. He was also a special man. It is an incredibly difficult task to put the merits of this man down on paper in a few lines. The various contributions in CQ-QSO on antennas and the various books on Low-band DX-ing will stay with us. It goes without saying that John enjoyed great fame beyond our borders. We are grateful for his contribution to radio amateurism and for his efforts within the UBA. In gratitude for all his work, he was appointed Honorary President of the UBA in 2009.
Within our association John ON4UN was very active. Between 1963 and 1965 he was active as Traffic Manager. John ON4UN was a member of the HF Committee from 1983 to 2016. In 1994 he became Provincial President of East Flanders. Two years later he joined the national board of the UBA. From 1998 to 2007 he became chairman of the UBA. He was at the basis of many reforms within the UBA. After a long career within the UBA, he retired in 2016. However, he was always prepared for good advice. A lot of what we take for granted today would never have been achieved without the help of John ON4UN.
These difficult times do not allow us to attend the funeral service. Marleen Devoldere, John’s daughter, informed us that she is planning a digital farewell ceremony on Saturday 21 November. She will keep us informed about the practical matters. If you would like to send a message, please email ON4UN.SK@gmail.com — John’s old email account is no longer in use. You can also pay John a visit to QRZ.com where he always kept his CV.
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It is with deep sadness and regret to inform that Our Friend Wojciech Nietyksza SP5FM has passed away on 6th November 2020, at the age of 87. We lost a great radio amateur…
Wojciech was a Honorary Member of the Polish Amateur Radio Union (PZK), licensed for the first time in 1954 as SP5UX, and afterwards — as SP5FM. In 1956, He took part in the National Congress reactivating the PZK. Wojciech was also considerably dealing with the VHF field and He was one of the founders of the Polish VHF Club Association (PK UKF) at its Congress in 1963, becoming a Honorary Member of the PK UKF later on.
Wojciech was the originator of the legendary “Klimek” and “Wawa” handy transceivers which were used not only by the lifeguards of the Mountain Voluntary Rescue Service (GOPR). Wojciech SP5FM will be forever an indisputable icon of exceptional dedication to the development of amateur radio in Poland and all over the world, at IARU, WARC and many other levels. Wojciech made an enormous contribution to the work of IARU Region 1 and to the cause of amateur radio in Europe.
For many years, Wojciech SP5FM was Chairman of the IARU Region 1 External Relations Committee, and also Vice-President and a Member of the IARU Region 1 Executive Committee (altogether, ten terms in a row — from 1972 to 2002).
On 17th May 2014, Wojciech Nietyksza SP5FM was presented with the Michael Owen VK3KI Award (the awarding ceremony took place in Warsaw).
Wojciech was a teacher of many of us, being notably active within the ITU, CEPT and other bodies in the area of the international amateur and professional radio world. His actions resulted in a significant increase in the importance of the amateur radio service, and the current possibility of operation on the extended 7 MHz band was one of the most remarkable achievements completed by Wojciech.
We will always remember Wojciech SP5FM as a symbol of boundless amicability and outright cooperation for the entire amateur radio community. He will be long-remembered for his kindness, wisdom and quiet determination to achieve the best outcome for the hobby which we all enjoy so much. We will never forget His knowledge, sagacity and friendship.
Let us convey our sincere condolences and cordial sympathy to the whole Family of Wojciech, we will always miss His presence, we are deeply pained and words are of no help in expressing the sorrow that we feel at this moment…
May He rest in peace.
Tomasz SP5CCC, Paweł SP7TEV
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Documents for the Virtual General Conference, to be held 11 – 16 October 2020 are available on our conference website at https://conf.iaru-r1.org/part‑1/documents/
A few documents are still awaited and will hopefully be published soon.
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Information about the upcoming IARU Region 1 General Conference is available at a dedicated conference website at https://conf.iaru-r1.org/. Documents for the virtual part of the conference to be held 11 – 16 October 2020 are now being published. The deadline for submission of documents is 10 July 2020.
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