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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.
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IARU R1 Youth activities – HAM Radio Friedrichshafen
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- Category: Youth - general
- Published: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 05:54
- Written by Lisa, PA2LS
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We are inviting you to join the International Youth Meeting:
Date: Saturday 25-6-2015
Time: 10.00
Place: Room Liechtenstein
With the following lectures:
La Radio è Giovane: YOTA the italian way - Silvio Gaggini IZ5DIY, Alex Carletti IV3KKW
(Statistics) about the success of ham radio training in Germany - Gerrit Herzig DH8GHH, Lars Weiler DC4LW
Youngsters On the Air
Host OEVSV of YOTA 2016 is proudly celebrating their 90th anniversary. OEVSV is inviting youngsters to meet at their booth in hall A1 which will be fully in YOTA theme! Everyone is invited to join on Saturday 25-6-2016, 15:30 hr, the flag ceremony.
The official YOTA flag will be handed over from the YOTA Italy 2015 team to the organizers of YOTA 2016.
We hope to see you at the OEVSV booth!
ARDF Events in 2018
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- Category: ARDF
- Published: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 05:48
- Written by Jirka, OK1CHE
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2018 — IARU Championships
19th IARU World ARDF Championships, South Korea
Date: September 2-8, 2018
Venue: Sokcho
Event homepage: http://www.ardf2018.kr/
2nd IARU World Youth ARDF Championship, Czech Republic
Date: June 30-July 4, 2018
Venue: Doksy
Event homepage: http://wyac2018.com/
Netherlands/Belgium 'Power Failure' Exercise 8 June 2016
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- Category: Emergency Communications
- Published: Thursday, 02 June 2016 23:40
- Written by Greg Mossop
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On Wednesday 8th June between 1800-1930UTC Radio Amateurs from the DARES Emergency Group in the Netherlands and B-EARS in Belgium will be taking part in an exercise simulating a Power Outage in the south of the Netherlands and part of Belgium. In the exercise scenario the groups have been requested to provide welfare and secondary communications links between North Brabant ( near Eindhoven ) and the rest of the country.
The exercise will test the ability of the groups to set up a wide area VHF and a HF network on the planned frequencies of 7065 kHz ( Primary ) and 7110kHz ( Secondary ). The 7065 kHz frequency being needed as Novice Licences in the Netherlands ( PD ) are not allowed to operate above 7100kHz. Operations will be mostly voice but Winlink/Digital modes may also be used.
Radio Amateurs are asked to keep those frequencies clear for the time of the exercise.
Full information ( In Dutch ) is available on the DARES website at http://www.dares.nl/nieuws/245-oef-power-outage .
New Region 1 HF Band Plan
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- Category: Latest
- Published: Monday, 30 May 2016 11:48
- Written by Dennis Green, ZS4BS
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The new Region 1 HF Band Plan which comes into effect on Wednesday 1 June 2016 and the HF Managers Handbook ver 8.2 is available for download from http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/hf/hf-related-references
The Band plan can also be found under the Spectrum and Band Plan tab on the left hand menu
Youth Contesting at ES9C and 9A1A
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- Category: Youth - general
- Published: Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:09
- Written by ES5TV, 9A5W
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In 2016 we continued IARU R1’s Youth Contesting Program (YCP). Youth from Region 1 travelled to the station of ES5TV (ES9C) and took part in the ARI International DX contest while another group went to 9A1A to take part in the CQ-M International DX contest.
The youngsters have written down a summary of the amazing experience they had during both contests, you can read them below:
ES9C
Peter (SA2BLV) from Sweden, Teodora (LZ2CWW) from Bulgaria, Dagi from ET3AA club station in Ethiopia and Fiodor (IZ7YBG) from Italy travelled to compete together with ES youngsters (ES7GM, ES5HTA) and a few local old timers at the station of ES5TV. The goal of winning the world was supposedly met with plenty of margin despite horrible propagation and somewhat limited contesting experience. Everyone was able to try out contesting in 3 different modes and 3 different operating positions (RUN/S&P/MULT). Having all the stations interlocked to each other provided the ops with a great challenge of trying to synchronize with each other's transmissions and avoiding getting killed by the mad RUN op who was blocked by 4 different stations all the time. Due to having another contester born into my family (ES5TV) Sunday morning I was not able to be present but everyone was having plenty of fun without it. Not to mention abundance of food prepared by Tonu, ES2DW on constant basis.
In total 1848 QSOs were made in Phone, CW and RTTY. Score: 3,086,350
9A1A
Once again, the Croatian DX Club 9A1A, had the pleasure of being the host of the IARU Region 1 Youth Contesting Programme. Young contesters came from Hungary to participate in the CQ-M International DX Contest together with our club youngsters.
The members of the contesting team were the Hungarian youngsters Tomi (HA9T) and Novice OP Gabor; 9A1A young team members Mihaela (9A7MIM), Domagoj (9A7CDZ), Eugen (9A5AEV), Marina (9A5CKM), and Luka (9A5CPL); and experienced 9A1A team members Emil (9A9A), Braco (9A7R) and Nikola (9A5W).
The youngsters arrived on the contest location on Friday May 13th where they spent the late afternoon and evening talking about the SAC SSB event, YOTA 2015 and future YOTA activities.
On Saturday morning in accordance to the contest rules the team prepared a strategy. With goal of allowing the young part of the team to handle the majority of the contesting participation.
We used the 9A1A call throughout the event. Equipment set up was as it is for Multi-Multi but with use of Multi OP-single transmitter contest rules. Propagation conditions were nice. A big surprise was that the there were 10 meter band openings on both days. As Saturday and Sunday were very rainy days, even with heavy rain showers, beverage antennas helped a lot to receive signals on 160, 80 and 40 meters bands.
Within 24 hours, 2273 QSOs were logged of which 90% were logged by youngsters!
It was obvious that they really enjoyed huge pile-ups on all bands after band or mode exchange.
Main business for 9A9A, 9A7R and 9A5W was coordination of band and mode use of the running station and multipliers.
In the end we achieved a promising score and we expect to be have top results in MOST categories.
Braco, 9A7R, was our main chef and took care of preparing food in big quantity and excellent quality.
Event impressions are excellent. Bigger than after SAC contest. World wide and multi mode contest gave the youngsters more fun and dynamcs in making QSOs. All of them agreed that in future 9A1A should organize YCP in such type of the contest.
Event was closed Sunday afternoon with pan-cakes in Velika Gorica, a city 17 km away from the contesting location. This city is also the was arrival and departure location for Tomi, HA9T and Gabor.
It was another nice occasion to exchange contest impressions, speaking about the possibility of a new YCP event in the second half of 2016 and in case that we repeat YCP participation in CQM 2017 how to improve QSO rates like some Russian stations did this year.
The youngsters' future plans in amateur radio were also discussed, where less experienced youngsters told us about their plans, specialy regarding knowledge of Morse code.
IARU becomes custodian of operating standards booklet
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- Category: News
- Published: Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:47
- Written by Don Beattie
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Over the last eight years, the booklet “Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur” has become a respected work describing the best standards of operating on the amateur bands. Translated into most major languages, the booklet by John Devoldere, ON4UN and Mark Demeuleneere, ON4WW, is a valuable reference work for all radio amateurs.
The booklet can be found at http://www.hamradio-operating-ethics.org/
Mark and John recently contacted IARU, explaining that they felt it appropriate for IARU to become the custodian of the booklet into the future, with the scope to adapt and update it to ensure it remains relevant and current.
The IARU Administrative Council accepted this offer with gratitude to John and Mark for the work they have put into the document. On May 5th 2016, Mark and John met Don Beattie, G3BJ, President IARU Region 1, in Brussels to officially hand over the document. IARU will now carry forward the work in future years to ensure its continuing relevance and currency.
Emergency Communications Activities at Friedrichshafen 2016
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- Category: Emergency Communications
- Published: Monday, 02 May 2016 20:38
- Written by Greg Mossop
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24-26 June beings the largest gathering of Radio Amateurs in Europe and also the largest gathering of Emergency Communicators at HAMRADIO 2016 in Friedrichshafen. IARU Region 1 will be hosting a meeting for Radio Amateurs interested in Emergency Communications in Room Rom on Friday 24th June between 1200-1500 local time with the following preliminary programme ( times may change ).
1200-1245 Reports from the IARU regional Emergency Communications Co-Ordinators
1245-1345 Open forum for National Co-Ordinators to report on activities in their countries.
1345-1415 GlobalSET Report and ideas for this year
1415-1445 Open forum on changes to the IARU Emergency Message Procedure
1445-1500 Close and discuss Friedrichshafen next year.
The Working language for this meeting will be English.
On 25th June between 1000-1400 the DARC will be holding their fourth 'Notfunk Universitaet' in Room London. This 'University' will cover a wide range of topics including Crisis Preparedness in Lucerne, Emergency Communications Scenarios and the structure of the THW Short Wave network in Bavaria.
The working language for the Notfunk Universitaet will be German and more information will be available from DARC shortly.
Region 1 Interim Meeting - Vienna
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- Category: Latest
- Published: Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:04
- Written by Don Beattie
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Some 70 delegates from over 20 Member Societies were present at the Interim Meeting of the HF, V/U/SHF and EMC Committees of IARU Region 1 in Vienna 15-17 April 2016.
A wide range of issues was discussed, and recommendations from the meeting will be considered by the Region 1 Executive Committee at its meeting in early May 2016. If approved by the EC, these recommendations will become interim Region 1 policy until the next General Conference in 2017, at which time all Societies present will have the opportunity to ratify the proposals.
The input papers are available below as a matter of record:
