Asteroid Named After Radio Amateur

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Published: Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:53

Written by Dennis Green, ZS4BS

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The International Astronomical Union on 13 April, rewarded the space physicist and radio amateur Asta Pellinen-Wannberg, SM3UHV, by designating a celestial body in her name, Asteroid 11807 Wannberg. 

The Swedish national amateur radio society SSA reports: 

Asta Pellinen-Wannberg is a professor at the Department of Physics at Umeå University. She has made a ground-breaking effort to use scattering radar when studying meteors that are activated when small particles penetrate the atmosphere.

The method is now applied to about ten stations around the world. It increases the ability to study different large flows, smaller particles and details in their interaction with the atmosphere, says Asta Pellinen-Wannberg.

Asta is chair of the Swedish National Committee for Radio Science SNRV and has researched together with Gudmund Wannberg, SM3BYA, who served as Technical Manager at EISCAT Radar in Kiruna and Associate Professor at Umeå University.

Youth Contest Program – Young operators visit 9A1A in Croatia

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Published: Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:28

Written by Philipp, DK6SP

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For a while now the YCP (Youth Contest Program) event has been organized by the Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) group, funded by IARU R1. It offers young hams under the age of 26 the opportunity to operate in a team during international contests from so called “Big Gun” stations around Europe. This includes the stations: ES5TV in Estonia, 4O3A in Montenegro, SK3W in Sweden or even 9A1A in Croatia. All levels of contest experience are accepted but a participant should have at least basic knowledge about contesting and using a transceiver. Also, the fun of contesting and the opportunity to learn new things about how to operate more efficiently in contests, are important points for the events success. This year three contests were announced on the webpage of YOTA to be in YCP 2017.

Minutes of the 2017 EC Meeting

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Published: Monday, 22 May 2017 09:24

Written by Dennis Green, ZS4BS

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The minutes of the 2017 EC Meeting, held from 5 to 7 May, can be downloaded here

Region 1 Executive Committee meets

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Published: Monday, 08 May 2017 11:26

Written by Don Beattie

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The annual meeting of the Region 1 Executive Committee was held from 5-7 May in Landshut, Germany. Also present were the Chairs of the three Permanent Committees (HF, V/U/SHF and EMC) together with the Chairs of the Political Relations Committee, the Youth Working Group and IARU Vice President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR

Matters discussed, in addition to regular business were the arrangements for the Region 1 Conference to be held at the Landshut Conference Centre in September 2017, the future financial strategy for the Region, preparations for WRC 19, actions to bring coherence to the IARU brand, including new websites,the STARS programme and the future direction for the Youth programme. Papers to be submitted to Conference by the EC were also approved.

The proceedings of the meeting will be published on this website shortly.

IARU Emergency Telecommunications Guide - Translations

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Published: Tuesday, 25 April 2017 23:36

Written by Greg Mossop

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The IARU emergency telecommunications guide was developed to provide materials suitable for training Radio Amateurs to participate in emergency events and guidance to the individual amateur radio operator who wants to improve their ability to participate in such events or to simply have a better understanding of the process.

Originally produced in English , Radio Amateurs around the world have worked hard to translate the 94 page document into their local languages. So far translations are available in the following languages;

Portuguese by Luiz Fernando Pesce PU2LXN

Spanish by EA1CI EA2BB EA3HUL EB3DGZ EA4GQB and EA8AWK.

and Romanian in HTTP and PDF formats by Francisc Grünberg, YO4PX

It is hoped that these translations will improve the knowledge of Radio Amateurs in Emergency Communications and hopefully this process will be repeated for other languages.

Our thanks to all the translators for their hard work in making this information more accessible to everyone.

Further preparations for WRC-19

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Published: Tuesday, 17 January 2017 14:36

Written by Don Beattie

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A meeting has taken place in the past week in CEPT, which included agenda items considering matters of interest to the Amateur Radio Services at WRC19.

At committee PTD in Helsinki, IARU experts were involved in discussions on WRC Agenda Item 1.1, which proposes an allocation in Region 1 in the 50-54 MHz band, to create a global band at these frequencies. For CEPT, the coordinator for this Agenda item is Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T.

The CEPT summary of the outcome of these discussions states:

PTD updated the draft CEPT Brief. In particular, a preliminary CEPT position was agreed on agenda item 1.1, which would support a new allocation in the frequency range 50-54 MHz to the amateur service in Region 1 only if the spectrum needs for the amateur services are justified and studies show that incumbent services, including their future deployment and services in adjacent spectrum are protected.

PTD developed a working document summarizing the sharing studies currently available for this agenda item. It covers the compatibility between the amateur service in the band 50-54 MHz and incumbent services (land mobile, radiolocation and broadcasting)

Another item discussed at PTD was Wireless Power Transfer, in preparation for WRC19 Agenda Item 9.1.6. An IARU Region 1 paper which argued that greater clarity is needed in terminology and scope of studies to be undertaken on high power wireless transfer technologies was broadly welcomed and is expected to  result in a CEPT contribution to ITU WP1B, the committee charged with developing the wireless power transfer spectrum allocation and related issues.

IARU will continue to actively participate in discussions in the Region 1 Regional Telecommunications Organisations (CEPT, ATU, ASMG and RCC) as well as the all-important forum of ITU.    

HST 2017 date changed

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Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2017 22:47

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To avoid the conflict of event's dates with the General Conference of IARU Region 1, the dates of the next 14th IARU HST world championship has been changed !!

New dates are 8-12 September, 2017 . Venue of the evnt remains unchanged !

Detailed information can be found on the web page of the championship www.hst2017.org

Super Typhoon in Philippines South East

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Published: Saturday, 24 December 2016 23:08

Written by Greg Mossop

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The alerts are out as a powerful late-season typhoon Nock-ten (Nina local name), with PARA activating the Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) as it is to make landfall.

Roberto Vicencio DU1VHY reports the effects are being felt in the south eastern portion of the Philippines with Typhoon Cyclone Warning Signals raised in the Southern Luzon and the Bicol Region.

The HERO network is using 7.095 MHz nationally while each local club is on the 2-metre band.

Authorities have urged hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes on coastal areas with winds up to 240 kph, but the typhoon was expected to weaken over land.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration forecast a storm surge in parts of the country, along with heavy rains and flooding.

The typhoon was projected to weaken as it passed over the central area including the capital Manila.

- Jim Linton VK3PC, Chairman IARU Region 3 Disaster Communications Committee.