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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.
International Amateur Radio Union - Region 1
2016 EC Meeting Minutes
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- Category: Latest
- Published: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 05:43
- Written by Dennis Green, ZS4BS
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The minutes of the Executive Committee meeting held on 6, 7 and 8 May 2016 in Brussels are available for download.
Click here to obtain a copy.
ARDF Events in IARU Region 1 2017
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- Category: ARDF
- Published: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 05:48
- Written by Jirka, OK1CHE
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2017 — IARU Championships
21st IARU Region 1 ARDF Championships, Lithuania
Date: September 4-10, 2017
Venue: Druskininkai Spa Resort
Event homepage: http://ardf2017.lt/
1st IARU World Youth ARDF Championship, Slovakia
Date: June 30-July 4, 2017
Venue: Turčianské Teplice
Event homepage: http://wyac2017.rob.sk/
11th IARU Region 3 ARDF Championships, Mongolia
Date: August 20-25, 2017
Venue: Ulaanbaatar
Event homepage: http://mrsf.mn/
Open 59th Lithuanian ARDF Championship, Lithuania
Date: August 3–6, 2017
Venue: Tytuvėnai
Czech 5days ARDF — 2x National level competition + Czech open foxoring championship + Czech open sprint championship + Czech open relays championship, Czech Republic
Date: July 4–9, 2017
Venue: Svratka
Bolek & Lolek Cup — Polish ARDF Championship, Poland
Date: June 23–25, 2017
Venue: Bielsko-Biała
Open Nordic ARDF Championship, Sweden
Date: July 28–30, 2017
Venue: Grönklitt
International Lithuanian ARDF Championship, Lithuania
(2x classics + sprint + foxoring)
Date: August 3-6, 2017
Venue:
Four Days ARDF at Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
Date: July 12–16, 2017
Venue: Primorsko
Registration deadline: April 30
There will be Sprint, Foxoring, 2m and 80m Classic ARDF Courses.
2016 — IARU Championships
18th IARU World ARDF Championships, Bulgaria
Date: September 3-9, 2016
Venue: Albena
Event homepage: http://ardf2016.com/
17th IARU Region 1 Youth ARDF Championship, Norway
Date: July 2-5, 2016
Venue: Oslo
Event homepage: http://www.eyac2016.org/
Open National Events
HAM RADIO International Exhibition, Germany
Date: June 24 - 26, 2016
Venue: Friedrichshafen
Event homepage: http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de/
- Foxoring competition on sunday, June 28
International German Championships
Date: August 6-7, 2017
Venue: Saarbruecken
ARDF World Cup, Bulgaria
Date: August 29 - September 3, 2016 (prior to World Championships)
Venue: Albena
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
VHF Handbook Version 7.51
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- Category: VHF/UHF/SHF
- Published: Thursday, 26 May 2016 19:34
- Written by Don Beattie
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The new version of the VHF handbook is available in the "Resources" section of the website and can be accessed here
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.
IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter April 2016 available!
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- Category: IARUMS
- Published: Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:26
- Written by DK2OM
- Hits: 1987
The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter April 2016 is now available. Click here!
