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The IARUR1 is seeking volunteers to help update the “ETHICSANDOPERATINGPROCEDURESFORTHERADIOAMATEUR”document. This document is a valuable resource for all radio amateurs, and it is important that it is kept up to date with the latest practices and technologies.
If you are an experienced radio amateur with a strong understanding of ethics and operating procedures, we encourage you to consider volunteering to help with this project. Your contributions will help to ensure that the document remains a valuable resource for the amateur radio community for many years to come.
Here are some areas but not limited to where volunteers can help:
Reviewing and updating the existing text to reflect on the latest practices and technologies.
Adding new content to address emerging issues in the amateur radio community.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact IARUR1EC member Ahmad 9K2DB
[In the image: John ON4UN author of the first edition]
After careful consideration and review of all submissions, the judging committee came to a final decision:
Winner Challenge #1 – HAVEFUN, 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 applicationof Mathias and Andreas is available.
Andreas DJ5AR and Mathias DH4FAJ
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 IARUR1 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
Sunday was the first whole day in the YOTA23 Győr. After waking up from the first well rested night for many who traveled from afar, we had a pleasant breakfast in the cafeteria and headed to the lecture hall.
At first, we got to know each country by having short presentations about what each country’s radio youth are doing, and how they are doing in terms of size and frequency of their activities. Then we got a nice lecture about ARDF, and even got to try it in the afternoon!
At the ARDF exercise, all teams were given an 80m handheld receiver with directional antennas, and we had to find low-powered transmitters hidden around a marked area. Some brave youngsters even got to venture in a small forest to look for transmitters!
After the ARDF we got to do some split activities. It could be anything from kit building and learning CW to going out swimming in a river or operating in the camps radio station. This was a well-received interactive experience and both the CW from basics and kit building were so popular that neither could fit all the people who wanted to participate in one go. Luckily, we will have more opportunities to continue from where we left off.
To crown the first day, we had the intercultural evening, where every country prepared their own booth where they could serve some goods from their countries, or tell people stories and information about their countries, all the while getting to know the respective countries! The evening lasted up until midnight and many people were there for the whole time! The evening was very well received and greatly helped to lift the spirits and create unity for the people present. The evening was full of laughs, kind words and appreciation towards other cultures – ham spirit at its best! There were even singalongs in various languages and especially teams Finland and Italy seemed to find many songs in common in their respective languages. And many were happy to join even in languages they might not have spoken!
Many great pictures of the evening are available online at ham-yota.com.
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