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Member Societies seek inputs for 2021 Workshop
· General Conference, Spectrum · Sylvain, F4GKR

Member Societies taking part in the IARU 2021 Workshop program are now working on their SWOT analyses. 

The two largest societies in IARU Region 1, DARC and RSGB, have asked their members and others interested to contribute to the work they are doing to prepare for the Region 1 Workshop in October concerning the future of amateur radio and the role of IARU and its Member Societies through an on-line survey. For radio amateurs in Germany and UK, the opportunity to contribute can be found at https://​www​.darc​.de/​d​e​r​-​c​l​u​b​/​v​o​-​a​r​/​v​o​r​s​t​a​n​d​/​i​a​r​u​-​u​m​f​r​a​ge/ and www​.rsgb​.org/​s​u​r​vey respectively. Both surveys close 23rd May.

Other societies are working with amater radio groups in their countries in differing ways to develop views about the current state of amateur radio which will provide inputs to their work on the SWOT anayses.

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Amendments to the IARU Region 1 Constitution
· General Conference, News · Hans, PB2T

Following approval by delegates at the Virtual General Conference in October 2020, proposals to amend the Region 1 Constitution were put to a vote of all Member Societies in December 2020. The changes principally covered two areas:

  • Introduction of the facility to hold virtual general conferences, subject to prior agreement of Member Societies
  • Changes to the wording of the Constitution to make it gender-neutral

The voting has now closed. Under Article 7.1 of the Constitution, two-thirds of those Member Societies entitled to vote need to vote in favour for changes to be made to the Constitution. The number entitled to vote is 85 and therefore 57 votes in favour are needed.
The results of the vote, which have been checked and validated by the Chairman of Committee C2 at the VGC, are:

  • For the resolution: 67 votes
  • Against the resolution: 3 votes
  • Abstentions: 1 vote
  • Invalid votes: 1

A total of 72 member societies voted of the 85 possible.

The proposed changes are therefore approved. The revised Constitution has been placed on the Region 1 website at https://​www​.iaru​-r1​.org/​r​e​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​/​r​e​g​i​o​n​a​l​-​c​o​n​s​t​i​t​u​t​i​on/

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Recent activity on the 23cm band RNSS Coexistence Studies
· Spectrum · Barry, G4SJH

IARU is continuing to represent the amateur services interests in the 23cm band Galileo/GLONASS radio navigation satellite service coexistence discussions in the CEPT project teams.

The most recent CEPT SE40 project team meeting was held from 24th to 26th March 2021 and the IARU R1 was represented by Barry Lewis, G4SJH (Region 1 SRLC chair). At that meeting the first coexistence calculations were introduced by one CEPT administration, based on some initial assumptions about the amateur service operation. The IARU is continuing to work with the regulators to refine the details of these assumptions and make them and the calculations more representative of typical amateur station characteristics and band usage. These first calculations are considered only as a starting point and the meeting agreed that further work is needed to develop the calculations into a more comprehensive study. 

Measurement campaigns have shown that the potential for coexistence depends very much on the frequency of the amateur service transmissions in the 23cm band with respect to the RNSS receiver bandwidth. This aspect needs to be considered more carefully once the initial scenarios and calculations are agreed. 

In addition the IARU continues to have questions about the protection criteria required by the RNSS receivers and in particular how they relate to RNSS operational and service provision behaviour. IARU has ensured alignment of the amateur and amateur service information being used in CEPT with that being used in the parallel work in the ITU‑R relating to WRC-23 AI 9.1b.

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ATV Contest 2021: rules and Entry form
· VHF/UHF/SHF · admin

The IARU Region 1 ATV Contest will go ahead on the weekend of 12⁄13 June 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 crisis not all participants will be able to reach their portable sites, and some may feel that they are at a disadvantage in only being able to operate from home due to National restrictions.

To address these concerns, as for last year, the contest will be run with 2 sections:

  • Section 1 will be for participants operating from their registered home QTH. No change of operating location will be permitted during the contest for entries in this Section.
  • Section 2 will be for participants operating away from their registered home QTH at any time during the contest. So, even if you operate from home on one day and a portable location on the second day, if you want to add the scores under the rover rule, you must enter Section 2

Apart from these changes, the rules are as stated in the IARU-R1 VHF Handbook V9.01. An extract can be found here.

Please use the normal entry spreadsheet https://​wiki​.batc​.org​.uk/​F​i​l​e​:​A​T​V​-​c​o​n​t​e​s​t​-​l​o​g​-​c​a​l​l​s​i​g​n​-​2​0​2​1​0​6​1​2​.​xls and remember to select the correct Section on the Summary page. Entries should be submitted to National Coordinators or atv@​iaru-​r1.​org before Monday 28 June.

Dave, G8GKQ, IARU Region 1 ATV Contest Coordinator.

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