The following news item is courtesy of the American Radio Relay League: December is Youth on the Air (YOTA) Month, when stations operated by young Radio Amateurs around the world will get on the air to celebrate youth in Amateur Radio. YOTA Month began a few years ago in International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region […]
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WRC-19 Six-Metre Allocation in IARU Region 1
For immediate release: Bryan Rawlings, VE3QNRAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences On November 21, 2019 at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a new allocation to the Amateur Radio Service for Region 1 was approved. The allocation, as it will appear in the International Table of Frequency Allocations, will be for […]
Progress Report from RAC Special Advisor to WRC-19: Week 3 Sunday, November 17, 2019
WRC-19 Update: Week 3 Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN – RAC Special Advisor The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, has provided the following update. We will also be including a report on the proceedings and […]
Progress Report from WRC-19
The International Amateur Radio Union’s Executive with the International Telecommunication Union’s Secretary General, Houlin Zhao, at WRC-19. From left: IARU Vice-President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR; IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH; ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao; and IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ. WRC-19 Update: Week 2 Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN – RAC Special Advisor The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) […]
A Tribute to Fern Blodgett Sunde: first female radio operator to go to sea
A Tribute to Fern Blodgett Sunde (1918-1991) The September-October 2019 issue of The Canadian Amateur magazine featured a special tribute article by Debra Dupuis. In 2020, the Cobourg Museum Foundation and a committee of volunteers will commemorate Fern Blodgett Sunde, the first female wireless radio operator (“Sparks”) at sea. Radio Amateurs of Canada is pleased […]
IARU Overview of Week 1 of WRC-19
“Early Progress, Contention on Difficult Issues Mark First Week of WRC” International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Press Release: Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, November 1, 2019 – Week 1 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) saw agreement reached on several issues on which discussions prior to the conference had revealed consensus. Those were the easy ones; […]
ITU World Radiocommunication Conference to “forge pathways for future digital communications”
WRC-19 to manage scarce radio-frequency spectrum for rapidly evolving terrestrial and space-based communication technologies International Telecommunications Union Press Release Sharm El-Sheikh, October 28, 2019 The World Radiocommunication Conference, the international treaty-making Conference governing the global management of scarce radio-frequency spectrum as well as geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits, opened today in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The conference […]
World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is underway in Egypt
RAC Special Advisor Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, at WRC-19 World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is underway in Egypt The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is now underway in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and is being held from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, will be […]
Radio Assembly 2019 of the International Telecommunication Union World Radio Conference 2019: October 28 to November 22
The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Our delegate, Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, is there and will be providing reports to us. Stay tuned to this website for more information. Radiocommunication Assembly 2019 (RA-19) The Radiocommunication Assembly 2019 (RA-19) […]
20th International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 General Assembly Held in Peru
The new IARU Region 2 Executive Committee members: Carlos Beviglia, LU1BCE; José Arturo Molina, YS1MS; Ramón Santoyo, XE1KK; Jay Bellows, K0QB; Tommy Chen, 9Y4T; George Gorsline, VE3YV; and Gustavo de Faria Franco, PT2ADM. The following news item is courtesy of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL): Twenty International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU-R2; the Americas) […]