IARU EMC spe­cial­ists Tore Wor­ren LA9QL and Mar­tin Sach G8KDF have sub­mit­ted a paper to CISPR con­cern­ing the increas­ing impact of mul­ti­ple dig­i­tal devices on the noise lev­els in the radio spec­trum. The paper was con­sid­ered at the CISPR Steer­ing … Read more →

Effec­tive on 21 April 2020, Japan­ese ama­teurs can oper­ate in expand­ed fre­quen­cy seg­ments on 160m and 80m bands as described below.

160m band

          1,800 — 1,810 kHz   All Modes (New segment)

          1,810 — 1,825 kHz   CW (Exist­ing seg­ment)… Read more →

On the eve of World Ama­teur Radio Day the ITU has pub­lished an inter­view with IARU Pres­i­dent Tim Ellam, VE6SH.

More infor­ma­tion about World Ama­teur Radio Day, 18 April, is avail­able at https://www.iaru.org/on-the-air/world-amateur-radio-day/
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The IARU HF World Cham­pi­onship is lit­tle more than two months away. It is essen­tial that the glob­al COVID-19 pan­dem­ic must be tak­en into account when plan­ning par­tic­i­pa­tion, includ­ing by IARU mem­ber-soci­e­ty HQ sta­tion teams.

Mul­ti Oper­a­tor and IARU Mem­ber Soci­ety … Read more →

As I write this the world is in the midst of bat­tling the COVID-19 cri­sis. A few short weeks ago many of us could not imag­ine the lev­els of iso­la­tion that we are now deal­ing with and the sac­ri­fices of … Read more →