Sev­er­al IARU mem­ber-soci­eties have announced that they are unable to receive ship­ments of QSL cards for their bureaus dur­ing the COVID-19 emer­gency. Before send­ing ship­ments of QSL cards to a nation­al QSL bureau the IARU strong­ly rec­om­mends an inquiry to … Read more →

The ITU has announced that the Final Acts of the 2019 World Radio­com­mu­ni­ca­tion Con­fer­ence are now avail­able for free download.

https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/CM01-2020-WRC19-Final-Acts.aspx

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Here are some notes about how the IARU is deal­ing, as of March 19, with the restric­tions now in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The ITU has can­celled some meet­ings, post­poned oth­ers, and con­vert­ed still oth­ers into E‑meetings … Read more →

After many years’ involve­ment in mon­i­tor­ing intrud­ers on the ama­teur bands, Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, has decid­ed to retire at the end of 2019. Wolf has worked for the DARC mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem in Ger­many for more than 30 years and since … Read more →

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 21 Novem­ber 2019

The World Radio­com­mu­ni­ca­tion Con­fer­ence WRC-19 has approved an allo­ca­tion in the 50 MHz band for ama­teurs in Region 1. The deci­sion will now be incor­po­rat­ed in the Final Acts of the conference.

The deci­sion comes … Read more →