The International Amateur Radio Union announces that Human Security for All, HS4A, will be the theme of World Amateur Radio Day on 18 April 2023. For the first time, the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security and the World Academy of Art and Science are partnering with IARU in a campaign to highlight the role that amateur radio plays ...
Read More »World Radio Day : Diversity and Inclusion
Amateur Radio, as we know, is a diverse hobby. It provides us with vast expanses of spectrum, which encourages variety in our technical investigations and use. Just as our radio signals know and respect no borders, neither does diversity in amateur radio. I recently attended the kick off session for the IARU Region 1 strategy conference. It was astonishing to ...
Read More »World Amateur Radio Day
Every April 18, radio amateurs worldwide take to the airwaves in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day. It was on this day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris. Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that the short wave spectrum — far from being a wasteland — could support worldwide propagation. In the rush to use these ...
Read More »The Wonderful World of Amateur Radio – ZS6GM
Amateur Radio, often called Ham Radio, is a communications hobby practiced by over 3 million people worldwide.
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