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World Amateur Radio Day

Radio amateurs around the world are taking to the airwaves today to
celebrate World Amateur Radio Day (WARD)

April 18 is the day for all of Amateur Radio to celebrate and tell the
world about the science we can help teach, the community service we
can provide and the fun we have.

We hope you will join in the fun and education that is World Amateur Radio Day!

The ARRL reports:

Tuesday, April 18, will mark the 92nd anniversary of the International
Amateur Radio Union (IARU), and radio amateurs around the world will
take to the airwaves to celebrate the day in 1925 that the IARU was
formed in Paris. “Celebrating Amateur Radio’s Contribution to Society”
is the WARD theme.

Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that the
shortwave spectrum — far from being a wasteland — could support
worldwide propagation. In the rush to use these shorter wavelengths,
Amateur Radio was “in grave danger of being pushed aside,” IARU’s
history notes. Amateur Radio pioneers, including ARRL co-founder Hiram
Percy Maxim, 1AW, met in Paris in 1925 and created the IARU to support
Amateur Radio worldwide.

Just 2 years later, at the International Radiotelegraph Conference,
Amateur Radio gained the allocations still recognized today — 160, 80,
40, 20, and 10 meters. Since its founding, the IARU has worked
tirelessly to defend and expand the frequency allocations for Amateur
Radio. Thanks to the support of enlightened administrations in every
part of the globe, radio amateurs are now able to experiment and
communicate in frequency bands strategically located throughout the
radio spectrum.

>From the 25 countries that formed the IARU in 1925, the IARU has grown
to include 160 member-societies in three regions. IARU Region 1
includes Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia. Region 2
covers the Americas, and Region 3 is comprised of Australia, New
Zealand, the Pacific island nations, and most of Asia. The
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recognized the IARU as
representing the interests of Amateur Radio.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/world-amateur-radio-day-on-april-18-marks-iaru-s-92nd-anniversary

IARU World Amateur Radio Day
http://www.iaru.org/world-amateur-radio-day.html