Amateur
Radio Supporting Technology Education in the Classroom
World
Amateur Radio Day is marked on the 18th of April each year to commemorate
the anniversary of the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union
on that date in 1925.
The theme
of this year's IARU World Amateur Radio Day is to be 'amateur radio supporting
technology education in the classroom'.
Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, the Chairman of IARU Region 1 writes: "There
is no doubt that the future of amateur radio belongs to those that are
now in the classroom. In keeping with this theme, I would like to encourage
every society in the Region to let our young people know that amateur
radio is a unique hobby - simultaneously sport, scientific study, personal
pleasure and collective activity. And that radio amateurs today are voluntary
and selfless researchers in the technological field of amateur radio,
an important resource to every country, and something to be proud of.
But the 18th of April is not only a day to think about our future, it
is our day, a day for celebration. All of us, societies and individuals,
can celebrate in our various ways - organising presentations, club meetings,
parties, honouring senior radio amateurs who go back to the early years
of IARU, or just putting our equipment on the air and making just a single
QSO on this day, so realising how large our ham community is."
The IARU
is a sector member of the International
Telecommunication Union and is the recognized representative of the
Amateur and Amateur-Satellite Services at the ITU.
Further
information on how to become a radio amateur can be obtained from
the RSGB.
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