World Amateur Radio Day April 18
Newington, CT, USA.
-- There are over 700,000 “ham
radio” licensees in the USA and about
2 ½ million worldwide. This international community of
wireless communications devotees will
celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on April 18th as they
recall the advances their Amateur
Radio Service has made for modern man. The International
Amateur Radio Union (IARU) and
its member societies representing more than 160 countries
around the world celebrate World
Amateur Radio Day each year on April 18, the anniversary of
the founding of the IARU. This is
the 87th anniversary of the foundation.
Their theme for 2012 is Amateur Radio Satellites:
Celebrating 50 Years in Space in
remembrance of the launch of the first Amateur Radio
satellites OSCAR 1 on December 12,
1961 and the launch of OSCAR 2 on June 2, 1962. Since then, radio amateurs have had several
more satellites as they find new ways to communicate world
wide without relying on commercial
systems. Their ranks
have included people like "Steve" Wozniak and John Sculley of Apple,
Dr.
Karl William Edmark who invented the heart defibrillator,
Scott Durchslag, the Chief Operating
Officer at Skype, and Dr. John Grunsfeld of NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Today’s hams continue to explore new frontiers. Radio
amateurs are finding ways to use
frequencies at the fringes of the radio spectrum while
developing marriages of radio and the
internet and experimenting with new forms of digital
communications. Ham radio operators are
“amateurs” only because they are unpaid volunteers, but
their skills and contributions to the
world are of the highest order.
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