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Monday, April 16, 2012

World Amateur Radio Day April 18














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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