Interview at WRC-12 with Ole Garpestad, Vice-President, The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). Subjects covered include ITU-R Sector Member IARU’s interest in agenda item 1.23 at WRC-12 and an insight into the world of amateur radio. Video by ITU HQ / Geneva
DetailsIt’s official — delegates attending the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) have approved a new 7-kilohertz-wide secondary allocation between 472-479 kHz for the Amateur Radio Service. Agenda Item 1.23 had both its first and second readings in Plenary Session on Tuesday, February 14; to become part of the ITU’s Radio Regulations, each Agenda Item must…
DetailsMessage of the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, on the occasion of the World Radio Day, 13 February 2012. UNESCO makes this audio message – available in English, French, Russian and Spanish. Feel free to listen to it and diffuse it. Audio message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO to be recorded in English/Russian/French…
DetailsA century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi’s wireless telegraph LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution’s celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane…
DetailsProfessor Joe Taylor, amateur radio operator K1JT and 1993 Nobel laureate in physics, briefly addresses a plenary session of the 2012 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 3, 2012. Afterward, he is awarded the ITU’s Gold Medal by Dr. Hamadoun Tour?, HB9EHT, Secretary-General of the ITU. On Friday, February 3, delegates and…
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