{"id":2621,"date":"2012-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/cuba-celebrates-world-amateur-radio-day\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T22:00:00","slug":"cuba-celebrates-world-amateur-radio-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/cuba-celebrates-world-amateur-radio-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba celebrates World Amateur Radio Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>During the events to commemorate the \u0093World Amateur Radio Day\u0094, the National Executive of Federaci\u00f3n de Radioaficionados de Cuba (FRC<\/span>) informs about the activities that are underway from April 13 to 21, coinciding with the celebration of the World Amateur Radio Day and the 87th<\/sup> Anniversary of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU<\/span>), whose motto this year is \u201cAmateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years in Space\u201d:<\/p>\n

The recently formed \u0093Group of Amateurs for Satellite Operations\u0094 (abbreviated GROS<\/span> in Spanish) of the FRC<\/span> has been promoting radio activity through amateur radio satellites, since Friday, April 13, holding a discussion board through the VHF<\/span> repeater located at Pico San Juan, which provides coverage to CO<\/span> zones 4, 5, 6, 7 and part of CO8<\/span>. H\u00e9ctor, CO6CBF<\/span>, with a lecture on GROS<\/span>, the history of amateur radio satellites, active satellites, requirements and the implementation of domestic solutions for satellite operation, among other subjects.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, April 14, simultaneous conferences were held in the cities of Havana and Camag\u00fcey, led by Raydel, CM2ESP<\/span>, and Pavel, CO7WT<\/span>, respectively, promoting the work of GROS<\/span>, a brief summary of amateur radio satellites, space mechanics and the use of the ISS<\/span> for digital communications, among other subjects.<\/p>\n

On April 14 and 15, with the holding of the traditional \u0093Victoria de Gir\u00f3n\u0094 national phone contest in the 160, 80 and 40-meter bands, more than one hundred stations of the three license categories in Cuba participated. A special 8\u2011hour CW<\/span> session within it promotes the use of that mode in QSOs.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, April 18, there is the announcement of the \u0093Centennial Certificate<\/strong>\u0094, to commemorate the birth of radio amateur Mario Mu\u00f1oz Monroy, CO5MM<\/span>, a martyr of the independence struggle in Cuba, valid for those that work 100 Cuban stations in the 160, 80 and 40-meter bands in the 100 days between April 18 and July 26 of 2012. No QSL<\/span> cards are needed, but the log must be attached to the application.<\/p>\n

Specifically on April 18, a special and unique version of Diploma CUBA<\/span><\/strong>, satellite version, is announced, awarded for working the 8 Cuban CM<\/span>\/CO<\/span>\/T41-CM<\/span>\/CO<\/span>\/T48<\/span> districts during April 18, 19, 20 and 21, via satellite. Collective CM<\/span>\/CO<\/span>\/T49<\/span> stations and special CM<\/span>\/CO<\/span>\/T4\u00d8<\/span> stations can be used to substitute a district. No QSL<\/span> cards are needed for this diploma, only a detail of the stations contacted, indicating date, time, station worked, satellite used and locator received. Valid for Cuban and foreign stations with the same general rules of FRC<\/span> Diplomas (http:\/\/\u200bfrc\u200b.co\u200b.cu<\/a>)<\/p>\n

On Saturday, April 12, starting at 10:00 am, a joint exercise will be held by FRC<\/span> \u0096National Civilian Defense, called \u201cRadio-2012<\/strong>\u2033, simulating the use of digital communications in emergency situations (a large earthquake) with the main participation in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Camag\u00fcey, La Habana and Pinar del R\u00edo.<\/p>\n

On the same day, April 21, special station T4\u00d8IARU<\/span><\/strong> will be active from the cities of Havana (EL83<\/span>), Cienfuegos (EL92<\/span>) and Camag\u00fcey (FL11<\/span>), in satellites ISS<\/span>, AO-07<\/span>, AO-27<\/span>, FO-29<\/span>, SO-50<\/span> and VO-52<\/span>, to culminate the activities of FRC<\/span> for this important event.<\/p>\n

Information by: CO2HA<\/span>, Ing. Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n

Vicepresident of the National Executive of FRC<\/span><\/p>\n

FRC-IARU<\/span> Liaison<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Translation: Jos\u00e9 Arturo Molina, YS1MS<\/span>, IARU<\/span> R2<\/span> Vice President<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the events to commemorate the \u0093World Amateur Radio Day\u0094, the National Executive of Federaci\u00f3n de Radioaficionados de Cuba (FRC<\/span>) informs about the activities that are underway from April 13 to 21, coinciding with the celebration of the World Amateur Radio Day and the 87th<\/sup> Anniversary of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU<\/span>), whose motto this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}