{"id":2677,"date":"2013-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/fracap-holds-53rd-convention\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:00:00","slug":"fracap-holds-53rd-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/fracap-holds-53rd-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">FRACAP<\/span> holds 53<sup class=\"ordinal\">rd<\/sup>. Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fracap-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2527\" alt=\"fracap-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fracap-2013-150x78.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\"><\/a>With Juan de la Cruz Rodr\u00edguez, <span class=\"caps\">YN1J<\/span>, president of Club de Radio Experimentadores de Nicaragua (<span class=\"caps\">CREN<\/span>), as this year\u0092s General Secretary, the Federation of Radio Amateurs of Central America (<span class=\"caps\">FRACAP<\/span>) held its 53<sup class=\"ordinal\">rd<\/sup>. annual convention in Montelimar, Nicaragua on November 8\u2009\u2013\u200910,&nbsp;2013.<\/p>\n<p>The convention counted on the presence of delegates from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, who took advantage of the event to strengthen the ties that already exist between them. There was also the presence of Jonathan Siverling, <span class=\"caps\">WB3ERA<\/span>, as special guest representing the <span class=\"caps\">ARRL<\/span>, who is held in great esteem by all colleagues in the region, and of Marco Tulio Gudiel, <span class=\"caps\">TG9AGD<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">IARU-R2<\/span> Area D&nbsp;Director.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the routine matters that had to be addressed, the participants were able to enjoy technical presentations of diverse nature, relevant social events and the natural beauty of the Nicaraguan Pacific Ocean beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Honduras was chosen to host the next convention and our colleague Norma Leiva, <span class=\"caps\">HR2NL<\/span>, was elected Secretary General, with her husband Cesar Pio Santos, <span class=\"caps\">HR2P<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">IARU-R2<\/span>\u0092s <span class=\"caps\">EMCOR<\/span>, elected as Assistant Secretary General. They committed to host a&nbsp;spectacular event next year. Our best wishes for a&nbsp;successful convention in&nbsp;2014.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows the swearing-in ceremony and delivery of <span class=\"caps\">FRACAP<\/span>\u0092s traditional \u0093nail\u0094 to the elected Secretary General, Norma Leiva, <span class=\"caps\">HR2NL<\/span>, and to her husband, C\u00e9sar P\u00edo Santos, <span class=\"caps\">HR2P<\/span>, Assistant Secretary General, by Marco Tulio Gudiel, <span class=\"caps\">TG9AGD<\/span>, in the presence of Juan de la Cruz Rodr\u00edguez, <span class=\"caps\">YN1J<\/span>, president of <span class=\"caps\">CREN<\/span> and of Oscar Peralta, <span class=\"caps\">YN8O<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Juan de la Cruz Rodr\u00edguez, <span class=\"caps\">YN1J<\/span>, president of Club de Radio Experimentadores de Nicaragua (<span class=\"caps\">CREN<\/span>), as this year\u0092s General Secretary, the Federation of Radio Amateurs of Central America (<span class=\"caps\">FRACAP<\/span>) held its 53<sup class=\"ordinal\">rd<\/sup>. annual convention in Montelimar, Nicaragua on November 8\u2009\u2013\u200910,&nbsp;2013. The convention counted on the presence of delegates from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua&nbsp;[\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-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","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=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}