{"id":2729,"date":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/hans-blondeel-timmerman-pb2t-iaru-satellite-adviser\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:00:00","slug":"hans-blondeel-timmerman-pb2t-iaru-satellite-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/hans-blondeel-timmerman-pb2t-iaru-satellite-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T<\/span>, IARU<\/span> Satellite Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iaru-press\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/p>\n

For Immediate Distribution <\/p>\n

April 11, 2016<\/p>\n

\"PB2T\"<\/a>The International Amateur Radio Union is pleased to announce that Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T<\/span>, is appointed to serve as IARU<\/span> Satellite Adviser. The appointment is effective immediately. Blondeel Timmerman was first licensed in 1980 and has served as VERON<\/span> HF<\/span> Manager from 2000\u2009\u2013\u20092001 and as VERON<\/span> Vice President from 2001\u2009\u2013\u20092008. He was a member of the IARU<\/span> Region 1 Executive Committee from 2002\u2009\u2013\u20092008 and served as IARU<\/span> Region 1 President from 2008\u2009\u2013\u20092014. Blondeel Timmerman has served as EUDXF<\/span> President since 2004 and currently serves as a YASME<\/span> Foundation Director. He is retired from the Netherlands Army Signal Corps after a 38 year career working on satellite projects and spectrum management. He lives in the Netherlands with his wife Margareet, K2XYL<\/span> and has 2 adult sons.<\/p>\n

The IARU<\/span> Satellite Advisor represents the IARU<\/span> to the satellite community and the various amateur satellite organizations and performs satellite frequency coordination according to the guidelines established by the IARU<\/span>. In addition, the position calls for maintaining a database of coordination requests and letters, report to the IARU<\/span> Administrative Council on issues related to satellites and satellite frequency coordination and, if requested, to provide technical and operation advice to assist the representation of the amateur satellite service to the International Telecommunication Union. The Satellite Advisor is assisted by a panel of volunteer satellite advisory members.<\/p>\n

Blondeel Timmerman replaces Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV<\/span>, who has served as IARU<\/span> Satellite Advisor since 1994. Van de Groenendaal has established many of the procedures used for amateur satellite frequency coordination and has been a critical contributor to the process of satellite frequency coordination for IARU<\/span>. The IARU<\/span> is grateful for Hans van de Groenendaal\u0092s excellent work and thanks him for his years of service in this important position. He will remain as special advisor to the satellite committee.<\/p>\n

Any additional information can be obtained from the International Amateur Radio Union, PO<\/span> Box 310905, Newington, CT<\/span> 06131\u2009\u2013\u20090905 USA<\/span> Phone +1 860 594 0200, Fax +1 860 594 0259.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Release For Immediate Distribution April 11, 2016 The International Amateur Radio Union is pleased to announce that Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T<\/span>, is appointed to serve as IARU<\/span> Satellite Adviser. The appointment is effective immediately. Blondeel Timmerman was first licensed in 1980 and has served as VERON<\/span> HF<\/span> Manager from 2000\u2009\u2013\u20092001 and as VERON<\/span> Vice President from 2001\u2009\u2013\u20092008. He [\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-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}