{"id":2807,"date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/amateur-radio-exams-confirm-growth-in-cuba\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:00:00","slug":"amateur-radio-exams-confirm-growth-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/amateur-radio-exams-confirm-growth-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur radio exams confirm growth in&nbsp;Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-frc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-frc-148x150.jpg\" alt width=\"148\" height=\"150\"><\/a>State Exams for applicants wishing to join the Federaci\u00f3n de Radioaficionados de Cuba (<span class=\"caps\">FRC<\/span>) and for those that are already members but want to upgrade to a&nbsp;higher category with increased privileges are held twice a&nbsp;year by a&nbsp;call from the Ministry of Communications and&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">FRC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The exams corresponding to the first semester of 2017 were held last July 22, where 283 out of 312 applicants approved (90.7% approval rate). These results are consistent with the average reached in similar events held last year and confirm the systematic growth in membership in this society, the member of the International Amateur Radio Union (<span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span>),<\/p>\n<p>The learning of <span class=\"caps\">CW<\/span> and the skills acquired in reception and transmission, although not a&nbsp;requirement, continue being the discipline that receives greater attention among applicants for category upgrade, as confirmed by those that did not approve the&nbsp;test.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Carrazana Vald\u00e9s (<span class=\"caps\">CO6JC<\/span>)<br> <span class=\"caps\">FRC<\/span> Information System<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/examenes-cuba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/examenes-cuba-379x500.jpg\" alt width=\"379\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Exams for applicants wishing to join the Federaci\u00f3n de Radioaficionados de Cuba (<span class=\"caps\">FRC<\/span>) and for those that are already members but want to upgrade to a&nbsp;higher category with increased privileges are held twice a&nbsp;year by a&nbsp;call from the Ministry of Communications and&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">FRC<\/span>. The exams corresponding to the first semester of 2017 were held&nbsp;last&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-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}