{"id":2900,"date":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/55th-anniversary-of-iaru-region-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:00:00","slug":"55th-anniversary-of-iaru-region-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/55th-anniversary-of-iaru-region-2\/","title":{"rendered":"55th<\/sup> Anniversary of IARU<\/span> Region 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>On April 16, 1964, the 1st<\/sup>. Pan-American Amateur Radio Congress was inaugurated in Mexico City in order to create what is known today as IARU<\/span> Region 2.<\/p>\n

Delegates from Argentina, Bermuda, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the United States and Venezuela were present. Brazil, Chile and Jamaica participated through proxy.<\/p>\n

IARU<\/span> President, Herbert Hoover Jr., W6ZH<\/span>, was very clear in his speech when stating the objectives of the new organization: \u0093First establish the bases for a permanent organization to promote the interests of radio amateurs in the Western Hemisphere; second\u2026get to know each other better, obtain a deeper perspective and strengthen international friendship ties\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He encouraged present societies to participate actively with their regulators to get the votes needed in the coming World Radio Conference, where it was imperative to defend the bands allocated to the radio amateurs.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned that currently, IARU<\/span> represented 60 member societies and 350 thousand radio amateurs throughout the world.<\/p>\n

The Congress, as indicated by the reports, was very intense. Diverse commissions were created to work actively for 4 days, creating documents and the processes needed for its operation. An Executive Committee was elected by acclamation, integrated by six persons selected using a criterion of geographic balance. The result was as follows:<\/p>\n

President: Antonio Pita, XE1CCP<\/span>
Vicepresident: Jos\u00e9 Italo Giammattei, YS1IM<\/span>
Secretary: Gustavo Reusens, OA4AV<\/span>
Treasurer: Noel B. Eaton, VE3CJ<\/span>
Director: Miguel A. Czysch, LU3DCA<\/span>
Director: Robert W. Denniston, W\u00d8NWX<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, IARU<\/span> Region 2 was created on April 18, 1964.<\/p>\n

This year we will hold our XX<\/span> General Assembly in Lima and, as we did 55 years ago, we will work to meet the objectives mentioned in that initial speech. This work with regional telecom organizations of our continent, the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (abbreviated CITEL<\/span> in Spanish) and with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU<\/span>) is consolidated in a worlwide effort along with the other two regions and with IARU<\/span> International Secretariat to achieve the defense of our interests, of our bands, in the World Radio conference to be held at the end of this year in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is very important to count on the participation of all member societies of the continent in our General Assembly of Lima. We have achieved significant progress, but the commitment is greater: nowadays, IARU<\/span> comprises 160 member societies and represents more than 3 million radio amateurs around the world, and the radio spectrum is used not only by traditional radio signals but by new technologies. It is an effort that we can achieve but only if we work collectively.<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

Ram\u00f3n Santoyo, XE1KK<\/span>
Vice-President
IARU<\/span> Region 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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