{"id":4362,"date":"2020-03-03T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2020-03-07T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T15:22:04","slug":"help-wanted-to-remake-amateur-radio-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/help-wanted-to-remake-amateur-radio-for-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Wanted to Remake Amateur Radio for the 21st<\/sup> Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a \u201cyoung\u201d ham? Want to help remake Amateur Radio for the 21st<\/sup> century? Frustrated that there are so few of your friends and age group that are interested in ham radio? Frustrated that amateur radio is in a rut, not doing more or different things with technology? Concerned that an aging demographic means ham radio is dying? And that our frequencies will be sold out to the highest bidder because there aren\u2019t enough hams to show that we use them?<\/p>\n

So are we. And we want to do more than talk \u2013 we want to do something about it.<\/p>\n

IARU<\/span> Region 2 is looking for a few volunteers to work together to brainstorm ideas and possible actions to increase ham radio\u2019s attractiveness. We\u2019re not looking for a single magic approach. After all, amateur radio means many things to many people. Rather we\u2019re looking for possible ways to target specific interests that are either part of ham radio today or could be part of ham radio in the future to recruit and retain new amateurs.<\/p>\n

Are you interested? Are you:
\u2022 A radio amateur who has been licensed for more than a year?
\u2022 Between 18 and 35 years of age?
\u2022 Are a self-starter, willing to take initiative?
\u2022 Willing to volunteer your time and exercise creativity?
If so, send an email to secretary@\u200biaru-\u200br2.\u200borg telling us why you are interested in volunteering to be part of this group, your current interests (in ham radio, what you do: job, student, etc) and your thoughts on what may be done. Ideally we would like to have as many parts of the Americas represented as possible*.
With the exception of a liaison person sitting in, the formalities of committees won\u2019t apply: the group will figure out how it wants to work (Facebook, WhatsApp, video meetings, etc), and develop ideas of what it thinks will be worth trying out.<\/p>\n

This is more than a think tank. We\u2019re prepared to provide funding to try out some of the proposed ideas to see how well they work. We expect that some ideas will work, others won\u2019t, and different things will work in different parts of the Americas \u2013 one size will not fit all. As part of the work, IARU<\/span> R2<\/span> would propose to send one person to the IARU<\/span> R1<\/span> YOTA<\/span> youth camp to experience the camp, meet with the R1<\/span> youth coordinators to learn about what they are doing in Europe and Africa, to exchange ideas, and explore what joint activities might be done.<\/p>\n

Who are we:
IARU<\/span> Region 2 is the Americas part of the International Amateur Radio Union. Like ITU<\/span>, IARU<\/span> has 3 regions: Region 1 Europe\/Africa, and Region 3 Asia\/Pacific. IARU<\/span> is best known for being the international representative of ham radio at the ITU<\/span>, defending our spectrum. IARU<\/span> does more than that, working through the national societies in each member country, coordinating WINlink networks, band planning, satellite frequency coordination, and training among many others. And of course, IARU<\/span> is very concerned about the future of amateur radio, especially in attracting new amateurs. R2<\/span> has an Executive Committee made up of representatives of each of the 7 areas, a President and a Secretary. All are volunteers, dedicated to seeing that our hobby not only survives but prospers with new ideas and ways to do ham radio.<\/p>\n

*IARU<\/span> Region 2 is divided into 7 areas:
Area \u201cA\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009Northern part of North America including Canada and Bermuda.
Area \u201cB\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009Central part of North America including the United States of America: also including Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands, and also Hawaii and all of the Pacific Ocean islands administered by the United States of America within the boundaries of IARU<\/span> Region 2.
Area \u201cC\u201d \u2013 Mexico and the Caribbean Islands of Antigua-Barbuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Turks and Caicos.
Area \u201cD\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009Central America including Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
Area \u201cE\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009Northern part of South America including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and the Caribbean Islands of Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Grenada and Dominica.
Area \u201cF\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009Central part of South America including Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.
Area \u201cG\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009Southern part of South America including Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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