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Hi all and tnx for read this..
Sometimes it's good to read the 'story' of IARU .. -:)
INTERNATIONAL
IARU
http://www.jarl.or.jp/iaru-r3/
Spectrum, the Life Blood of Amateur Radio
To exist, Amateur Radio must have access to the radio frequency
spectrum. Without it, our radio equipment is like an automobile
without a road or a boat without water, interesting to look at,
perhaps, but utterly useless.
Amateur Radio exists for the purpose of self-training,
intercommunication and technical investigations. To accomplish these
broad objectives, amateurs must be afforded reasonable access to the
spectrum from the lowest frequencies to the highest. Yet, spectrum
access is an increasingly valuable commodity. Commercial interests
willingly pay billions of dollars for access to the frequencies they
require in order to be able to sell telecommunications services. The
radio spectrum is so valuable that even government and military users
are under great pressure to relinquish frequencies for commercial
exploitation.
The future may look bleak, but let us remember this:
It has happened before, and Amateur Radio survived and prospered.
In the early 1920s it was the radio amateurs who found that
short-wave signals could be heard all over the world.
The rush soon began to exploit this newly discovered phenomenon.
Radio amateurs, the very people whose experiments had
prevealed the value of the short waves in the first place, were in
grave danger of being pushed aside.
Fortunately, there were far-sighted individuals who
understood the problem and were able to find a solution. In 1925 they
met in Paris and formally created the International Amateur Radio
Union, or IARU.
The first major challenge for the IARU occurred in 1927 at the
Washington International Radiotelegraph Conference. Radio amateurs
easily could have been forced into bands that would have been too
narrow to support future growth. Instead, allocations were won that we
still know today as 160, 80, 40, 20, and 10 meters, with a 5-meter
band that was moved to 6 meters after World War II. The other amateur
bands we now enjoy were the result of decades of patient effort
through the IARU. From less than 30,000 radio amateurs who were
licensed as of 1927, the Amateur Radio movement has grown to three
million. From the representatives of 25 countries who formed the IARU
in 1925, the IARU has grown to include 150 national associations
representing virtually every country with enough amateurs to form an
organisation.
Individual radio amateurs support the work of the IARU through their
membership in their own national IARU member-society. That support is
vital to the future of Amateur Radio. The IARU is recognised by the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as the representative of
the interests of radio amateurs throughout the world. It is our voice
in the offices and meeting rooms of the ITU and regional
telecommunications organisations, where the decisions affecting our
future access to the radio spectrum are made.
All licensed radio amateurs benefit from the work of the IARU, whether
or not they are members of their national IARU member-society. But
every licensed radio amateur should be a member. Only by combining our
efforts in this way can we ensure the future health of Amateur Radio,
for ourselves and for future generations.
(David Sumner, K1ZZ Secretary, IARU)
vy73's de Didier, TU5EX @ TU5EX-1 (.CIV.AF)
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