W.A.R.D.

 Every April 18, This Year will be Monday April 18th and will mark 97th anniversary and radio amateurs worldwide will take to the airwaves in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day. It was on this day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris. Check this page:  https://www.iaru.org/on-the-air/world-amateur-radio-day/ 

 World Amateur Radio Day is the day when IARU Member-Societies can show our capabilities to the public and enjoy global friendship with other Amateurs worldwide. 

 April 18 is the day for all of Amateur Radio to celebrate and tell the world about the science we can help teach, the community service we can provide and the fun we have. 

 Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that the short wave spectrum — far from being a wasteland — could support worldwide propagation. In the rush to use these shorter wavelengths, Amateur Radio was “in grave danger of being pushed aside,” the IARU’s history has noted. Amateur Radio pioneers met in Paris in 1925 and created the IARU to support Amateur Radio worldwide. 

 Just two years later, at the International Radiotelegraph Conference, Amateur Radio gained the allocations still recognized today — 160, 80, 40, 20, and 10 meters. Since its founding, the IARU has worked tirelessly to defend and expand the frequency allocations for Amateur Radio. Thanks to the support of enlightened administrations in every part of the globe, radio amateurs are now able to experiment and communicate in frequency bands strategically located throughout the radio spectrum. From the 25 countries that formed the IARU in 1925, the IARU has grown to include 160 member-societies in three regions. IARU Region 1 includes Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia. Region 2 covers the Americas, and Region 3 is comprised of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific island nations, and most of Asia. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recognized the IARU as representing the interests of Amateur Radio. 

 Today, Amateur Radio is more popular than ever, with more than 3,000,000 licensed operators! 

Hopefully you are one of them. If not please consider getting a license. Lots of info available on line. 

The first place to start is at the ARRL web page here:   http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed 

The World Amateur Day will be celebrated in 2020 as it has done for the past 5 years on the Echolink World Conference. Many other groups will be having their own events on all aspects of ham radio. Just listen around.

The World Conference will be on air from Noon to Midnight Eastern time with the following operators. If you make contact eith any of them you qualify for a QSL card and/or a Certificate.

The QSL cards will be sent to anyone who provides an SASE to Peri AA7WB at his address good on QRZ. 

A certificate can be emailed to you by contacting Loren KG7KG@yahoo.com. No paper copy will be provided.

WARD 2020 report

As of Sunday AM, I have sent 31 certificates..

We have had some nice compliments about the effort. Here are some samples:

“ gratefully appreciated kind regards”

I had a great time on WARD. All the nets were fun. Great way to spend a cold day.

I'd love to have the certificate emails to me. I'll get it printed and hung on the wall. 

Again great job by all the net control ops and other participating hams. I look forward to doing it again next year. 

This a great annual event. Keep up the good work!

Hi there my name is martin and I’m from the central part of the UK I checked into yesterday’s net a good few times and would love to receive an attached certificate kind regards from M7bhp

would love to get my printable cert....to add to my wall right next to my ham license Thanks Dave Taylor.…

Thanks so much for all that you’ve done for the World Conference, for this special event, and for our daily nets as well.

I very much enjoyed participating in your World Amateur Radio Day Net.

Congratulations to all of you who organized and handled the event. Happy World Amateur Radio Day!

Brandon and Jessica are doing a great job.

Please email a WARD certificate to me.  I checked in through the K8KRG-R (Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society) in Elyria, OH.

Hello, 

This the first time I've check in the the World Amateur Radio Day and so glad I was able to make contact ! 

Looking forward to getting a certificate.

I've looking on 40 m but haven't had luck yet but will keep looking. I did lucked out and made contact on Echolink. with AA7WB Peri on IRLP REF 9251

Excellent signal contact was made at 1636 zulu

Thank you for putting this on! I've met so many nice people on here and on Ham Radio.

I appreciate all the effort that goes into hosting an event like this.  Well done!

I would adore acquiring a certificate for my first W7W NCS activity for World Amateur Radio Day on April 18, 2020.

I'd love a QSL card too but I do not have access to US postage outlets from this side of the International Border, hi hi.

I would adore acquiring a certificate for my first W7W NCS activity for World Amateur Radio Day on April 18, 2020.

I'd love a QSL card too but I do not have access to US postage outlets from this side of the International Border, hi hi. Thanks to the organization for allowing me to assist for 2020!

As submitted by the NCOs

Note that Dale’s was incomplete

310 total check ins

78 unique call signs.

54 more that once

256 single calls checked in only once

33 checked in 2 times

4 checked in 3 times

2 checked in 4 times

3 checked in 5 times

1 checked in 6 times

1 checked in 7 times

5 checked in 8 times

1 checked in 9 times

2 checked in 11 times

The net ran for 13 hours- Todd ran  the last 2 hours and went beyond that for another hour.