World Amateur Radio Day 2005 Award announced
April 11, 2005 -- The World Amateur Radio Day 2005 Award commemorates the founding 80
years ago in Paris of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). World Amateur Radio Day is celebrated
each year on April 18, the anniversary of the IARU's founding. The theme of
this year's World Amateur Radio Day is "Radio Amateurs Expanding the World of
Wireless Communications." The World Amateur Radio Day Award is sponsored by MK QTC, the Polish radio amateurs'
journal, with the support of Polski
Związek Krótkofalowców (PZK), the Polish Amateur Radio Union
and Poland's IARU member-society. Amateur Radio operators may qualify for the
World Amateur Radio Day 2005 Award for making 10 QSOs on HF or 5 QSOs on VHF
during on World Amateur Radio Day, April 18, 2005, UTC. An application consists
of a log extract showing the list of stations worked to: MK QTC, the Radio Amateurs' Journal,
Suchacz-Zamek, Wielmozy 5b 82-340 Tolkmicko, Poland, by May 31, 2005. Include
$5 (US) or €5 for a color certificate. Shortwave listeners also are eligible
for the World Amateur Radio Day 2005 Award by logging the same number of contacts.
For more information, contact MK QTC
Editor in Chief Sylwester Jarkiewicz, SP2FAP, qtc@post.pl.
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