>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:57:12 -0400 >Organization: Radio Amateurs of Canada >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 > Thunderbird/11.0 >Subject: [RAC-Bulletin] [IARU-R2-News 170] Special event stations WARD 2012 >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rac-bulletins-leave@xxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Id: <rac-bulletins@xxxxxxx> >From: rac-bulletins@xxxxxxx >Reply-to: rachq@xxxxxx >To: Steve Cutway VE3KC <ve3kc@xxxxxx> > > >[IARU-R2-News 170] Special event stations WARD 2012 >2012-03-21 > >On April 18, 2012 we will celebrate the World >Amateur Radio Day on the 87th Anniversary of the >founding of the International Amateur Radio Union, IARU. > >This year's theme for the World Amateur Radio >Day is "Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 >Years in Space" in remembrance the launching of >OSCAR 1 on December 12, 1961 and the launch of OSCAR 2 on June 2, 1962. > >For this reason there will be several special >event stations from IARU's Member Societies >active on different dates during April: 6H6IARU, 3G73IARU and LZ1WARD. > >If IARU's Member Societies plan to have a >special event station for this reason in April >let us now so we can publish the details before >the end of this month. Send us an email to >news@xxxxxxxxxxx with the information. > >Joaquín Solana, XE1R >News Editor - IARU R2 >news@xxxxxxxxxxx > >**----** > >Vernon Ikeda - VE2MBS/VE2QQ >Pointe-Claire, Québec >RAC Blog Editor/RAC E-News/Web News Bulletin Editor > >-- > > * * * * > > > > >---------- >You are receiving this bulletin because you are >subscribed to an electronic mailing list. For >more information or to change your subscription >please visit: http://rac.eton.ca/racbullemail.htm