{"id":703,"date":"2025-04-29T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/?p=703"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:50:01","slug":"international-amateur-radio-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/international-amateur-radio-union\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Amateur Radio Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The International Amateur Radio Union\u00a0is the <strong>worldwide federation<\/strong> of <strong>national amateur radio organizations<\/strong>. The IARU provides a forum for common matters of concern to <strong>amateur radio operators worldwide<\/strong> and collectively represents these matters to the <strong>International Telecommunications Union<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The membership of the&nbsp;<strong>IARU<\/strong>&nbsp;is comprised of more than <strong>160 member societies<\/strong> in as many countries and separate territories. In Canada that society is the <strong>Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>IARU<\/strong> was founded in <strong>1925<\/strong> and celebrated their <strong>100th anniversary<\/strong> in February of this year so we thought this a good time to mention them. <strong>Tim Ellam, VE6SH<\/strong>, currently serves as the <strong>president<\/strong> of the IARU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See the IARU website here for more info on them and their activities on our behalf.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Amateur Radio Union\u00a0is the worldwide federation of national amateur radio organizations. The IARU provides a forum for common matters of concern to amateur radio operators worldwide and collectively represents these matters to the International Telecommunications Union. The membership &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/international-amateur-radio-union\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}