W100AW active for ARRL's Centennial Year

The FCC has authorized the Maxim Memorial Station W1AW to also use the call sign W100AW during 2014, the ARRL's centennial year.

Contacts made from the Maxim Memorial Station in Newington, from regional Centennial conventions, and during the IARU HF Championship will use W100AW, with portable designators as appropriate.

The "W1AW WAS" operations throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will use W1AW, not W100AW.

Bulletins and code practice transmissions during 2014 also will still use W1AW. Contacts with W100AW are worth 100 points in the ARRL Centennial QSO Party.

ARRL Centennial QSO Party - http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party

Limerick Radio Club Special Event Callsign EI4LCC

Limerick City is honoured and delighted to be Ireland's first National City of Culture 2014.

To celebrate the event, members of Limerick Radio Club will air EI14LCC, Limerick City of Culture 2014, during 2014 from their own QTH and from various locations within Limerick.

The Limerick Radio Club rally will take place at the Radisson Hotel on Sunday 9 March 2014.

Youngsters On The Air Finland 2014

During the summer of 2014, a youth radio camp 'Youngsters on the Air' will be held in Finland, organized by the Finnish Amateur Radio League

During this week teams of young radio amateurs from 15 different European countries will be participating during different activities: presentations, competitions, visiting radio stations, workshops, ARDF etc…

As three previous events in Romania, Belgium/Netherlands and Estonia have shown, for the young HAM’s it will be a great experience they will never forget.

When: 15-22 July 2014

Participants: 15 teams from different European member associations of IARU R1. A team consists of a team leader, who could be an older person over 18, and 4 team members between 15-25 years old.

Location: Virrat, Finland. - http://www.marttinen.fi/en/sijainti

Fees: part of travel costs (calculated with a distance calculator by the European Commission), plus participation fee €50 per person. All other costs (accommodation, food, activities) will be covered by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission.

If your member society is interested to participate, please respond by 31st January 2014, as the full application should be ready for 15.03.2014. For questions and where to send the application, download the invitation document - http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=173&func=fileinfo&id=498

Source IARU Region 1 - http://www.iaru-r1.org/

Youngsters On The Air - http://www.ham-yota.eu/