International Air Ambulance Week 2017

This year's International Air Ambulance Week will take place between 9th -17th September 2017, with the focus on supporting and generating donations for flying medical services around the world.

The event covers two weekends, giving amateurs a great chance to get involved and support the event.

Whilst Amateur Radio Operators/Stations are encouraged to promote the donation causes, it is requested that any donations generated go to the stations chosen a local or national cause.

Registration will be mandatory and all stations taking part will be issued a registration number which will be listed on this website. The registered number needs to be quoted by each station regularly. Included in the list alongside each registered station will be a clickable link enabling those wishing to donate, to donate directly to the charity of the service they wish to support.

The event is primarily intended to help support public donation funded flying medical services, whether part or entirely donation funded, though not restricted entirely to those. The location of the special event station can be anywhere you choose to set it up – club, home or if you can manage the permissions to do it, a public place.

No costs will be involved in registering or taking part and a free series of Awards will be available for those who support the event as detailed 

• An award for having registered and taken part in the event.
• A Bronze award for having logged a minimum of 5 IAW station.
• A Silver award for having logged a minimum of 10 IAW station.
• A Gold award for having logged a minimum of 15 IAW station.

Awards for SWL will follow the above requirements. More than one award may be claimed.

The event’s date has been set to coincide with the UK’s own funding drive week for its own helicopter ambulance services. Almost all of these, around 30 in number, are entirely public donation funded.

The event is intended to commence on the fourth weekend of September annually and is to be run by the same team which operates the well established International Museum Weekends.

International Air Ambulance Week Website - http://www.radio-amateur-events.org/IAW/

Tipperary Group Active for ILLW

Tipperary Amateur Radio Group will activate Ballinacourty Lighthouse ILLW (Ref IE0018) on Saturday and Sunday 19th & 20th August 2017 as part of the 20th International Lighthouse & Lightship weekend.

Ballinacourty Lighthouse is located on the south coast of Ireland in County Waterford. The light at Ballinacourty was first established on 1st July 1858.

The club will use the callsign EI7T for the activation.

EI7TRG Club website - http://www.ei7trg.ie

YOTA 2017 Summer Event

The annual IARU Region 1 Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) summer event will take place at Gilwell Park on the outskirts of London in the UK during the week of 5 to 12 August 2017.

This year's YOTA camp has been organised to enable 80 young people from 30 different countries to come together to experience a range of amateur radio activities such as antenna building, portable operation, direction finding, kit building and operating the multi-station special event station GB17YOTA.

With excursions to Bletchley Park, the National Radio Centre and the Science Museum in London, it is certainly going to be an eventful week.

Annually this event brings together youngsters from different nationalities to create, in addition to amateur radio, an opportunity to learn all about different cultures, foster international friendships and goodwill as well as learn new skills.

Youngsters on the Air - https://www.ham-yota.com/