• IARU Member-Societies Ratify Leadership Nominations, to Consider New Members

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Fri May 17 17:37:17 2019
    05/17/2019

    The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU[1]) member-societies on May 3 completed voting to ratify the nominations of IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH/G4HUA, and Vice President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, to new terms. With 57 affirmative votes required for ratification, Ellam received 75 votes, and Garpestad received 74 votes.

    Applications for IARU membership have been received via IARU Region 1 from the Saudi Amateur Radio Society (SARS[2]) and the Seychelles Amateur Radio Association (SARA). As of January 2019, there were 66 members out of a total of 479 licensed radio amateurs in Saudi Arabia. SARA has six members, two of whom are licensed. It is believed that there are four licensed amateurs in Seychelles. Voting will close on October 9.


    [1] http://www.iaru.org
    [2] http://www.arsr.sa/

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