May I remind all those who have still not sent their membership
fees for 2010, that they should do so as soon as possible. Payment instructions
can be found on this page below, with the heading Membership. Would all
those that opt to send their payment through ebank transfer not forget to inform
the CARS Treasurer, Pantelis 5B4CF, otherwise it is impossible for us to know
who sent the payment.
Finally, I would like to inform you that our Society has once again successfully
argued towards the Cyprus Standards Organisation the reasons why our stance
should be supported 100% towards the International Electrotechnical Commission
as far as the standard for the control of Power Line Communication systems. It's
worth noting that we once again had to face the Cyprus Electricity Authority as
the opposite side of the table.
The Dept of Electronic Communications of the Ministry of Communications and
Works has announced that the next examination for a Radio Amateur Licence will
take place in September 2010, please see
Callsigns & Licences page.
5B4AFB SK
I'm very sorry to say that Alf 5B4AFB passed away on 27 April 2010, after a long
fight with cancer. Alf had lived and operated in Cyprus for many years. He was a
keen DXer. RIP.
CARS 2010 AGM
The 2010 CARS AGM was
held on 25 April 2010 at 10am, at the Centre for Sailing Games (KOA). As usual
there was a good attendance of members from Nicosia, Lemesos, Pafos and Larnaka.
Our Society is required to obtain your written permission to post your personal
details in the
CARS Callbook, which until now
has been posted on this website. So would all members please download THIS (a late version
of Acrobat Reader required) and THIS form, sign it
and return it to the Society, at the address at the top of this website. Your
data will not appear on this website until your signed permission has been
received.
All
Licencees
The annual fee for the licence is €25.63
Each year every Amateur must pay to the Ministry the annual fee by 31 January,
or your licence will lapse. It
will then cost €51.26 to re-apply and you will have to produce the proof that you have passed the Cyprus exams, or have a CEPT licence,
or a HAREC certificate, before you are allowed
to operate again.
Send your cheque to Ministry of Communications &
Works, Dept of Electronic Communications, PO Box 24647, Nicosia 1302.
CARS AGM
The
CARS 2008 AGM was held on
Sunday 4 May at 10am at the KOA in Lemesos.
CARS subscriptions are due each
year on 1st January, members are asked to pay for 2010 by sending to The
Treasurer, at the address at the top of this website, a cheque for €20 made out to 'Cyprus
Amateur Radio Society'.
Subscriptions are no longer collected at the local club level.
You may also make a bank transfer
of €20.
Note: If you cannot do an eBank transfer it will be cheapest to go to a
Bank of Cyprus to do the transfer. Here are the details you need. (If you do
the transfer at an Alphabank the account should be written as 055600007317).
To: Bank of Cyprus
Account: 0556-00-007317-00 (for
an eBank
transfer you may have to leave out the hyphens)
Branch: 0556
Name: CYPRUS AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
Transfer details: Your Callsign
Then - VERY IMPORTANT! email
CARS Treasurer Pantelis 5B4CF at
to advise him.
If you need to transfer to our account from abroad, our IBAN number
is CY08 0020 0556 0000 0000 0073 1700 and the bank's SWIFT
address is BCYPCY2N.
If you do
not pay by 31 March you will be automatically deleted from the
membership list (but of course you can rejoin).
If you are active here and not a member please join, representing the
Cyprus Amateur Community to our Government and to the IARU is important, and
without this there is no doubt that we would be subject to far more severe
operating restrictions. Cost to join is only €5, then €20 a year.
You can download a copy of the Membership Application Form HERE Fill
it out, print it and post it to the Secretary.
Akamas DXpedition
The Lemesos Section activated P3CA on 8 July 2007.
Details of this 2m 6m and HF DXpedition can be seen HERE
AS-120 IOTA DXpedition
The Nicosia Section operated from Agios Georgios, one of Cyprus' coastal
islands, during the IOTA Contest of 28 and 29 July 2007, and an extra
day or two before.
2007 AGM
The 2007 AGM was held on Sunday 29 April. Manos 5B4AFQ is our new President
and Nestoras 5B4AHZ our new Secretary. The meeting was also a Constitutional General Meeting,
we discussed proposed changes to the constitution HERE(Gr)
and
HERE (Eng).
HEREis the
Secretary's report and HERE
are some notes to the 2006 accounts.
At last....
The Ministry has upgraded all 5B8 licences to allow them to operate all bands,
rather than VHF and above as before. A new licence will eventually be sent to
the affected amateurs, meanwhile no action is required and they may operate all
bands immmediately.
2006 Annual General Meeting
Paris 5B4XF was elected President, replacing Aris 5B4JE. Nicos 5B4CV stood down
also, and we have new Committee Members Manos 5B4AFQ and Alan 5B4AHJ, who will
also serve as QSL Manager. General Secretary Spyros 5B4MF, Treasurer Pantelis
5B4CF and Members George 5B4KH and Norman 5B8AV agreed to stay on. The minutes
are HERE.
Extraordinary
General Meeting
After Spyros returned from the Davos 2005 IARU conference, an EGM was held on 23
October at the usual location, the KOA in Lemesos. The minutes are HERE.A
report on the conference can be seen HERE.
5B
Discussion Group/E-mail Reflector
You are encouraged to
join the Cyprus Amateur Radio Discussion Group/E-mail Reflector set up on
Yahoo,click on the 5B Discussion Group/Reflector
link. Anything you post there will be emailed to all, anything you email to the
Group will be posted on the Group site as well. You can join on the site, or by
sending a blank e-mail to
The site should not generate any spam for you.
Of course, messages
posted there are individual and may not represent the views of the Society! And,
it was formed for the discussion of Ham Radio, not politics.
2005 AGM and Constitutional General Meeting
The 2005 AGM and Constitutional General Meeting
took place, as planned, on Sunday May 15th.. HERE
are the minutes. It was agreed to make several
changes to CARS structure, and to the constitution. The new constitution can be
be downloaded from the Membership
Page, the main change being that now membership payments will be made direct to
CARS Central.
Expansion
of 40m Band
We may now use 7.1 to 7.2 MHz! In addition to
7.0 to 7.1 of course. This is included in the Cyprus Department of Electronic
Communications website
National Frequency Plan. We join 9A EI G GD GI GJ GM GU GW HB LA OZ T7 TF
ZC4 OK LX HA RA DL EA I and S5 amateurs as
Region 1 users of the expanded band. After 1 April 2009 SV and F also.
New
Licencees
Please advise the QSL Manager when you receive a
new licence, and register your address with
QRZ.COM.
CARS Meeting
The open CARS Central Committee meeting took place as planned on Wednesday 1st
September 2004.
The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the matter of special contest
callsigns and their uses (both by 5B licenced amateurs and by visitors) so as to
come up with a proposal to submit to the Ministry. It was agreed to make a
request to the Ministry for various changes to our licencing conditions,
allowing, amongst other things, CEPT operators to enjoy Multi-op contesting.
CARS AGM 2004
The 2004 AGM took place at 10.15 on Sunday May 30th at the KOA in
Limassol.
There was a ham lunch after the AGM.
WRC03
Besides a resolution regarding expansion of the 40m band there was a resolution
that
Morse code testing is no longer a requirement for amateurs wishing to operate
in the HF bands. It is left up to the discretion of individual administrations whether to require this testing or not.
Full details may be seen HERE.
CW is no longer a requirement for a 5B licence, as of 19 January 2007.
Can you make it to the next Monthly Ham Lunch? See
HERE.
Email addresses on to this website
Email addresses on these pages are now
displayed with a small .jpg or .gif file, to stop 'SpamBots' harvesting them and sending
spam to them. We are also experimenting with
HTML encoding. We used to use JavaScript, which also defeated the SpamBots, but
some browsers will not display this correctly. Email addresses within a .pdf
file will probably not be harvested either.
Archived Documents
You will need Acrobat
Reader. Some of the files are large - up
to 2MB.
from CARS
Secretary Nestoras 5B4AHZ,
and others
to advise him.
The site should not generate any spam for you.
