The ITU has updated a key recommendation for cross border usage of Emergency Communications Equipment.
The new 2019 edition of ITU Recommendation M-1637 is clearer regarding countries facilitating the use of radio equipment that may be physically brought by visiting relief personnel into the territory where there is a disaster or emergency.
The recommendation is intended to avoid delays due to customs procedures and type-approvals, etc and facilitate the use of both professional, as well as amateur, radio equipment in such situations.
Link to the document: https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1637-1-201901-I
CARS has just been informed that the 5B4AKV DMR repeater currently operating in Nicosia has received some major improvements over the past few days.
The Cyprus Amateur Radio Society wishes 
Cyprus (5B) is ready to join Summits On The Air (SOTA) on 1st of February 2019.
IARU-R1 announced that in 2019 the YOTA Youth Sked project will begin again, with the main objective of gathering youngsters on the amateur radio bands. The Net will be held every fourth Thursday of each month from 19:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC (21:00-00:00 local Cyprus time), and every month there will be a different group of youngsters that will act as a net control.
With the introduction of a new law in 2018 affecting the running of Associations and Institutions in Cyprus, CARS has been requested to review the Society constitution.
The Cyprus Amateur Radio Society
