The Cyprus Amateur Radio Society invites it’s members to a seminar titled: “Licensed. Now what?”, which shall be held online, on Friday 5 Feb 2021, at 21:00.
The seminar aims to provide a general overview of what a newly licensed radio amateur can do on the air. What equipment is available? Where can one source equipment from? Continue reading
The Dept. of Electronic Communications of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works has announced that the next examination for obtaining the Radio Amateur Service Operator Certificate will be held on Monday 18 January 2020, from 12:00 till 14:00, at the Audit Office, (6 Deligiorgi Street, 1406 Nicosia).
All those interested must send their application by Monday, 4 January 2020, including the relevant exam participation fee (based on the Radiocommunications Law of 2004 and 2012), which amounts to €30,00 EUR. Applications forms are available below, or from the DEC website. Continue reading
The Annual Paphos Club Christmas lunch was held on 8 December 2020 at Oulas Cafe Diner, Tala, with a good turnout considering the Covid-19 restrictions and circumstances.
Noz 5B4AIX had the pleasure to announce the Paphos Club aka PRC Ham of the Year Award 2020. Having thanked all those who nominated and voted, he carried on announcing that the most voted person. Continue reading
The importance for radio amateurs to join and be members of their National Societies, and in extension the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), has once again been made evident, closer to home this time.
It seems that a radio amateur, not a member of CARS, had sent a written complaint to the Regulator for Radio Communications in Cyprus, complaining that a number of the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society repeaters were illegal for not meeting European Union Radio Equipment Directive (RED) known as Directive 2014/53/EE, because they are homebrew! The Regulator contacted CARS requesting: Continue reading
CARS will be launching a series of lessons, that aim to cover the syllabus that one needs to cover in order to successfully pass the amateur radio examination.
In the age of Covid-19, social distancing and lockdowns, the lessons will be held via teleconferencing. We shall be utilizing Microsoft Teams for the lessons, graciously provided by our sponsor, Microsoft, as part of it’s worldwide support for non-profit organizations.
The lessons are being offered for free to all those who join the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society, or for a small fee to all those who do not wish to become members. Continue reading
If the Covid-19 pandemic had not taken over the whole world, a Cyprus Amateur Radio Society delegate would be currently be flying to Novi Sad in Serbia for the IARU Region 1 General Conference.
Unfortunately the pandemic is upon us. The IARU Region 1 committee has therefore decided to hold a Virtual General Conference instead, taking place from Sunday 11th to Friday 16th October 2020 using the GoToMeeting platform. Continue reading
I am happy to announce Cyprus’s accession to the “Parks on the Air” (POTA) program.
Parks on the Air (POTA) was founded to encourage amateur-radio operators who enjoy the outdoors — but who may not be interested in or able to take long hikes or make steep climbs — to blend their interests by operating from municipal, county, state, provincial, and national parks around the world.
The program is designed to “promote emergency awareness and communications from national and state/province level parks.” There are more than 150 sites to choose from in Cyprus. See the relevant POTA section of the CARS website for more information. Continue reading
The CARS Nicosia Club organized an ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding) game on Saturday the 20th of June 2020 at the Athalassa National Park. The game had a duration of about 2 hours providing the 5B4NC members the opportunity to meet in person after a long time, in an open space, keeping distance in accordance with the COVID-19 suggested precautions.
As 20th of June happened to be the international kids day, the event gave us the opportunity to play radio with our children as well, and become kids for a while. Continue reading
A new exciting service is being launched by CARS.
Using a fully automated, online registration system, CARS shall be allocating SWL callsigns (for use exclusively for receiving signals).
The service is aimed at persons or students who show an interest in shortwave radio and/or amateur radio, or who may be interested in obtaining an official amateur radio license, but may not have prepared for the HAREC examination yet. Continue reading
Nick 5B4FL on the left
It is with great sadness that the Cyprus amateur radio community mourns the passing of Nick J. Waite, 5B4LF.
“Nick was a big 6m DX’er and instigative in forming the UK Six Metre Group”, remembers G8VR, Kerry. Nick worked many countries on 6 meters while in England and over 200 from Cyprus. Nick was a TV News Engineer.
Nick was also very active within CARS, and had been instrumental in the management of the CARS website for a number of years. He was also handling all CARS communication with radio amateurs wishing to visit Cyprus.
He was a great friend to many and he will be sadly missed. Our deepest condolences to Nick’s family.
