Organització Europea de Radioaficionats

The European Radio Amateurs' Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: "hunting beacons". Remember this is not a contest, it is just a radio meeting with a few simple 'rules', better to call them recommendations.

In this issue you will find:

• Eppur si muove: 50-54 MHz still is the EURAO's goal
• CT1BAT new Vice-president of EURAO
• YP-XMAS at the third edition

Santa Claus and his Ham Radio elves are coming back to YO again in 2018 for the third consecutive time. The YP-XMAS callsigns are already a tradition and the Romanian RadioClub Association (ARR) aims again to give to the Radio Community moments of joy around the Winter Holidays.

The European Radio Amateurs' Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: "discover the 60m band". Remember this is not a contest, it is just a radio meeting with a few simple 'rules', better to call them recommendations.

In this issue you will find:

• United Nations granted EURAO special consultative status
• EANET Sprint Contest 2018: for international clubs and hams

Last May, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations recommended special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations to EURAO.

In July, at its Coordination and Management Meeting, ECOSOC endorsed this recommendation, communicating its final decision in early August.

Meeting once a year in Friedrichshafen is a real pleasure and the opportunity to listen others' ideas, share experiences and discuss about common issues. So we did, but instead of waiting in the booth, the president went to the middle of the fair.

Other activities, such as the EURAO's General Assembly and the ID-CCS7 workshop of DR@F for French operators, took place in the booth.

Next year we will see there in June 21-23, 2019.

As a result of data collected for EURAO Parties, a kind of QSO events held once in each season, a database has been created with most popular frequencies, modes and applications.

Now this database is available online, either by computer, mobile or tablet, and you can select easyly the band, the mode and/or the application you would like to consult and get an immediate response.

This is the EURAO Frequency Guide (EFG):

https://eurao.org/efg

In this issue you will find:

• EURAO Frequency Guide: a useful and interactive tool
• HAM RADIO+General Assembly 2018
• ECBF-EURAO partnership: working on a new collaboration