International holidays - World Amateur Radio Day

Radio is one of the outstanding inventions. In the twenty-first century digital age, you might think that radio has faded into the background. But it is not so. In our time, it remains very relevant. Many people who are passionate about radio engineering and radio communications can be found all over the world. This wonderful holiday exists for them - World Amateur Radio Day. Another name for the holiday is International Amateur Radio Day. It is celebrated annually around the world on April 18th. It is not considered an official day and is not a non-working day in any country. However, it is celebrated by people who are passionate about amateur radio, whose hobby or profession is radio engineering and radio communications. There are many such people all over the planet. Radio Amateur Day is celebrated in approximately 200 countries. The holiday began its existence in 1925. It was this year, on April 18, in France, in the city of Paris, that the International Amateur Radio Union was founded. The founders of this union were people interested in radio communications. The purpose of its creation was to unite people around the world who are partial to radio. In those distant times, doing amateur radio communications, collecting radio circuits and communicating with each other on the radio was something grandiose, out of the realm of science fiction. In less than 100 years, radio communications have made huge strides forward. At first there were primitive technologies that required the use of a spark discharge. Now digital processing is taking place, there is Internet radio, which does not require either a transmitter or a receiver to transmit a signal. Radio communication enthusiasts to this day communicate with each other over the air on short waves, being in different parts of the Earth. This is very exciting and unusual, even in times of cellular communications and the Internet. In many countries there are amateur radio unions, which, in turn, can be awarded the honor of joining the International Union of Radio Amateurs. So in Russia there is such a union of amateur radio. It was founded in 1992, and was admitted to the International Union in 1994. It is also noteworthy that every year Radio Amateur Day is celebrated under different mottos, thereby providing various topics for discussion in radio clubs and the exchange of experience. So, for example, in 2010 they remembered the sixties. It was then that artificial amateur radio satellites were first launched into Earth orbit. The next year there was another, no less interesting topic - the first social network based on amateur radio technology. Amateur radio operators have contributed much to professional radio communications and have been pioneers in many of today's communications advances.