The European Radio Amateurs' Organization is born!

A new organisation has been formed that seeks to unite all amateur radio associations in Europe.. and beyond.

According to their website, EURAO - the European Radio Amateurs' Organization aims to "group all those associations in the old continent, and even around the world, which can not belong to IARU (because of its own limitation of only one association per country)".

The website page continues:
"The original idea, proposed by F5RCS in 2005, is simple and clear: to provide an opportunity to unite efforts of all those radio amateurs' associations that IARU does not support, due to its rigid structure that prevents admiting more than one association per country and in practice has become a true monopoly, more concerned with their own income than promoting the interests of Amateur Radio."

You can read more about EURAO on their website at:
http://www.eurao.org/en/node/54

Our thanks to EA3CIW for alerting us to this item