[SFDXA] Saturday, April 18, is World Amateur Radio Day (WARD). The event

[Bill]

Excerpt from the ARRL Letter:

Special Event Stations to Mark World Amateur Radio Day on April 18

Saturday, April 18, is World Amateur Radio Day 
<http://www.iaru.org/world-amateur-radio-day.html> (WARD). The event

*In preparation for the KP4FD IARU World Amateur Radio Day special event 
operation, Carlos Colon, WP4U, was changing the rotator for a 40 meter 
antenna on April 11, when a solar halo formed. [Luis Gonzalez, NP4RA, 
photo]*

celebrates the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU 
<http://www.iaru.org/>) on April 18, 1925, in Paris, with ARRL 
Co-Founder Hiram Percy Maxim, 1AW, as its first president.

 From the 25 countries that formed the IARU in 1925, the IARU has grown 
to include 160 member-societies in three regions.

Radio amateurs worldwide will take to the airwaves to mark the occasion 
with special event stations. A listing is on the IARU WARD page 
<http://www.iaru.org/world-amateur-radio-day.html>. The IARU encourages 
groups to promote their World Amateur Radio Day activities on social 
media, using the hash tag #WARD2015 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/ward2015> on Twitter and Facebook.