RAL 57th Anniversary
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- Published on Saturday, 21 November 2009 18:02
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Radio Amateurs of Lebanon (RAL) celebrated today, November 21, 2009 its 57th anniversary at the RAL Headquarters in the presence of RAL members of guests.
Pictures from the event are posted in the RAL photo Gallery.
OD5F - Sixth Francophone Games Amateur Radio Special Event Station
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 10:21
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Lebanon will be hosting the Sixth Francophone Games, which will be held in Beirut from 27th of September to 6th of October 2009. The Radio Amateur of Lebanon (RAL) will be sponsoring a special event Amateur Radio Station “OD5F” from September 26 till October 31, 2009 commemorating the event.
The Francophone games are held every 4 years, with the participation of 3,000+ athletes, youths and artists from 56 French speaking countries and 14 observer countries. It is a popular sports and art festival. 
QSLs will be handled by the RAL QSL bureau. RAL will have a special QSL card for the event.
If you like to participate or have more information on OD5F operation, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
You can also follow the games on Twitter, Youtube and Facebook .
Click here to see the related TV commercial in French or Arabic
Dinner gathering hosted by OD5OT
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- Published on Saturday, 01 August 2009 17:00
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OD5OT - Hassan's vacation in Lebanon was crowned with a gathering at Maysoun Restaurant on July 28, 2009. Among the Hams and SWLs who responded to the invitation are: OD5ET - Joe, OD5HP - Amin, OD5KM - George, OD5KU - Elie, OD5OT - Hassan, OD5PN - Jamil, OD5TE - Hani, OD5QB - George, OD5TX - Michel, OD5YL - Louisette and Eddy (SWL). Pictures from the event are available in the RAL Photo Album. Hassan is back in Dubai and will be missed among us.
The 2009 Ham Radio at Friedrichshafen
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- Published on Thursday, 02 July 2009 16:44
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The 2009 Ham Radio at Friedrichshafen, Germany, ended with official attendance figures at 17,400. RAL president OD5TE-Hani in his role as IARU Region 1 Executive committee member attended the Exhibition from June 26 to 28, 2009. The trip started with a stop in Zurich hosted by HB9JOE - Andy and HB9ELF - Yvonne that presented OD5TE with a Swiss callsign HB9ERL.
The trip included visits to HB9VC - Swissair Amateur Radio Club, HB5FE - Swiss Air Force Amateur Radio Club. HB9W meeting.
At the Ham Radio Exhibition in Friedrichshafen Dr. Larry Price - W4RA named President Emeritus of IARU and IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Coordinator DK2OM - Wolf received recognition for his outstanding contribution in the defense of the Amateur Radio spectrum.
More information are available on the IARU Region 1 Homepage.
World Flora Fauna (WFF) GreenDays 2009
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- Published on Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:50
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Radio Amateurs of Lebanon (RAL) in coordination with the Municipality of Zgharta activated Ehden Natural Reserve on June 13-14, 2009 during the World Flora Fauna (WFF) GreenDays 2009 with a special callsign OD5WFF.
Participant included: KC2UHM - Dean, OD5KU - Elie, OD5RW - John, OD5SB - Rami, OD5TE - Hani, OD5YU - Sudad. The participants had a great time at the event operating all bands and testing various radios and antennas. Check the pictures from the event.
IARU Region 1 Launches a new website
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- Published on Sunday, 19 April 2009 07:16
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On the accasion of the World Amateur Radio Day, The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU Region 1) unveiled a fully redesigned Homepage that offers a lot of functionalities and will allow various IARU Region 1 Working Groups to post and edit news.
The IARU Region 1 Homepage, also offers a forum that brings the ham community together in discussions related to Amateur Radio.
IARU Region 1 page registration is open to all the Hams. Visit www.iaru-r1.org and register today.
World Amateur Radio Day 2009
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- Published on Sunday, 19 April 2009 06:46
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On the occasion of the World Amateur Radio Day, Al-Balad Local newspaper has released a full page article (Download in pdf) describing Amateur Radio and its benefits in the Emergency Services. (Go to article here).
Global Simulated Emergency Test - 18 April 2009 - 14:00 -18:00 Beirut Time
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- Published on Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:45
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The final rules for the GlobalSET exercise can now be downloaded from http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalSETApr09Rules-english.pdf
The message format used is the IARU HF Emergency Operating Procedure which can be found at http://www.iaru-r1.org/HFEmergOpProc.htm
A message form which shows the format to use is available at http://www.iaru-r1.org/IARU-msg1.pdf
With a sample sheet at http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalSETLog-example.pdf
Greeting from Santa 2008
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- Published on Sunday, 21 December 2008 11:51
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The Radio Amateurs of Lebanon Association (RAL) in association with Besancon Baabdat, St. Charbel Orphanage home, and Caritas Lebanon (children from India, Iraq, and Sudan), have completed this year’s “Greetings from Santa” event. Amazing activities at three different locations, touching over 120 boys and girls.
The event involved Amateur Radio operators’ setting up amateur radio stations, allowing children to talk to Santa Claus in the North Pole during a break in his busy gift-production schedule, in a warm Christmas decorated environment.
Radio Amateurs gave the children the thrill of their lives talking with “Santa” via Amateur radio. It was thrilling to the children, hearing the "Santa" voice and be able to ask him all sorts of questions. "Santa" in his discussions, reinforced some basic values and reminded the children to continue to be good and love each other.
Special thanks to the dedicated Santa Team: KC2UHM – Dean, OD5MM – Irma (event coordinator), OD5RI – Riri, OD5RW – John (Santa), OD5TE – Hani and OD5UX – Mario.
Amateur Radio on Al 'An TV
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- Published on Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:48
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OD5YL - Louisette (RAL Executive Committee member) in TV Interview promoting Amateur Radio on Al 'AN Satellite TV in May 2008 (Reporter: Ms. Jihane Al Awar).
Arab Societies secure a seat on the IARU R1 Executive Committee
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 10:57
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At the 21st Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 1 General conference in Cavtat, Croatia, Arab member societies successfully secured a seat in the IARU Region 1 Executive Committee repressing 92 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. OD5TE – Hani will be on the Executive committee for a 3 years term receiving the highest number of votes among other members. This would have not been possible without the extraordinary work done by the Arab Societies and especially of the participating delegates: 7X2RO – Afif, A41KB – Abdullah, A41LK – Fahd, A61M – Mohammed, DL1BDF – Mustafa, OD5RI - Riri, OD5TE – Hani, SU1KM – Mohamed, IARS Iraq (by Proxy). Other member societies have endorsed OD5TE to be on the executive committee.
Total voting Societies including proxies were 50 and the final results were as follows:
President: Hans Blondeel Timmerman – PB2T
Vice President: Mustafa Diop – 6W1KI
Secretary: Dennis Green – ZS4BS
Treasurer: Andreas Thiemann – HB9JOE
Members: Panayot Danev – LZ1US (32 Votes)
Betty Magnin – F6IOC (36 Votes)
Nikola Percin – 9A5W (33 Votes)
Hani Raad – OD5TE (39 Votes)
Colin Thomas – G3PSM (24 Votes)
Congratulations to all on such an achievement that was only possible when being aligned and working together. Radio Amateurs of Lebanon (RAL) Executive Committee and its members extends it sincere appreciation to the Arab Societies and the rest of IARU Region 1 society members for the trust and support given to its president, OD5TE – Hani to represent them on the IARU Region 1 Executive Committee.
Sun City, South Africa will host the next IARU Region 1 Conference in 2011.
OD5RI Elected as IARU R1 IPHA Coordinator
Congratulations are in order to OD5RI- Riri for being re-elected at the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 General Conference, as the Information Programme for Handicapped Amateurs (IPHA) coordinator for the next 3 years.
We are proud of this achievement and wish Riri the best wishes and success as the IPHA coordinator and looking forward for the Arab Amateur Radio Societies to have an active role in the program and support Riri in his task.