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Réseau Luxembourgeois des Amateurs d'Ondes Courtes

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Radioamateurs du Luxembourg
AbbreviationRL
TypeNon-profit organization
PurposeAdvocacy, Education
Location
Region served
Luxembourg
Official language
Luxembourgish, French, German, English
President
Mich Friederich LX1KQ
AffiliationsInternational Amateur Radio Union
Websitehttp://www.rlx.lu/

The Radioamateurs du Luxembourg (RL) (in English, Luxembourg Amateur Radio Society), originally founded in 1937 as Réseau Luxembourgeois des Amateurs d'Ondes Courtes (Luxembourg Network of Shortwave Radio Amateurs), is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Luxembourg. RL supports amateur radio operators in Luxembourg by operating the RL QSL Bureau (http://www.qsl.rlx.lu)[1][2] for those members who regularly communicate with amateur radio operators in other countries, sponsoring amateur radio operating awards and radio contests, and supporting radio propagation beacons in Luxembourg. RL represents the interests of amateur radio operators in Luxembourg before local and international telecommunications regulatory authorities.[3] RL is the national member society representing Luxembourg in the International Amateur Radio Union.[4]

Representatives from Luxembourg were involved in the 1924 call for the International Amateur Congress that founded the IARU in 1925.[5]

References

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  1. ^ RL QSL Bureau
  2. ^ IARU QSL bureaus. "IARU QSL bureaus". Retrieved Dec. 10, 2014.
  3. ^ Radioamateurs du Luxembourg. Radioamateurs du Luxembourg official web site. Retrieved Aug. 8, 2008.
  4. ^ International Amateur Radio Union (2008). "Member Societies". Retrieved Aug. 1, 2008.
  5. ^ IARU 75th Anniversary, 18 April 2000 Archived 14 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine IARUWeb, No. 180, March 15, 2000