Convergence and hybrid systems.
In the past, all telecommunication was done in analogue mode. When digital communications started, more options became available. In the amateur world, devices appeared that broadcast both in analogue and digital mode. Both systems converged towards each other, both for radio amateurs and in the professional sector.
All leading global brands were present in Cologne and showed the progress they have made with hybrid systems.

This year major commemorations are planned to commemorate the landing of the Allies in Normandy. On June 6th, it will have been 75 years ago that the impetus was given for the destruction of the totalitarian Nazi regime.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary commemoration in 1994, members of the NNV and GBN departments of the UBA, Royal Belgian Amateur Radio Union, started out with an annual expedition to Ranville on the historic Pegasus bridge. Corporal Tappenden landed there with the paratroopers of the British 6th Airborne on the night of 5 to 6 June 1944 near two bridges.



 

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War 1, the UBA received authority from the BIPT for all Belgian Radio-amateurs to use the special OP prefix instead of the usual ON prefix, during the month of November 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018.