Wireless Institute of Australia Highlights Concerns Regarding IARU Restructuring Plan

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The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) released a statement earlier this week highlighting concerns regarding the proposal to restructure the IARU into a single entity. While WIA acknowledged many benefits to the proposed changes, there were several areas WIA considered drawbacks. Concerns included potential risk of regional underrepresentation, financial implications, and increased administration requirements.

WIA also voiced proposed remedies to their concerns including regional specific advisory groups, flexible fee structures, and safeguards around virtual participation, among others.

The WIA remains committed to the mission and success of the IARU. However, unless and until our concerns are addresses in detail we are not in favour of the proposal as it is currently presented.

A copy of the full WIA response is available for download (PDF).

Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty to FCC

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Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty to FCC

The Senate has confirmed Olivia Trusty, a Republican nominated by President Trump, to the Federal Communications Commission. Once sworn in, Trusty will shift the FCC to a 2-1 Republican majority.

The simultaneous resignations earlier this month of Republican Commissioner Nathan Simington and Democratic Commissioner Geoffrey Starks left the agency without a quorum and in a 1-1 party tie.

Trusty’s nomination was confirmed Tuesday 17th June 2025, by a 53-45 vote, mostly along party lines.

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ARRL Announces Logbook of The World® Systems Upgrade

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ARRL’s Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) is the 2nd most popular benefit among members. It is also an extremely popular service internationally for non-members, as it is the primary means for providing confirmations for ARRL Awards, such as DXCC and Worked All States.

As a part of the ongoing modernization of the ARRL systems infrastructure, LoTW will be receiving major upgrades to the operating system it is running on, the relational database system it uses to store and access logbook and awards data, and server hosting, where it will be fully migrated to the cloud. These changes will, among other improvements, ensure LoTW performance needs can be better met based on user demand.

LoTW will be unavailable from 27th June 2025 to 2nd July 2025, to complete these upgrades. We will bring LoTW back online if it is available sooner than 2nd July 2025.

Logbook of The World can be found at http://www.lotw.arrl.org.