Every year on April 18, an unofficial holiday of intellectual hobby is celebrated – World radio amateur day. The date of the celebration was chosen in honor of the day of creation of the International Union of Radio Amateurs, which took place on this day in 1925 in Paris.

purpose Day of the radio amateur there is the involvement of like-minded people and specialists in the field of technologies in joint development, inventions and research; summary of achievements; popularization of amateur radio activity.

Thanks to the efforts of radio amateurs, the world saw many technologies, such as, for example, the first communication mode – AMTOR, which allowed high-quality transmission of text information.