If you received your 1L licences in the batch issued on June 12, 2019, it’s time to renew them! To ensure your 1L licence remains active, please send us your current licence issued by your home licensing authority.
Your 1L licence will meanwhile remain valid as long as your home reference licence is still the same as the one referred to on your 1L licence.
The ham spirit, often referred to as the essence of amateur radio, encapsulates a set of values and principles that guide the behavior and interactions of radio amateurs worldwide. It’s a culture characterized by friendliness, cooperation, respect, continuous learning, and public service. At its core, the ham spirit fosters a sense of camaraderie and inclusivity, welcoming individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives into the world of amateur radio.
As members of the Liberland Amateur Radio Association (LARA), we wholeheartedly embrace the ham spirit and strive to embody its principles in all aspects of our organization. While LARA acknowledges the existence of Liberland we recognize the sensitivity surrounding its political context. Therefore, our focus remains on fostering a community centered around amateur radio, rather than engaging in political debates or controversies.
At LARA, our mission is clear: to unite radio amateurs who share an interest in the Liberland project and in exploring exotic DXCC countries. We are an inclusive organization that welcomes individuals from all nationalities and political affiliations, fostering an environment where diversity is celebrated and mutual respect is paramount.
Within the framework of the ham spirit, LARA prioritizes friendship, cooperation, and public service. We actively engage in activities that promote positive aspects of amateur radio, including providing communications support during emergencies and public service events. Through mentorship and collaboration, we empower our members to continually expand their knowledge and skills, contributing to the growth and vitality of the amateur radio community.
As ambassadors of the ham spirit, LARA members are committed to upholding the values of inclusivity, respect, and cooperation. We invite amateur radio operators from around the world to join us and build connections that transcend borders and political boundaries.
Together, let us honor the rich tradition of amateur radio and forge lasting friendships that exemplify the true essence of the ham spirit.
73 and best regards, Gregor Kocar, 1L4K LARA manager
We are informing you that weather and river monitoring services are now moved to our parther and newly established organisation LEO Liberland Environmental Organisation – https://leo.ll.land/ Links in menu are now pointing to that side.
In the future we will continue cooperating with LEO and other relavant Liberlandian organisations.
We are also looking at situation in Liberland and will notify you if it changes and inform you about upcoming events.
Due to recent events and hostile behaviour from Croatian forestry company and Croatian authorities that allowed stealing of private property we advise against bringing any radio equipment to Liberland. It is likely it will be stolen and thieves protected by police, if you want to protect your own property from being stolen.
Until further notice operating from Liberland is advised to be postponed until situation will become more clear and predictable.
I would like to inform you that recent progress in ability of accessing the Liberland territory has also lead to reactivation of LARA. This means LARA got new purpose and 1L prefix will finally be able to be used by amateur radio operators to activate Liberland on radio waves.
In LARA we are still looking for volunteers to form a proper council and redistribute tasks. If someone is willing to join the council, feel free to contact us.
I will do my best to respond all pending membership requests as soon as possible. As for radio amateur licences goes, I will also issue them to members who haven’t received them already. Most of already issued licences expires next year in June, so then you will be able to prolong them. If someone had already renewed their primary licence from your home country, please notify me, so I can correct that in database.
Among some early members of LARA we are discussing about activation on the land itself. We will be happy any of our members to join as well. You can contact me via mail or via Facebook.
Since 1L prefix and Liberland is not well known among radio amateur community I also invite you to spread the message about our existence and our mission. Share it on forums, your local radio clubs and associations etc. That way we can spread awareness and reduce confusion and suspicion.
Since we don’t want to be seen as radio pirates, we also have Callbook, which can be used to check which 1L callsign is assigned to which other already existing callsign. We don’t provide names or any other personal info about our members publicly due to privacy concerns. But callbook should be enough to figure out who is standing behind certain callsign.
For now we will continue issuing 1L callsigns only to existing holders of amateur licences in their respective countries, as we don’t have means yet to train new ham radio operators.
When using 1L callsign I’m asking you to follow well known rules and guidelines among HAM community. 1L callsign should be only used from inside the Liberland proper, since Liberland is not member of CEPT agreement. It is anyway allowed to use your existing callsign while operating from Liberland proper, by adding 1L/ in front of your callsign e.g. 1L/N1MM. We should also follow bandplans of Croatia and Serbia.
Accessing Liberland
Official border between Croatia and Liberland hasn’t been properly established yet, due to fact that Croatia hasn’t yet recognised Liberland, so there is a certain procedure to access the land. First of all you should announce your arrival https://border.liberland.org then follow a guidelines provided by Liberland govt. As of writing this, there are 2 main ways how to access Liberland: by land or by boat. Accessing Liberland by land is for now only allowed by foot or on bicycle from this starting point (45.809342, 18.817596). There is another way: going there by boat which is organised twice a day from Batina marina (Cro). You should have Schengen residency or visa to access Liberland since you will be entering from Croatia. Also note that Croatian authorities can check your identity any time while being around or in Liberland proper.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
It’s a pleasure to announce that first Liberland Amateur Radio licences has been issued to our 29 members. Congratulations to all and may your new callsigns serve you well.
As you probably know Liberland is still not fully recognized among other countries and isn’t member of ITU – International Telecommunication Union. Despite this fact our members are encouraged to follow international and local regulations that deal with radio communications. In order to receive a licence and with that a 1L callsign, member of LARA has to be licenced amateur radio operator in his home country or any other country, that is member of ITU. This ensures that people are already educated about technical and operational skills and knowledge that is needed in order to operate amateur radio station.
Liberland Amateur Radio licence is linked to existing amateur radio licence that operator already have, giving them 1L callsign and right to operate from Free Republic of Liberland. Liberland Amateur Radio licence is only valid with presence of reference licence (previously existing one).
LARA provides Callbook where you can query 1L callsigns and check what is operator’s reference callsign. No other personal information is publicly available through callbook to preserve privacy of our members.
Liberland Amateur Radio licences are equipped with QR code that links to web service (cra.lara.ll.land) where authenticity and validity of licence can be checked.
Licencees are encouraged to respect regulations and ham spirit while operating on the band.
I would like to invite you to join newly formed non-profit organization called LARA – Liberland Amateur Radio Association, where our aim is to create society of amateur radio (hamradio) operators, techincal enthusiasts and civil defence members from all corners of the globe. Organization which is based in also quiet newly formed country of the world – Liberland, has been created out of interest of group of people who wanted to create new and more conneced worldwide community of amateur radio operators and techincal enthusiasts.
LARA and its purpose
Purposes of LARA are firstly to represent Liberlandian Radio Amateurs in relation to other organisations inside Liberland and abroad, to form a society where our goals are techincal educating of our members and mutual assistance between each other based on friendly relations. Secondly our purpose is to participate in emergency & rescue operations when our assistence is needed. Thirdly to organize or co-organize activities like radio contests, tech meetings, etc.
We also seek connections with other amateur radio organizations worldwide.
LARA and Liberland
LARA is based in Liberland, which goes hand in hand with amateur radio philosophy – to connect people independantly of their location. Liberland is a new country and also new nation in creation, whose people come together from different parts of the world, to create new community, which is uniquely formed and not necessarily bonded to its geographical borders. Therefore for such widespread nation there is a need to communicate on long distances, educate among ourselves about technology and science and in case of emergencies offer our support.
LARA is still in process of forming it’s council, so we would also like to invite you, if you are interested, to join its council. Please contact us for further information regarding this.
Each country or separate territory have it’s own prefix, so the most logical thing to do was to select prefix for Liberland. Prefixes are usually assigned by ITU – International Telecommunication Union, but since Liberland is not yet member of ITU, we decided that we will adopt temporary prefix for use till or if Liberland will become member of ITU. We will also put efforts that prefix would become recognized by some international organization like IARU, CEPT or ARRL.
There are already cases of such types prefixes being used on radio bands, so our ham society isn’t first that went through same path. Most known examples of them are:
S0 – Westrn Sahara
1A – Knights of Malta (SMOM)
1S – Spratly Islands
1M – Minerva Reef
After some time and consults, we have chosen prefix for Liberland. It’s our pleasure to announce that official temporary radio prefix for Liberland is: 1L
Disclaimer: Callsigns with prefix 1L will be issued by LARA and can be used only inside territory of Republic of Liberland. Usage outside of Liberland is not advised and should be in accordance with local laws and regulations of country radio station is operating from. LARA doesn’t take any responsibility for operating in conflict with the law.
On 29 April 2015, there have been new article published on portal dxcoffee.com which is dedicated to DX-ing. It describes newly created country – Liberland and potential to become possibly next DXCC country. Later on (25 May 2015) article was updated with answer to letter that Gregor (S53SL/1L4K) have sent to IARU president about operating from Liberland.
Attention LARA Members 
Check the validity of your licence on the callbook (E meaning expired):
Purposes of LARA are firstly to represent Liberlandian Radio Amateurs in relation to other organisations inside Liberland and abroad, to form a society where our goals are techincal educating of our members and 
