On the airwaves of success
RANDBURG – Hammies Amateur Radio Club boasts five new amateur radio operators who are set to take over the airwaves.
Hammies Radio Amateur Club celebrated the success of five of their radio amateurs who recently received their licences.
The radio amateurs passed their radio amateur’s examination and now have class B licences. This means they are now able to come up on air and speak to other radio hams across town, and around the country.
These radio enthusiasts are Dylan Booth (14), Joshua Kehlert (13), Jason Nel (12), Ryan May (12) and Alex Maynard (11). Since obtaining their radio amateur licences, the boys have taken part in a few activities including an electronics building project where they were taught how to use a transistor as a switch and what a light dependent resistor does. They used these components as well as some others to build a project where the transistor switches on a LED in the absence of natural or artificial light.
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Educational coordinator, Grey Maynard said they also built antennas to use. “The boys, along with other members of the club also took part in a competition that encouraged young radio amateurs to contact as many other young radio amateurs.”
These fellow amateurs were from around the country and the southern African region and points were allocated for each contact they made contact. Alex won with 61 points, followed by Nathan Bussey with 51 and Robert van der Meulen with 49.
Hammies, as Maynard explained aims to educate children between the ages of nine and 14 to write the Class B amateur radio examination and obtain their Class B radio amateur’s novice licence. The club also provides activities for young radio amateurs to meet other young radio amateurs that they speak to around the greater Johannesburg area in person.
Each ham radio operator is allocated a unique callsign by Icasa which is their unique amateur radio station licence.
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