Amateur Radio: Difference between revisions

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An outdoor Amateur Radio Station (G3KMI) with a range of transceivers.

Amateur Radio is the hobby of using designated Frequency bands to communicate with other licensed Radio Amateurs around the world. This can be for experimentation, training, or just a good chat with someone thousands of miles away! Amateur Radio also provides a service, aiding emergency services with communication networks whenever need arises.

More Information for newcomers to the hobby can be found at the Radio Society of Great Britain.

A great introduction to the 'DIY Magic' of Amateur Radio by the ARRL can be found on YouTube here.

For information on Amateur Radio Licensing, click here.

Club Activity

We are a young club, so we are pursuing anything suggested by our members and trying new ideas whenever we can. Many of our members are freshly licensed so we have yet to try everything!

Operating as our Club Station, G3KMI, we have so far participated in the following:

HF (mainly 20m)
- SSB DX
- PSK31 DX
- SSTV
2m (144 MHz)
- FM Simplex
- DSSTV nets
- Local Repeater nets

Radio details

Details of club members' and recommended radios can be found under the relevant link below.

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 Amateur Radio is the hobby of using designated Frequency bands to communicate with other licensed Radio Amateurs around the world. This can be for experimentation, training, or just a good chat with someone thousands of miles away! Amateur Radio also provides a service, aiding emergency services with communication networks whenever need arises.
-More Info at [http://www.rsgb.org/newcomers/ rsgb.org]
+More Information for newcomers to the hobby can be found at the [http://www.rsgb.org/newcomers/ Radio Society of Great Britain].
-Wikipedia article can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio here].
+A great introduction to the 'DIY Magic' of Amateur Radio by the [http://www.arrl.org/ ARRL] can be found on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDwVhx7miQ here].
+For information on Amateur Radio Licensing, click [[Amateur_Radio_Licensing|here]].
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 ** [[Repeaters | Local Repeater]] nets
-== Licensing ==
+== Radio details ==
+Details of club members' and recommended radios can be found under the relevant link below.
-In order to transmit on the Amateur Radio frequency bands, you would need to obtain an Amateur Radio License. In the UK these are managed by [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/ Ofcom], however the Qualification for these is obtained by a set of Examinations, both written and practical, that are run by Local Clubs under the authority of the [http://www.rsgb.org/arls/ RSGB].
-For more information on the relevant Licenses and how they can be obtained, click [[Amateur_Radio_Licensing|here]].
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