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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2016/06/09 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Amateur Radio

Year Book Submission

Southampton University Wireless Society (G3KMI) has become a thriving student-led amateur radio club with membership having increased year-on-year since our revival in 2011, after roughly a decade of dormancy. The society runs a busy exam centre, this year having has X people passing amateur radio exams, at a pass rate of 95%. On the 7th December 2015, we held our biggest ever single exam session with Y candidates.

The society regularly runs workshop evenings to give members the opportunity to work on their own projects whilst gaining advice from other members. Over the last few years we have developed a set of straightforward projects ideas for our new members' practical exam work. This has included VFO kits, 2m Slim Jims, 10m antennas and most recently Morse sounders.

We have had many successful society outings and operating sessions this past year. One of the highlights has been tracking the VHF signal from the International Space Station (ISS), in particular during an Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) session where we picked up Tim Peake talking to students at a UK school. We also ran an operating station at the University's open days back in September 2015 as well as its public-engagement Science and Engineering day on the 12th March 2016. This July will be our fourth consecutive year entering a team for the RSGB VHF Field Day.

The society has had an ongoing project to install a rotating antenna array to our Students' Union building to replace the mast we historically had erected on campus. This includes a system of transceivers and control equipment which is planned for installation within a room in the Students' Union to provide a permanent shack for more regular operating sessions. Unfortunately, this project has suffered a number of recent setbacks but we hope to get this back on track over the coming year.

The society, in collaboration with external radio amateurs, has supported the continued development and maintenance the Farnham WebSDR. This antenna array is mounted to an previous MoD communications mast located north of Farnham in Surrey (IO91OF). It can be accessed by anyone with a web browser and covers multiple VHF and UHF amateur radio bands. In particular it is useful for tracking high-altitude balloons as well ISS and satellite passes.

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 ===Year Book Submission===
-Southampton Wireless Society (G3KMI) is now a thriving university amateur radio club and exam centre, having a 95% pass rate for exams this year. On the 7th of December 2015 the society ran the biggest single exam session ever for our members. The number of members joining the society has seen a significant increase over the last year and is forecast to rise.
+Southampton University Wireless Society (G3KMI) has become a thriving student-led amateur radio club with membership having increased year-on-year since our revival in 2011, after roughly a decade of dormancy.  The society runs a busy exam centre, this year having has X people passing amateur radio exams, at a pass rate of 95%.  On the 7th December 2015, we held our biggest ever single exam session with Y candidates.
-Regularly the club runs workshop evenings to give members the opportunity to work on their own projects and gain advice from other members. This year, a large number of our members built their own VFO kits, 2m Slim Jim and 10m antennas for licensing exams. In addition to this, the club is currently working on designing a Morse sounder kit which will hopefully be used for the intermediate project.
+The society regularly runs workshop evenings to give members the opportunity to work on their own projects whilst gaining advice from other members.  Over the last few years we have developed a set of straightforward projects ideas for our new members' practical exam work.  This has included VFO kits, 2m Slim Jims, 10m antennas and most recently Morse sounders.
-We’ve had many successful club outings this year, one of the highlights tracking the VHF signal from the International Space Station towards the end of last year. Also recently, the society received a number of contacts on SSTV, while testing the clubs new quarter wave End-Fed Zepp and tripod mast.
+We have had many successful society outings and operating sessions this past year.  One of the highlights has been tracking the VHF signal from the International Space Station (ISS), in particular during an Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) session where we picked up Tim Peake talking to students at a UK school.  We also ran an operating station at the University's open days back in September 2015 as well as its public-engagement Science and Engineering day on the 12th March 2016.  This July will be our fourth consecutive year entering a team for the RSGB VHF Field Day.
-The society has a current ongoing project led by Tyler Ward to install a rotating antenna array on the side of the Student’s Union building in place of the original G3KMI mast. Also an array of transceiver and control equipment is planned to be installed in one the Student’s Union rooms. The project has recently come across a number of setbacks in the last few months, but the club hopes that the project will gain some momentum next year.
+The society has had an ongoing project to install a rotating antenna array to our Students' Union building to replace the mast we historically had erected on campus.  This includes a system of transceivers and control equipment which is planned for installation within a room in the Students' Union to provide a permanent shack for more regular operating sessions.  Unfortunately, this project has suffered a number of recent setbacks but we hope to get this back on track over the coming year.
-The Farnham WebSDR is another significant ongoing project by the society consisting of an array of antennas mounted on an old MOD Communications Mast, installed north of Farnham, Surrey. The project is a web-based receiver that can be used by multiple users. This can be used by anyone to access a range of amateur radio bands.
+The society, in collaboration with external radio amateurs, has supported the continued development and maintenance the Farnham WebSDR.  This antenna array is mounted to an previous MoD communications mast located north of Farnham in Surrey (IO91OF).  It can be accessed by anyone with a web browser and covers multiple VHF and UHF amateur radio bands.  In particular it is useful for tracking high-altitude balloons as well ISS and satellite passes.
-Every year in early July the society attends the VHF Field Day to take part in the RSGB VHF Field Day competition. This year will be the forth year in a row that the club will be taking part.
 == Joint Agenda ==