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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 others. Over the last few years we have developed a set of straightforward project 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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 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.
+The society regularly runs workshop evenings to give members the opportunity to work on their own projects whilst gaining advice from others.  Over the last few years we have developed a set of straightforward project 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.