Meeting:2016/06/09

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

Amateur Radio

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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.

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.

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.

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 Farnham WebSDR is another significant ongoing project by the society consisting of an array of antennas 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.

Every year in early July the society attends the VHF Field Day in Basingstoke to take part in the RSGB VHF Field Day competition, joining Basingstoke Amateur Radio Club. This year will be the forth year in a row that the club will be taking part.

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