Teacher helps students earn amateur radio licenses
/Petal High School Information Technology teacher Brad Amacker N5MZ helped his students earn amateur radio licenses thanks to a grant he received during the 2012-13 school year
The Hattiesburg American reports that Amacker used the grant for a project involving a digital mode of Amateur Radio called D-STAR, Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio.
His IT classes studied Amateur Radio and FCC Rules during the fall semester and seventeen students earned FCC Amateur Radio licenses.
