VK9 now SOTA classified

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The VK9 (Australian external territories) call area now has summits classified under SOTA as follows -

  • 1 summit on Christmas Island.
  • 2 summits on Norfolk Island.
  • 4 summits on Lord Howe Island

Congratulations to Wayne VK3WAM who gathered his gear together quickly and headed up to a local summit when he heard that the Norfolk Island VK9NT DXpedition had decided to activate the new SOTA summit today (Thursday), earlier than the originally planned Saturday.

Wayne has already posted a blog with pictures describing the action - http://waynemerry.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/activation-of-mt-dandenong-first-summit-2-summit-with-norfolk-island/

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Free WARD certificate

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Those who participated during the 'World Amateur Radio Day' on 18th April 2013, and made a minimum of 200 QSOs, can obtain a certificate.

It is issued free of charge if requested in electronic format (pdf). To get this certificate, you must send by May 18th, 2013, a log in ADIF format with 200 QSOs to fenyo3jw@yahoo.com

More info -  http://wff-yo.blogspot.com

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Queen's Award for Wood & Douglas

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Radio amateur Alan Wood G4EEE started his business from his back room in the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee – now 36 years later, his company has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise

Wood & Douglas Ltd gets its name from the original partnership between amateur radio enthusiasts Alan Wood G4EEE and John Douglas.

Both were employed in government service, John as a draughtsman and Alan as a physicist, when they began trading as a design consultancy in March 1977. Initially they provided PCB design and manufacture on a subcontract basis.

By 1979 the Company had leaped ahead, with designer Mike Telkman G8DCA, a work colleague and fellow radio-amateur, joining the business. Mike designed a range of products to be sold by mail order, aimed at the radio amateur hobbyist market. In 1981 John Douglas resigned with Alan becoming the first full-time employee of Wood & Douglas, followed by Mike in July 1983.

The supply of "kit of parts" to radio amateurs grew into providing complex, high quality RF design solutions to commercial customers.

They now specialise in wireless broadcast technology,

Wood and Douglas - http://www.woodanddouglas.co.uk/

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