Young Alabama Radio Hams Earn Awards

Three Alabama young Amateur / Ham Radio Operators have been recognised for their skills during recent local and national competitions.

Warren Whitby W4RRN, 16, Bryant Rascoll KG5HVO, 14 and Marissa Robledo W4AQT, 11 are members of the Montgomery Amateur Radio Club and their futures appear to be exceedingly bright.

Whitby received this year’s American Radio League’s “Alabama Outstanding Youth Ham Award” in Huntsville. He built his own ham radios including an antenna.

He also represented the young generation of hams as part of the Amateur Radio delegation at the Alabama State Capitol. Gov. Kay Ivey signed a proclamation designating the week of 24th June 2018 as Amateur Radio Week in Alabama.

Rascoll was selected as the 2018 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Radio Newsline “Young Ham of the Year.” He received his award in August at a ham radio convention in Huntsville.

Robledo has been named first runner up for the Alabama Outstanding Youth Ham Award.

During the past year she has given satellite demonstrations to various clubs and groups. She is considered to be an excellent ambassador for amateur radio.

Media Story - https://eu.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/08/26/three-youths-earn-awards-amateur-radio-skills/1105943002/

 

HEMA Activity Day

HEMA, the Humps Excluding Marilyns Award, is a programme similar to SOTA which involves chasing and activating summits. Recently there has been an increase in popularity. 

The HEMA Activity Day is Saturday 16th June and most activity will take place between 10:00 UTC and 14:00 UTC.

For chasers there will be certificates for chasing three or more summits.  For activators there are also certificates for a QSO with another HEMA summit operator.  It’s not a contest, but rather a bit of fun to get people operating portable.

HEMA - http://www.hema.org.uk

New Award for CW and Digimode on HS4

HamSphere 4.0 use Phone SSB,CW ( Morse code ) and digital modes: RTTY, SSTV and PSK. There are a lot of awards for SSB but now 4 new awards for digimodes. They are not easy to win...

Digital modes are becoming more and more popular on the amateur bands and on virtual radio HamSphere. They are a lot of free programs to use this modes on a computer, but you can also use your ears and between your ears to decode CW, and send CW with a key or via you computer mouse or keyboard (hamsphere plugin CW player)

More Information - https://hamspheref0duw.blogspot.fr/2018/03/new-digimode-anc-cw-awards-on-hamsphere.html