Nanaimo Club Celebrate Founding

The Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association will be celebrating their 67th anniversary as well as World Amateur Radio Day on April 18

The Nanaimo Daily News reports an open house is planned to mark the occasion. There will be demonstrations of voice and digital modes of ham radio and a direction finding hunt, where a radio transmitter is hidden and has to be found on a certain frequency through various search techniques.

Emergency preparedness will be covered at the April 18 event by members of the Coastal Emergency Communication Association.

Full story - http://www.nanaimodailynews.com/news/radio-waves-group-to-celebrate-its-founding-with-open-house-1.1816931

Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association - http://www.ve7na.ca/

RSGB Youth Committee Minutes Released

The minutes of the RSGB Youth Committee meeting held on 14 March 2015 have been released

In the minutes RSGB Board member Steve Hartley G0FUW indicates that in 2014-15 the level of young members in the RSGB had remained broadly constant.

The number of young members had plunged by 43% in the preceding 4 years to the low 200's.

The minutes record that the increase in the average age of RSGB members has halted but it is due to older people in their 40's joining rather than younger people.

In 2011 60% of RSGB members were aged 60 or over and the average membership age had been increasing one year every year so it is encouraging news that this aging trend has now stabilised.

The minutes note the RSGB Board's view that the Society has money and that this money is being well spent if it furthers the hobby and brings more youngsters into the hobby. For the Wales DX15 event the Committee has secured £3900 from the RSGB and the RCF.

The Youth Committee Chair Mike Jones 2E0MLJ plans to give a 30 minute presentation about the Committee's work to the RSGB AGM in London on Saturday, April 25.

Download the Youth Committee minutes - http://rsgb.org/main/files/2014/12/RSGB-Youth-Committee-Meeting-14-March-Minutes-PDF.pdf

RSGB Youth Committee - http://rsgb.org/main/about-us/committees/youth-committee/

Youth Committee on Twitter - http://twitter.com/yota_uk

Scientist Radio Ham Named for Prestigious Award

Ajay K. Poddar¸ AC2KG, of Elmwood, New Jersey, has been selected by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as the winner of the 2015 International Frequency Control Symposium W.G. Cady Award

Poddar, a chief scientist at Synergy Microwave Corp and an academic, was cited for “the analysis, design and development of a host of frequency control products exhibiting state-of-the-art performance, including the development of extremely low noise crystal oscillator circuitry.”

The award marks the second honor for Synergy Microwave scientists this year, and the third in 3 years. Synergy Chairman Ulrich Rohde, N1UL (ex-KA2WEU), recently was named as the recipient of the IEEE’s I. I. Rabi Award for 2015, and last year he won the C.B. Sawyer Memorial Award.

Full ARRL Story - http://www.arrl.org/news/scientist-radio-amateur-named-to-receive-prestigious-award