Ladyada Awarded Ham Radio License

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Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, an electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company Adafruit Industries passed all three classes of the Amateur / Ham Radio exams, and now is an Extra Class Amateur.

Adafruit Industries designs and sells open source electronic kits, components, and tools. 

More Information - https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/04/20/congrats-ladyada-ham-license-and-getting-to-amateur-extra-adafruit-arrl-hamradio/

K1JT is Amateur of the Year

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Joe Taylor, K1JT has been named as 2016 Dayton Hamvention Amateur of the Year.

He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 for the discovery of the first orbiting pulsar, leading to observations that established the existence of gravitational waves.

Joe was first licensed in 1954 as KN2ITP. Since his retirement, he has been developing and enhancing digital protocols for weak-signal amateur radio communication, including JT65 and WSPR.

RSGB Announces New General Manager

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Steve Thomas M1ACB has been appointed as the new General Manager of the Bedford-based Radio Society of Great Britain 

Steve lives in Suffolk and is currently the RSGB Region 12 (England East & East Anglia) Manager. He represented the RSGB at the Cardiff Tim Peake launch event held on 14 December 2015 and has been working with many of the schools and local clubs involved in the Tim Peake GB1SS ARISS contacts.

He has visited the Essex Skills Nights at Danbury and been activity involved with the Suffolk RED Skills Nights.

Steve started his role on 11th April 2016 and there will be a brief period of overlap to ensure a smooth handover of responsibilities before the outgoing General Manager, Graham Coomber G0NBI, who leaves at the end of the month.

RSGB statement - http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2016/04/05/rsgb-announces-new-general-manager/

RSGB Region 12 Team - 
http://rsgb.org/main/about-us/regional-managers/england-east-and-east-anglia/meet-the-region-12-team/

Steve Thomas M1ACB Twitter - https://twitter.com/m1acb
Steve Thomas M1ACB Blog - https://m1acb.wordpress.com/
Steve Thomas M1ACB Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/steve.g.thomas