FISTS CW Club Royal Platinum Jubilee Weekend Celebration

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FISTS CW Club Royal Platinum Jubilee Weekend Celebration

FISTS CW Club is celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth over the holiday weekend at the beginning on June 2022.

The celebration will take the form of an international on-air activity and culminates in the award of commemorative plaques to two participants.

Overview

An on-air activity on the days Friday, 3. June; Saturday, 4. June; Sunday, 5. June 2022.

UK stations may use the RSL 'Q' per Ofcom regulation. NoV applications can be made through RSGB at https://rsgb.org/main/operating/licensing-novs-visitors/online-nov-application/

Information about this Royal Platinum Jubilee activity can be found online at https://fists.co.uk/activities

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Dave Ritter, ND4MR, Receives ARRL Herb S. Brier Instructor of the Year Award

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The 2021 ARRL Herb S. Brier Award for Instructor of The Year was given to recipient Dave Ritter, ND4MR. The award was presented during the ARRL forum at the Charlotte, North Carolina Hamfest on Saturday, March 12.

An ARRL member for nearly 40 years, Ritter is an ARRL Registered Instructor and a full-time faculty member at Wilkes Community College in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, where he’s been the lead — and sole — Technician licensing course instructor since 2010.

Continuously licensed since age 14, Dave is retired and living in Wilkesboro.

ARRL sponsors this award in conjunction with the Lake County Indiana Amateur Radio Club in Brier’s memory to recognize superior Amateur Radio instruction and recruitment.

Media Story - https://www.arrl.org/news/dave-ritter-nd4mr-receives-arrl-herb-s-brier-instructor-of-the-year-award

Amateur Radio Led to a Teenager Embarking on an Electronics Career

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The Bradford Telegraph and Argus reports amateur radio led to a career in electronics for Geoff Higgins G3UBD

Geoff Higgins started tinkering with radios in his early teens.

“After the war, a lot of stuff was being sold off - it was a treasure trove of parts. I used to cycle down to Bairstow’s in Keighley on my bike - they sold lots of bits and pieces and I bought the bits that could be used for radios and transceivers. I would mess about with them. I pulled them apart and made new ones.”

Aged 16 he had an amateur radio licence. “My call sign - which I still have - is G3UBD. I did a lot of amateur radio and talked to people across the world.”

With a passion for electrics, Geoff considered joining the General Post Office to work in telephony. “But back then, to me, telephony was just about bits of wire - when you think what it has become, how wrong I was.”

He went to work for Leonard Dyer as an apprentice in Bingley, attending Bradford College studying TV and radio electrics on day release.

At the time, Bradford was a key player in the world of television, with Baird TV in Lidget Green manufacturing the bulk of the nation’s TV sets. At one time it was the most modern and largest TV factory in all of Europe.

Media Story - https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20027985.tinkering-turned-career-electrics-geoff/