Improving Amateur / Ham Radio Club Websites

Essex Ham have released a Guide containing some suggestions on improvements which might be made to club websites. It certainly provides food-for-thought 

Many Amateur / Ham Radio clubs suffer with a poor online presence, including outdated, broken, poorly-designed and invisible websites that do no favour to the club's image or attracting new members.

To help give clubs a greater understanding of some of the common problems with online promotion, Essex Ham have produced a guide - http://www.essexham.co.uk/guides/ImprovingClubWebsites.pdf

New Youth Amateur / Ham Radio Contesting Program

This year - 2015, a new IARU Region 1 (Europe/Africa) amateur / ham radio Youth Contesting Program (YCP) will commence.

Youth members from IARU Region 1 member societies are invited to take part in a contest from so called “Top-Gun” stations. Younger HAM’s will learn how to operate the contest station, improve their contest skills and will aim for the best results together as a team.

A youngster will probably be coming for the first time to the host country and will get the chance to not only share and develop his/her amateur / ham radio knowledge, but to also sample the local customs and culture of the host country.

Youth Contest Program - http://www.ham-yota.com/youth-contesting-program/

IARU Region 1 - http://iaru-r1.org/

Software Winner of Annual Construction Competition

Each year, Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) annual constructors competition recognises all types of home construction be it software or hardware 

Among the entries were a 10m, 144MHz Transverter, MKARS80 80m transceiver kit, a Valve Audio Amplifier, Discone antenna, Portable operation wire antenna extender, and a centre-loaded HF whip antenna for mobile operating, but the members vote determined it would be a software entry that would claim top prize.

Charlie M0PZT was awarded first prize for PZTLog, a powerful logging app that he has built from the ground up and released free to the amateur radio community.

As well as receiving the £15 top prize Charlie's name will be added to the Society M1FDE Shield which will be presented at the October AGM. The Shield was first awarded in 2009 in memory of keen constructor Anthony Martin.

Read illustrated reports of the evening - http://www.essexham.co.uk/news/cars-construction-night-2015.html

Download the PZTLog amateur radio logging software for MS Windows - http://www.m0pzt.com/pztlog/