Beginners Guides to Satellite Operating

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The Chertsey Radio Club site now has beginners guides to operating the FM and SSB amateur radio satellites 

Getting started with FM satellites - http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/getting-started-with-fm-satellites.html

Getting started with SSB satellites - http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/ssb-ham-radio-satellites-beginners-guide.html

Recently club members have been working through the satellites from the historic site of Windsor Castle - http://chertseyradioclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/windsor-castle.html

Awarded Teen Reaches the World via Ham Radio

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16-year-old Anna Veal W0ANT has been honored for her work in radio technology 

Describing her passion for the amateur radio hobby, Anna says “It’s learning about different cultures, it’s not just having a conversation over the radio, it’s having an experience.”

Tuning in over her handheld radio, Veal has talked to a man in Germany about the weather and music. She’s talked to a girl in Russia about what school is like in the foreign country.

In the digital age, using a radio to communicate may seem old-fashioned. But for Anna, it is a passion and hobby that has earned her many recognitions, including, most recently, a Radio Club of America Young Achievers Award along with the 2014 ARRL Hiram Percy Maxim Award . 

Veal, a student at STEM School and Academy, was 8 years old when she first received her amateur radio license.

Media Story -  
http://highlandsranchherald.net/stories/teen-reaches-out-to-world-via-airwaves,245030

Radio Hams Protest Antenna Restrictions

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Ham Radio operators are unhappy with the passing of restrictive Ordinance 1423 passed by Payette City Council, Idaho on 21 February 2017 

The ordinance’s included a new code chapter: “Wireless facility, spires, poles, antenna steeples, towers and other such structures” that restricts amateur radio antennas to just 30 feet.

Julie Bunker KV7JB, who holds a master’s degree in civil engineering and is president of the local radio operators group, told city officials the limit would be more appropriately set within the 60 to 80-foot range. 

At the Council meeting on 20 March 2017, City Councilor Ray Wickersham told Bunker “It wasn’t our intention to block what you do. It is more our intention to help what you do” 

Bunker, Jim Johnson W7TYG, and a few of the other operators who were present also stressed a compelling public interest in having amateur radio configurations  in times of emergency. Radio amateurs, Bunker said, have “a well-deserved reputation for providing communications in emergency situations.” She said local amateur radio operations were important, for example, during the flood of 1 January 1997.

Media Story -  
http://www.argusobserver.com/independent/news/amateur-radio-group-dislikes--foot-limit-on-antennas/article_84c4f4de-1409-11e7-b2cd-3ff9b762a580.html