The Border Mail

The Border Mail

"Ham it up on the air waves
By ADAM DAVID

A NEW national amateur radio licence has been launched.

The new licence is a joint venture between the Wireless Institute of Australia, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and radio clubs across Australia.
The licence is designed to make amateur radio more accessible.

The new licence requires less study and does away with older skills such as morse code.

Twin Cities Radio Club media officer Graeme Scott believes the revised program will make the world of ham radio more attractive to younger people.

And with a broadcast capacity strong enough to reach people in Europe, the US and Antarctica, a broadcaster is not likely to run out of interesting topics.

The radio club may also be called on to help provide emergency communication, as it did in the 2003 fires.

Individual licences cost upwards of $50 and a training course is being offered on January 14|and 15. "



73 fer nw,
Bob AD5VJ

10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
http://www.n5iet.com/
Code may be taking a back seat for now,
but the pioneering spirit that put the code
there in the first place is out front of it all.