Group:Amateur Radio

Inside our radio shack

The call sign of London Hackspace is M0HSL.

What is Amateur Radio, Why Do it

It's the original 'nerd' hobby- building and playing with all sorts of communication over the airwaves! For those that are curious, more info available here.

Amateur radio complements many other interest groups in the space by providing a basis for the electronic and communications technologies that allow us to effectively explore and create cool stuff.

RSGB Affiliation

London Hackspace are an RSGB affiliated club. This means we can enter RSGB contests, get news coverage in Radcom and GB2RS easily and probably get some general promotion for the space, generally good things.

Meetings & Events

Meetings are monthly on the first Saturday, at 14:00.

Courses

• Foundation Course 29-30 November

Contact

• Mailing list
• IRC, #lhs-radio on freenode (or via web browser).
• Twitter, @M0HSL
• Member's Callsigns – Hackspace members' callsigns

Projects and Goals for the Club

• Hacktenna
• Morse Code
• Mast – 30M Mast Trailer
• Encourage more active licensing of atypical amateur radio enthusiasts (younger demographics, women, minorities)
• Build a complementary bridge between other group efforts
• Mount and install a variety of antennas on the shack (Rebuild the Yagi, install the 2 m Diamond antenna, rearrange cables in shack)
• Participate as a club/team in some contests and possibly field activities like SOTA
• Explore more digital HF modes
• More Intermediate (second-level) licensing activities

Informative

• Repeaters that everyone can get to (even if it's RX only).
• Amateur Radio/Getting started. So you've got your Foundation licence and callsign, what now?

Slightly out of date

• London Hackspace Radio Club

Useful links

• Transmission1
• HamTests
• Ofcom WTR
• Ofcom Amateur Radio
• ukrepeaters
• RSGB
• Protective Multiple Earthing and the Radio Amateur

Rigs

• Useful resource for the Baofeng UV-5R