Group:Amateur Radio

The call sign of London Hackspace is M0HSL.

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

• Amateur Radio getting started. So you've achieved your Foundation licence, what now?

Slightly out of date

• London Hackspace Radio Club

Useful links

• Transmission1
• HamTests
• Ofcom WTR
• Ofcom Amateur Radio
• ukrepeaters
• Repeaters that everyone can get to (even if it's RX only).
• RSGB
• Protective Multiple Earthing and the Radio Amateur

Rigs

• Useful resource for the Baofeng UV-5R