News Page 19
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SARCNET Getting New Operators On The Air
From time to time we get donations of Amateur Radio equipment from extremely generous people who want to help us get youngsters on the air. We work hard to clean and repair the often disparate pieces of equipment and assemble it into a fully tested and operational station. The equipment is then provided to young, newly licenced operators needing a rig.
The following equipment was generously donated by our dear friend Glen, VK3GMC, sadly now sk. We were able to restore it to as-new condition and we proudly passed it on to a bright, young lad that we discovered on our daily 7105 net.
We first met James, VK3JFR, when he called in one day via the Internet to the Ballarat Amateur Radio Group's IC-7300 remote transceiver. We found out that James had just completed high school and was looking to save up for his own radio equipment. So we were very pleased to help him out.
The donated equipment includes an Icom IC-718 Transceiver, Kenwood PS-50 Power Supply, Emtron EAT-300A Antenna Tuner, Hi-Mound HK-707 Morse code key and a 40m/20m fan dipole of our own design.