Here is a little bit of information about some of the other activities I get upto in Ham Radio. No particular order, and probably hardly up to date!
https://www.sarah.org.za is the Southern African Radio Active Ham’s portal to Amateur Radio activities in Southern Africa. Here you will find a local blend of SOTA, POTA, Lighthouses on the Air, and our very own RaDAR interface. (RADAR is the brainchild of Eddie Leighton – ZS6BNE) and is a proudly South African Amateur activity.
The Covid-19 initiaves for Radio Hams include the Sarah Lockdown game and the Eyedeal HopeBox programmes. More information about the HopeBox initiave can be found here. Eyedeal is in no way linked to the HopeBox program, it is simply one of the domain names we use at the saltmine for display/demo software.
Hammies are class-B licence candidates. They are also mini-humans! Kids under the age of 20 who would like to be involved with the hobby can join as a Hammie. Although kids as old as 19.9999 can join, the program is typically aimed at early teens and even earlier. The older kids, both who have been Hammies and those joining later in their teens are encouraged to write the Class A exam.
The Hammies program is designed to capture the interest of kids and channel that interest into ham radio, electronics, maths, science, and technology. It is also a lot of fun! I am personally involved with the PE Hammies and the Hammies club in Bisho with my friend Lunga Ngini. You might have worked us – ZS2ZU?
I also operated ZS95SARL on Satellites and FT8 as part of the SARL Council team on World Amateur Radio Day! I had such fun working on the satellites in particular. I did two passes – one with 7 contacts and the second with 11 contacts! The FT8, while still fun, was not nearly as rewarding!