Where have our technologists gone?

It is difficult to believe that only entries from overseas have been received in the Innovation competition that is being sponsored by the SA Amateur Radio Development Trust and ICOM.

'Innovation in Amateur Radio' is an eighteen-month, South African project, aimed at promoting innovation in Amateur Radio.

"While Amateur Radio is one of the oldest and still the most rewarding of all the scientific hobbies, there comes a time when one has to look at innovation, new ideas and new technologies to keep the activities relevant and exciting". This is the view of Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, a technologist and a member of the Board of Trustees of SAARDT. Hannes was one of the principle architects of the Amateur Radio payload on SumbandilaSat.

Radio amateurs and technologists are invited to submit projects that will innovate amateur radio whether is it software, amateur radio and the Internet, the development of compact HF antennas for flat and complex dwellers or innovation in Emergency Communications.

Read more about it on www.amateurradio.org.za and visit the innovations page. See how D-star is changing the amateur radio experience in other countries.

The South African Radio League