Taking amateur radio into the classroom

Primary school students are being shown aspects of amateur radio by members of the Orange and District Amateur Radio Club in Central West New South Wales.

As part of the club's celebration of the Centenary of Organised Amateur Radio in Australia, club members have been visiting the Glenroi Heights Public School.

Year five and six class teacher Rachael Livingstone says her students have been learning basic Morse code and new construction skills.

The boys and girls are enjoying learning something new. Orange and District Amateur Radio Club member Ross Wilson VK2ER has been teaching the code and they are able to communicate using it, while Richard Morrison VK2SON has been conducting the weekly classes on electronics and soldering.

First starting out with small projects to learn the skill of soldering, they have recently built a radio transmitter.

This training will continue for the rest of this year and sounds like a good model that could be picked up by other radio clubs around Australia.