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| Foundation licence holder Amanda
Gray received the call sign VK4FRST |
First Australian Amateur Radio Foundation Licences issued
Some 16 people qualified at the Foundation Training Course conducted
by Australia's Gold Coast Amateur Radio Society over the weekend
of 16 and 17 September 2005, involving a group of WIA Assessors,
led by Nominated Assessor, Ron
Bertrand, VK2DQ.
The first Foundation licences were issued the following Friday,
21 October 2005, after ACMA's Determination creating the licence
came into effect on the previous Wednesday. The very first licence
was issued to Amanda Gray.
Amanda, a legal secretary, was encouraged to undertake the training
course by her husband, Chris, VK4XWD. They have two children, aged
6 and 3, and so life is very busy!
She had asked for the callsign VK4FRST before she knew that her
licence was, in fact, the first Foundation licence issued in Australia,
because she thought she had to be a first something, perhaps the
first mum to get a Foundation licence, and was a bit embarrassed
when she was told that she really was the first.
At a special meeting of the Gold Coast club on Sunday 23 0ctober
2005 to mark the issue of the new licence, WIA President Michael
Owen, VK3KI, presented Amanda with a copy of the just release ARRL
handbook, and a WIA
satchel.
Doug Hunter, VK4ADC, from Ozgear, Brisbane, presented Amanda with
an Icom radio, on behalf of Ozgear and Icom.
Amanda and Chris both became WIA members on the spot.
• Read more about Amanda
Amanda
Gray VK4FRST is FiRST
Source: Wireless
Institute of Australia
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