Construction Competition winner announced

Christo Pelster, ZS6AHQ, is the winner of the South African Amateur Radio Development Trust 2008 construction competition.

His entry is a combined Audio/RF Signal Generator capable of generating stable sine wave signals from 1 Hz to 30 MHz with a 1 Hz resolution which with a Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS), an optical encoder and large 8-digit LCD readout under control of a PIC16F628A together with minimal analogue electronics which provides a versatile test instrument.

The judges commended him on the design, proto-type and documentation. Icom presented Christo with a two-band VHF/UHF transceiver and the Trust presented him with a hard cover 2008 ARRL Handbook.

Details of the project will be published on www.amateurradio.org.za next week and in a future edition of Radio ZS.