ARLA/CLUSTER: Revista britânica AMRED disponível para download

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

AMRED magazines available for download

The UK educational charity STELAR (Science and Technology through
Educational Links with Amateur Radio) has made available PDF copies of
its magazine AMRED

AMRED was produced from 1994 until 2001 and sent to over 100
affiliated schools and colleges across the UK.

Early issues of the magazine have a description of the Novice amateur
licence, the forerunner of today's Intermediate. In 1988 the RSGB was
concerned that a large number of children aged 7 upwards were being
denied the opportunity of experiencing life on the air waves.
To address this the Novice licence was introduced in 1991. The Class B
Novice permitted 3 watts output on 433-435 MHz along with the 1240 MHz
& 10 GHz bands and two segments in the 50 MHz band for which there was
little available equipment in 1991.

Issue 4.3 highlights one of the problems faced in the mid-1990's - the
aging amateur population combined with a fall in the number of
licenced operators. The concern then was that the majority of radio
amateurs were Middle-Aged with few younger amateurs. 20 years later
that demographic has shifted and in 2016 the majority of radio
amateurs are Pensioners.

AMRED PDF's can be downloaded from the STELAR site at
http://stelar.info/