<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Young radio amateur in the UK press</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The i newspaper has published an article about amateur radio by <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Rhiannon Williams</strong> featuring one of the new generation of radio amateurs, 10-year-old <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">William M7WHB</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Interest in amateur radio (also known as ham radio) is booming across the UK, as hundreds of new enthusiasts discover the joy of transmitting signals over specially allocated frequency bands to make new friendships and even communicate with satellites.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">One new enthusiast is William, a ten-year-old from near Blackpool. While many were baking sourdough and considering going for a run, William was chatting with new friends thousands of miles away over the radio waves.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The article has an archive picture from 1964 of the impressive Moon Bounce (EME) dish used by Peter Blair G3LTF at Chelmsford in Essex.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the article at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/coronavirus-young-radio-enthusiast-friends-lockdown-600641" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/coronavirus-young-radio-enthusiast-friends-lockdown-600641</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">What is Amateur Radio?<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.essexham.co.uk/what-is-amateur-radio" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.essexham.co.uk/what-is-amateur-radio</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Free online amateur radio training course<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.essexham.co.uk/train/foundation-online/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.essexham.co.uk/train/foundation-online/</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>