Every year the Dragon Amateur Radio Club holds a construction contest with the aim of encouraging members to build either radio equipment or ancillary items which will enhance their radio operations and then to exhibit the builds to encourage others to follow their example.
Entries could have included any radio-related equipment, for example a morse oscillator, test unit, QRP rig, computer/radio interface, PSU, Tx/Rx, linear, antenna, ATU etc. Entries could also have been built from a commercially available kit or indeed scratch built.
1st Prize winner Les Hayward MW0SEC won with his Signal Generator
Beginners Prize winner Jason Young MWOJYY won with a portable beam rotator
Well done to this years winners
Building amateur radio items can help licensed operators in several ways, including:
- Understanding equipment
Building amateur radio items can help operators understand the equipment they’re using. - Learning new skills
Building amateur radio items can help operators learn new skills.
Some equipment that amateur radio operators may need and consider constructing includes:
- A transceiver, which is the radio that allows for sending and receiving signals
- A power supply for the transceiver
- An antenna, such as a VHF/UHF antenna or an HF wire antenna
- A mobile transceiver
- A mobile antenna mount
- Computers
- Power cables
- Weather stations
- Scanners and receivers
- Towers
- Two-way radios
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