History
| The English School Radio Club - 5B4ES |
The English School Radio Club is an amateur radio club and consequently engages its self with the hobby of Amateur Radio. Apart from this, 5B4ES is the only club in the school providing practicals in physics and electronics, helping many students deciding about their studies after school concerning these subjects. It serves as a meeting place for students and is a trademark for the school symbolising the school’s pioneering in complete, all round education..
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| By: 5B4AIP added:01-09-2009 16:19 (modified: 28-01-2018 22:30) |
| The hobby of Amateur Radio |
The hobby of Amateur Radio (or “Ham Radio” from “Harmonised Amateur Radio”) involves people communicating through wireless means using aerials, receivers and transmitters in the same town, district or country or even across the globe. These people who are engaged in the hobby of Amateur Radio are called radio amateurs (or hams)
Today the hobby uses a variety of technological means including computers and mobile phones. The great thing about it however is that communicating is absolutely free.
As its name suggests, Amateur Radio is amateur and therefore much different from the commercial radio broadcasting news, sports and music. Amateur Radio is done only for fun purposes and it can not be used for business (apart from selling equipment).
In order for a radio amateur to be able to transmit he needs to have a local government license giving him a callsign (what will distinguish him on the air). To acquire a license you need to pass the relative examination of your country of which the syllabus covers a very interesting spectrum of electronics.
The most popular activities concerning Amateur Radio include building your own equipment from scratch, making friends across the globe and above all contesting with the rest of the world over who will make the most contacts or who will communicate with the most rare stations over a certain period of time.
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| By: 5B4AIP added:01-09-2009 16:19 (modified: 28-01-2018 22:30) |
| 5B4ES range of activities |
The English School Radio Club (most commonly known as 5B4ES from its callsign) engages itself with all the activities in the spectrum of Amateur Radio and a great part of the Physics spectrum activities concerning electronics, based in its shack under the large antenna tower next to the Headmaster’s house.
Its older members, the ones who have acquired a license, teach the younger members the electronic theory and engage them in interesting practicals (building aerials, speaking on the radio etc). These will help them pass with ease the government’s license examination and obtain the HAREC (Harmonised Amateur Radio Certificate). The members who have a license participate together in contests making the club a major contester across the world.
Apart from equipment projects, contests and practicals in physics, the members’ favourite activity is making traditional kebab at the clubs shack on the infamous “Souvlaki days”.
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| By: 5B4AIP added:01-09-2009 16:21 (modified: 28-01-2018 22:30) |
| 5B4ES in a sentence |
For its members 5B4ES means pure fun and being (one of) the school’s most successful club(s) provides for us the absolute lifetime experience.
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| By: 5B4AIP added:01-09-2009 16:23 (modified: 28-01-2018 22:30) |