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11 NEW  FOUNDATION CERTIFICATES AWARDED

Wigtownshire Amateur Radio Club in conjunction with Dumfries & Galloway Council Community Learning Service have just completed their first of the new U.K. Amateur Radio Foundation Course held at the Aird Unit, Stranraer Academy. This is believed to be the largest class  participating in the scheme in Scotland so far.

Ian Macdonald (MM5WIG) from Wigtown who is the volunteer  Senior Instructor in Dumfries & Galloway for the  Radio Society of Great Britain, along  with a very enthusiastic team from the Wigtownshire club ran an intensive two day course at the Academy over  a recent week-end. The course was run using Microsoft Powerpoint presentation material kindly supplied by fellow amateurs from the Bangor & District Amateur Radio Society in Northern Ireland. The Wigtownshire Club are now preparing their own improved Scottish version of the material.

The 11 students who came from all over Scotland to take the course, passed their examination and morse assessment with  flying colours. The youngest student, Daniel Sturgeon from Ayr at only 12 years of age is now just bursting to use his fathers rig!.