In between busy familie chores I found some time to be in front of the radio and work some of the air cadets in their blue ham radio excersise. I think many stations did not know what it was all about as the air cadet stations don't use the radioamateurs language and codes. They call CQ with "Alpha Charley". Unfortunately I was not able to get that on video but will try to do that next weekend. I made a video from my contact met MRE31S but unfortenately the audio doesn't sound very clear.
Most of the activity was outside the frequencies allocated for most countries as the region-1 60m allocation. We dutch radioamateurs are still lucky to be allowed outside these frequencies and so it was possible to work these militairy style stations again.
I found a interesting report from a participating air cadet station of last year, nice read:
http://www.centraleast-atc.org.uk/archives/3715
Another interesting page is the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Air_Cadets
There are also dutch air cadets, but will they ever organise a radio excersise?
http://www.nlac.nl/air-cadets.html
Most of the activity was outside the frequencies allocated for most countries as the region-1 60m allocation. We dutch radioamateurs are still lucky to be allowed outside these frequencies and so it was possible to work these militairy style stations again.
I found a interesting report from a participating air cadet station of last year, nice read:
http://www.centraleast-atc.org.uk/archives/3715
Another interesting page is the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Air_Cadets
There are also dutch air cadets, but will they ever organise a radio excersise?
http://www.nlac.nl/air-cadets.html