This year’s IOTA team on St. John’s Island: 9V1AZ, Gopal; 9V1AD, Chuck; 9V1AV, JT; 9V1GH, Sanjeev with son Kush; 9V1JO, Johari; 9V1KG, Klaus; 9V1RT, Roland; and Sanjeev. 9V1RB with friend joined as day visitors. Station call sign was 9V1IO.
Thanks to Gopal for the whole organisation; to Haoyuan for letting us use his 7300 with PSU and PAC-12 antenna, Klaus for the Computer, Buddistick, endfed and Keyer, and Roland for the pole and camping trolley.
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We will have our SARTS Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Jan, 28th, 2021. Due to the pandemic the meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Members already received the meeting id and passcode via email.
Nominations
The following have been nominated by the council to serve for the 2021 work year:
President : James Brooks 9V1YC
Vice President: Benjamin Koe 9V1KB
Hon. Secretary: Jeff Yeo Nai Kwang 9V1AS
Asst Secretary : Aaron Wong 9V1AW
Hon. Treasurer: Harish Pillay 9V1HP
Council Member: Roland Turner 9V1RT
Council Member: Chu Haoyuan 9V1HY
Council Member: Arnold Cabahug 9V1CD
Agenda
Confirmation of the Minutes of the 50th AGM held on 24th Sep 2020 2.
Matters Arising from the Minutes of the 50th AGM 3.
To consider and accept the Council’s Annual Report for 2020
To consider and accept the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 Dec 2020
Election of Council Members and Office Bearers for 2021.
Welcome address by new council members
Election of Hon. Auditor for 2021
To consider the matter of monthly meetings by Zoom until such time when eyeball meetings may be resumed.
The first hams in Singapore came from Britain and they arrive in the 1930s. They were assigned the callsign prefix VS1. Hams in the Federated Malaya States were assigned VS2.
1994 – Teens can now apply for ham radio license
After World War II, several Radio Societies were formed in Malaya. The state of Perak had a society, Selangor had a society and there was the Malayan Amateur Radio Transmitters Society or MARTS.
In 1949, while under the administration of the Federation of Malaya (1948 to 1957), the Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (SARTS) was formed and registered. SARTS and the other smaller societies were later absorbed into MARTS which was the largest of the radio societies in Malaya.
On 31 August 1957, the Federation of Malaya gained independence from Britain and being a new country, new entity, they were assigned the 9M prefix.
In 1963, Singapore, together with Sarawak and Sabah, became part of the Federation of Malaya, which then became Malaysia. Singapore, being part of Malaysia, was assigned the 9M4 prefix. Sarawak and Sabah were assigned 9M6.
On 9 August 1965, Singapore separated from Malaysia, and we became an independent country. Being another new country, new entity, we were assigned the 9V prefix which is in use till today.
Singapore Hams continued to be part of MARTS until it was decided that it was better for Singapore Hams and Malaysia Hams to have separate societies. The separation was an amicable one.
On 26 August 1968, the present day SARTS was formed. The first president of SARTS was Livin de Souza. The Society continues on till today.