SARTS – Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society

IOTA Contest 2025 Pulau Ubin

Propagation was good, noise level acceptable. We operated on 40, 20 and 15 m in mixed mode (SSB & CW). 175 QSO in total, highest qso rate at 8 pm, 12 mn and 7 am.

Greetings from Ex SARTS Member – ZL1MH

We just received the following message:

From 1962 until 1964 I was a member of SARTS. I held the calls VS1LU and 9M4LU.
It is so nice to see that the club is still alive and well. At the time that I was a member, I lived at 17 Ernani St., Opera Estate & operated mainly on 20 m CW.
With 73 to all present members from N.Z

de Mike, ZL1MH.

IOTA 2024

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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Input a Username – please use your call sign or handle + call sign (space is accepted, e.g. “9V1KG Klaus”) – and your Email address. You will then receive a confirmation/ verification email sent to the address provided. Therefore double-check the email address before submission.

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At the moment after registration and login there is no big change, except that

you can post in the membership forum
provide additional information in your profile
access the form to post items for sales on the SARTS market place

Once the majority of SARTS members are registered, additional features will be implemented.

Thank You!

SARTS Membership List

Last updated: 2025-07-10

9V1AB	Nils Christian Ujma
9V1AD	Cheuk Yan Au (Chuck)	x
9V1AE	Karthik Raj Nachiappan	x
9V1AI	V. Jayaram	x
9V1AK	Matt Ranostay	x
9V1AM	Jason Ingram	x
9V1AS	Jeff Yeo	x
9V1AT	Andrew Tan	x
9V1AV	James Tan Chun Chieh	x
9V1AW	Aaron Wong	x
9V1AX	Kelem Amir
9V1AY	Mark Barnard	x
9V1AZ	Gopalan Vedartham	x
9V1BC	Solomon Tan Wei Jie	x
9V1BD	Ho Jie Feng
9V1BG	Achala Darshana Senaranta	x
9V1BK	Kenneth Tan Xinrong	x
9V1BM	Sanjeev Gopal	x
9V1BO	Baino Paul	x
9V1BX	Samuel (Sam) Lau	x
9V1BZ	Gabriel Gabe
9V1CB	Dr Yee Ching TOK	x
9V1CE	Kevin W Rogers (KF7TUU)	x
9V1CK	Claus J Karthe	x
9V1CQ	Maximilian Boetcher	x
9V1CU	Seth Block	x
9V1CV	Choong Sek Yeen	x
9V1CW	Colin J. Paul	x
9V1DA	Diego Abas	x
9V1DE	Darryl Ee	x
9V1DK	Derrick Ian Ling	x
9V1DT	Sampath Kumar Padmanabhan	x
9V1EH	Liu Chang
9V1EK	Eddy Kok	x
9V1EO	Eric Olson	x
9V1EP	Masakazu Namajiri	x
9V1FH	Thum Fu Hang	x
9V1FJ	Barry Fletcher	x
9V1FL	Francis Lim
9V1GH	Sanjeev Gupta
9V1GZ	Guenter Zwickl
9V1GW	Alex Voss	x
9V1HF	Koenraad Mouthaan	x
9V1HH	Amos Hoe	x
9V1HL	Herman Lahey	x
9V1HP	Harish Pillay	x
9V1HX	Alvin Siah	x
9V1HY	Haoyuan Chu
9V1JH	Aaron Pok	x
9V1JM	Joey Muncada	x
9V1JN	Jothinathan G. S. Sundram	x
9V1JO	Johari Osman	x
9V1JT	Jose Carlos (JC) Cortez Tupaz	x
9V1KA	Amon Saka Kaneko
9V1KD	Nick Anskombe	x
9V1KG	Klaus D Goepel	x
9V1KM	Kevin Basil Magnus (Mag)	x
9V1KT	Kevin Tan	x
9V1KV	Kishore Vejju	x
9V1LB	Lawbin Ang Wen Law	x
9V1LC	Choong Lee Song	x
9V1LD	Larry Mangilaya Dimaano	x
9V1LH	Stephan Grensemann	x
9V1LW	Chia Lih Wei	x
9V1LX	Mike Easterbrook
9V1LY	Li Yu
9V1MJ	Murali S/O Jothinathan
9V1NM	Mantha Nikhil Bhardwaj	x
9V1OD	Tan Lian Huat	x
9V1OG	Rene Atienza Ogie	x
9V1PK	Peter Khor
9V1PL	Lai Yong Yeow Philip	x
9V1PP	Andrew Lee
9V1RB	Ragul Balaji
9V1RC	Robert Chen
9V1RF	Ross French
9V1RK	Robert Kimmel	x
9V1RT	Roland Turner	x
9V1SA	Hugh Maison	x
9V1SH	Shuichi Hosokai	x
9V1SO	Sri Narayan Shukla	x
9V1ST	Tan Hoe Teck	x
9V1SV	Azhaga Muthu Siva	x
9V1TG	Timothy Goh	x
9V1TK	T. Kasahara, Kasa	x
9V1TT	Andrew Hodges
9V1VV	John Davies
9V1WP	Sai Wai Phyo
9V1XB	Patrick Tham	x
9V1XX	Kazuhiko Kurita	x
9V1YC	James Brooks	x
9V1YJ	Shigeyoshi Sasaki	x
9V1YL	Sally Woon	x
9V1YP	Chew Lip Heng	x
9V1YW	Yingwang Shi	x
9V1ZH	Tan Boen-Hian	x
9V1ZK	Fred Lee	x
9V1ZP	Ziyue Pan	x
9V1ZV	Daniel Wee	x
9V1ZW	Michael Davidson
9V1ZY	Loo Zheng Yuan	x
BG5IMH	Tao Zhu
OE3OGC	Sebastian Schiegl, Orion (Assoc.)	x
Assoc.	Ong Jun Xi	x
Assoc.	David Tan Qian Ting
Assoc.	Oshada Rodrigo
Assoc.	Cynch Guevara (Ms.)

SARTS membership list 2025
x = paid 2025

AGM to be held on 28 Jan 2021

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.
Any other business

SARTS History in Singapore

History

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.