Greg Beacher 
Verulam Amateur Radio Club was saddened to hear that Sue Purchese has recently passed away. Sue was the wife of Derek Purchese (G3LXP) (SK) who was one of the founding members of our club. The funeral will be on March 3rd, at 13.40 in Garston Crematorium. Verulam Amateur Radio Club passes on their condolences to … Read more
In December 2016, the club held its annual pre-Christmas meeting which took the form of a ‘Bring and Buy’ accompanied by a seasonal finger buffet. As part of the ‘Bring and Buy’ there was an auction of some of the smaller items donated to the club, by club member John Welsh (G0NVZ), shortly before he … Read more
At the club meeting in July 2016, members were impressed, informed and entertained by a talk by club members Peter Neale (G3UHN) and John Lythgoe (G8CLY/5B4AAB) entitled ‘Everything you need to know as a New Amateur (that is not in the foundation licence course). The talk covered the use of test equipment both bought and … Read more
Whilst a Morse qualification is not needed by the present day licence, amateurs are realising that they are missing out on a lot of fun and DX by not using Morse, not to mention the fact that they are limiting themselves to part of the total amateur bandwidth available. Remember, CW is the easiest way … Read more
At the AGM in February, our club Chairman David G4HHJ, announced that the club was granting John Welsh G0NVZ, honorary membership of the club in recognition of the outstanding service he has given the club over very many years. He said John had made a major contribution by writing articles for the club’s monthly newsletters … Read more
Members of the Verulam Amateur Radio Club (VARC) were present at Sandringham School today to set up the publicity stand and club station as part of the schools Festival of Space which is running from the 5th to the 8th January.
The club is working with Sandringham School, St Albans, over its expected contact with Tim Peake, now aboard the International Space Station. A large part of Tim’s time on the ISS is being devoted to Educational Outreach.
The Club ran a ‘Foundation Licence’ course in December 2015 for five candidates. All passed with good marks. Three of the candidates were pupils from Sandringham School, St. Albans, who were taking the course in prep …
Club secretary, Peter (G4HSO), was the auctioneer when members offered their surplus equipment for sale at the club’s meeting in October. Several members donated equipment to the club for sale which is greatly appreciated. The event was well attended and the monies raised from the auctioneer’s commission have been put towards the purchase of a … Read more
Verulam Amateur Radio Club is sad to announce that Mike Hastings (G8ASI) passed away on Saturday, 26th September 2015. Mike was a long standing member of the verulam club and joined not long after it was formed. His main interest was VHF/UHF activity and he was featured on the front page cover of the Radcom in February … Read more
Verulam Amateur Radio Club is sad to announce that Brian Cockell (G8BJK) passed away on the 17th September 2015. Brian was a founder member of the club and is pictured here on the right receiving a book on the life and work of Guglielmo Marconi from Normal Fisher (G8ATO) at our 50th Anniversary Celebrations.
Seven candidates passed their Intermediate Level Examination in August following training by the club’s Lead Instructor Greg Beacher – M0PPG.
The Verulam Amateur Radio Club has worked closely with Sandringham School in preparing its bid to be able to take part in contacting UK astronaut Tim Peake during his mission to the International Space Station. We are pleased to learn the school has been successful in being short listed with seven other schools for a … Read more
Stan Ames (G4OAV) gave a talk to the club in July about World War II ‘Spies and Double Agents’ and the role Radio Amateurs played in detecting and countering their activities in the UK.
Members of the Club held a BBQ prior to the 50MHz contest on 20/21 June. The opportunity was taken for the old hands at contesting to introduce the club’s new members to the joys and challenges of such events. Pictured on the right is Marcus 2E0KIR, supporting John M6FJI. For both events, the club used … Read more
At its May meeting Roger Bleaney, M0RBK gave Verulam Amateur Radio Club members a talk entitled ‘Achieving DX contacts with Vertical Antennas (in a modest garden)’. He explained just what is achievable and encouraged quite a few Club members to re-think their installations. Even some of the older hands were impressed and some of the … Read more
At the April meeting of the Verulam Amateur Radio Club Roger Bleaney (M0RBK), and the new Training Co-ordinator, Greg Beacher (M0PPG), presented a summary of teaching needs for the past, present and future.
Seven candidates passed their Amateur Radio Foundation Course in April after taking a course run by Verulam Amateur Radio Club. The course was run as a set of on-line web seminars to help keep venue costs down.
Club Chairman, David Thomas (G4HHJ) gave an illustrated talk to its members in March on homemade beam antennas. The talk covered the history of the discovery of electro- magnetic waves and their successful propagation by Marconi. Different designs of antenna arrays were explained before addressing the practicalities of home construction using a wide range of … Read more
On the 21st June 2014 Verulam Amateur Radio Club set up a station at the mid-summer Gala held as part of the Sandridge 900+ celebrations. This was to mark the contributions made by Radio Amateurs at the nearby Woodstock Hill intercept station which operated during the second world war.
In February 2015 the Club’s Chairman David G4HHJ presented an award to Dr Roger Bleaney M0RBK (left in picture) for his outstanding work in running training courses in recent years for licence examinations.
Verulam ARC’s January club meeting attracted nearly a record number of its members to hear a talk by Alex Cunningham (M0HCL) on the history and development of the use of Morse Code.