Greg Beacher 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.