Peter King Registration is now open for Maritime Radio Day 2024 which takes place annually on the 14th and 15th of April. The event is held to commemorate the almost 100 years of wireless telegraphy service for seafarers which ended with the closure in the UK of Portishead Radio on the 30th of April 2000. Commencing at … Read more
Chris, WA7RAR will be active as 8P9CB from Barbados, NA-021, until the 25th of January. Most of his operations will be portable at various locations, especially Parks on the Air sites. He will be QRV on the 20 to 10m bands using CW and SSB. QSL via Logbook of the World, or directly to WA7RAR. … Read more
The Canvey Rally will be held on Sunday the 4th of February at Cornelius Vermuyden [VER-MOW-DEN] School, Dinant Avenue, Canvey, Essex, SS8 9QS. The Rally is expected to be the usual hive of activity with plenty of traders on site. For more information contact Richard Stanley on 07725 551 263 or email g7oed@icloud.com
Two RSGB Convention presentations have been published on YouTube over the Christmas holidays. In the first, Nobby Styles, G0VJG describes the challenging and hazardous DXpedition to Europe’s rarest IOTA location, Rockall Island. The second presentation, by David Lauder, G0SNO, outlines the RSGB EMC Committee investigations into sources of RF electrical interference from recent developments in … Read more
VARC is now running two remote radios from our cabin site. They are both using the ‘Remotehams’ software and seem to be running very well. If you have not used our remote before then why not take a look. To operate the stations you will need to be a member of VARC and your call … Read more
Earlier this week, Ofcom released a document titled “Updating the amateur radio licensing framework”. The document states that amateur radio licences will be changing in 2024 and provides details of the changes that are planned. These include adjustments to the overall licensing framework and rules in a number of areas including callsigns, technical parameters, and … Read more
The UK Six Metre Group Winter Marathon is underway. The objective is to work as many four-digit grid squares as possible, between 0000UTC on the 1st of December 2023 and 2359UTC on the 31st January 2024, on the 6m band. Logs can be submitted until 12 February 2024. For more information visit uksmg.org
Youngsters on the Air month has now begun. Callsign GB23YOTA is active for the duration of the month, with a range of groups, clubs and individuals having reserved operating slots. It will be on the air between 8am and 5pm. Sandringham School will be active on Wednesday the 6th of December between 8am and 4pm, as … Read more
We continue to help bring newcomers into amateur radio and the club. In mind at the moment A) Calum M7??? – Calum is a student; I don’t yet have his callsign but he has our congratulations. B) Ivor M7EZM (Ivor lives in St Albans and again is recently licenced and has offered to do a … Read more
We desperately need to locate a new and more central venue for our more formal meeting/presentations/club projects. Several of us have spent quite some time hunting around but get little either little response from queries, expensive quotes in large (cold?) rooms etc. It would be great if someone could step up and push this forward … Read more