Due to the current weather conditions and Met Office Weather warnings for heat it has been decided to postpone the talk by John M0HFH on antennas. Instead the club will be open for an operating and social night.
At 20:00 local time we will be calling on the local repeater GB3WR using the club call GX4ABC, after that other frequencies may get used.
A change to tonights programme!
John (M0HFH) & Martyn (M9VMT) will be talking about antennas for field day and the club infrastructure.
Stan (G0RYM) has answers from questions and follow up to last weeks WAB Talk.
Neil (G8NJL) and Sam (M7LGY) talking about their SOTA activation.
Sam (M7LGY) is going to describe his experience building a Yagi.
Updated 23-04-2026 By Terry (M0TJX)
Following the 2026 AGM the following members have been appointed to the committee
The changes include a new Chairman Terry (M0TJX), Secretary (Paul M0PVL) and Ord Member Paul (G6OIA).
The 2026-27 Committee is:
| Chair | Terry Humphreys | M0TJX |
| Vice Chair | John Rowden | M0HFH |
| Secretary | Paul Robinson | M0PVL |
| Treasurer | Garry Moore | G7NVZ |
| Ord 1 | Martyn Thompson | M9VMT |
| Ord 2 | Jane Sheppard | M7JAE |
| Ord 3 | Paul Rattenbury | G6OIA |
Paul M7WOX will be giving a talk about LoRa Mesh tonight
This in place of the talk by Paul M0ZMB & Peter G4OST on Standing Wavw Ratio (SWR) which will be rescedhuled.
The rearranged programme has been added to the site. Please be aware that due to ongoing roadworks around Thornbury this may be subject to change.
The club AGM for 2026 will take place at 20:00 on Wednesday 8th of April 2026 at The Chantry.
The AGM has been pushed back a week due to local parking and access issues for the first Wednesday of the month.
Nominations are requested from members for election to the committee. The positions available are:
Annual membership fees are due before the AGM.
A couple of prospective new members came to the club and a discussion was had about LoRa WAN. A few club members have now setup a few nodes for LoRa WAN using MeshCore code. Paul (M0ZMB) had been experimenting for a few years, along with all his other projects.
LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is a low-power, wide-area networking protocol designed to wirelessly connect battery-operated “things” to the internet in regional, national, or global networks. It targets key IoT requirements such as secure, bidirectional communication, mobility, and localization services, operating in unlicensed radio spectrums.
LoRaWAN is designed for low-bitrate, sporadic data transmission, making it perfect for sensors that only need to send small amounts of data periodically.
TSGARC is closed until the new year.
We return again on the 7th January 2026.
Due to building works in the Buckingham Room our usual room will not be available on 10th December 2025.
Tonight we will be in the Slymbridge Room which is in the main building on the ground floor.
Tonight 26th November 2025 Rick M0LEP will be giving his rescheduled talk on SOTA