Over the last few months the committee have authored Terms of Reference or ToRs for their roles. These record the responsibilities of members who undertake committee roles both currently and into the future on behalf of the TSGARC. A little terminology: A…
Our TSGARC Christmas meal was at the Anchor in Thornbury this year. It was well attended and everyone had a good evening. The food was great. I particularly liked the roast beef 🙂 Yum. Big thanks to Stan, G0RYM for making it…
For some time I’ve been thinking about replacing the IC-706Mk2g in my pickup with a newer radio. The obvious choice was a IC-7100 as it has all the same connectors, including that for the AH-4 auto-coupler. As a bonus the radio…
So, most members should be aware by now that the old 40m dipole has been removed and replaced with a new 40m dipole! The feedpoint 1:1 balun was also changed for good measure and sealed thoroughly for the winter. But this is…
I really love this little movie from Essex Ham. The Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club (TSGARC) has an active Foundation and Intermediate amateur radio training programme. We do this on Wednesday evenings from our clubhouse at the Chantry in…
Myself G0RVM and Peter 2E0UAR attended the RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes this year. We left Bristol around 15:30hrs but got stuck in jam after jam. Towards the end of the journey ‘here comes another set of blue lights’ was…
Andrew, G0RVM will be giving a talk on VHF Propagation this Wednesday evening (5th Oct) starting at 19:45 hours. The talk will be an introduction to the most common modes of propagation at VHF and their use by radio amateurs.
The RSGB 2016 Convention will be held at the Kents Hill Conference centre in Milton Keynes again this year on the 8th and 9th October. It is a weekend of lectures spanning many topics of interest to all radio amateurs.…
A short SDR video from a Friedrichshafen 2016 lecture. In the video Phil Harman, VK6PH outlines different SDR architectures their associated benefits/dis-benefits and has a look at future use of CUDA instead of FPGAs.
Strange hot weather but good conditions on 2m 🙂 Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th September very busy on 2m. At times tonight every 10kHz step and often 5kHz step was busy. Great to see Worked F8IQS in Caen on CW. …