At the Club this week (30th September 2026)

Operating and social evening. We will be continuing our experimenting with SSTV using mobile phone apps to encode and decode the signals and 2m handhelds to do the RF part. We will be testing some cables which link the phone…

At the club tonight (23rd September 2026)

We will be having a JOTA update (Jamboree On The Air). JOTA/JOTI is the world’s largest digital Scout event, held annually on the third full weekend of October. This year it’s on the 17th & 18th October. Our club will…

At the club tonight (16th September 2026)

Tonight is an operating and social evening. Some members will be using smartphones to encode/decode SSTV images with the sounds being sent over handheld radios on the 2m band. These count towards the RSGB Brickworks awards.

SSTV Demo

At our weekly club meeting on 9th Sept, we had a talk and demonstration on using smartphone apps to encode and decode images for SSTV. These just use the phone’s mic and speaker to send and receive audio via a…

Field Weekend

The field weekend at Berkeley was an outstanding success and was enjoyed by everyone that attended. We were blessed with excellent weather. Many thanks to all those involved with organising and running, and to everyone who came.

Club Nets

We have a daily net on GB3ZB repeater (you can also listen on 430.825 Mhz FM) at 10:30-11:00am. We also have a weekly net on Friday evenings, 20:00 to 21:00, on 145.500 Mhz FM, usually moving to 145.550 if free.…

Field Weekend

The club will be holding our annual field weekend on the 22nd and 23rd of August at Berkeley. With lots of space available to us, we will be able to build and experiment with antennas that are too big to…

Club Night Wednesday 12th August

Brickworks and RSGB Our South West regional RSGB representative visited the club to presentBrickworks certificates to three of our members. Well done to you all. Pictures and a few paragraphs have been submitted to the RadCom magazine.