The Fists CW club have some competitions (NOT CONTESTS)  organised for the bank holiday week and weekends 22nd to 27th of May. www. If you have a vintage radio and would like to Chirp and Drift or warm it up…

The Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club will hold its annual general meeting on Wednesday 3rd of April 2019. The timings will be 19:30 for 20:00 start. Agenda: Apologies for absence. Minutes of the previous AGM. Chairman’s report. Secretary’s…

Folks its been a while but thought I’d post a hello from the’ valleys’. Hope you are all well and I’m still enjoying keeping in touch on this web site. Planning a visit towards the end of March when Karen…

Well since John (M0HFH) posted in November on Smiths Charts and Mathematical Matching things have been moving on. There have been a couple of component builds. Some frustration, but a steady stream of improvements and knowledge gained. John (M0HFH) will…

For The past 2 weeks you may have noticed some activity at the top of the room , with instruments, a 2m copper tube dipole multiple VNA’s and computers. I am planning a project and talks on the practical application…

A great day at the Vale of Berkeley Railway. We managed 11 other heritage railways plus contacts UK and Europe  wide and into the Ukraine. Thanks to Owen for the antenna, radio and most of the contacts. Thanks to Rob…

We will be operating on Saturday 22nd September from the Vale of Berkeley Railway at Sharpness Docks. Postcode is GL13 9UD for the engine shed. I will be there about 0830 to get set up and we should be operating…

Due to a hardware issue on the earlier event we are running it again on September 12th 2018. As before the Fox will be Paul M0ZMB and he will hide somewhere around Thornbury. He will call in on 145.500 and…

Tonight is the clubs annual pedestrian foxhunt around Thornbury. I will probably start from the Rock Street Car Park  as it  is slightly raised to find Paul M0ZMB the fox.. I am also going to have APRS running to se…

This evening two beacons will be operating from 19.30pm to enable testing of 2m ARDF equipment for the Pedestrian fox hunt on the 1 Beacon 1 will be low power < 0.5 watts from the Chantry Gardens Frequency 144.525 mode…