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…
Yesterday myself, Andrew, Graham, Rex, John and John spent the day at the Chantry renovating the club’s antenna systems. Our plan for the day was to inspect the existing antenna systems, replace a section of coax between the attic and…
Well its now official…sent off this morning and I am registered on the Advanced course in Jan with Steve Hartley in Bath. Work now begins although I have been reading the RSGB book now for a couple of months –…
This year we setup various elements of amateur radio at 1st Olveston Scout Group HQ. The station consisted of HF, VHF, UHF, CW, SDR & Flight Radar. The callsign used for this event was GB1OSG. Friday was setup time, this…
This weekend the club is excited to be hosting another Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) event. We will be based at the 1st Olveston Scout hall from Friday through to Sunday. We plan to set up stations covering VHF, HF, SDR,…
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…
Members who attended tonight had a talk about the types of propagation commonly used at VHF by radio amateurs. The slideware from the talk, along with material from other talks, may be found in the Lecture notes section of the…
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.