The Severn bridge was 50 years old this month. To commemorate its birthday the Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club (TSGARC) ran a special event station with the callsign GB4SBB throughout Thursday 8th September. The morning arrived, the weather gods smiled…
Today the TSGARC is running a special event station to celebrate 50 years of the Severn Bridge. The event is being held at Aust Services next to the bridge. The club will be using the callsign GB4SBB, if you hear…
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. …
TSGARC members will be setting up a special event station on the east side of the bridge at the Brightside observation point on Thursday 8th September 2016 at 9.30am transmitting until 5.30pm. We have set up a page on Qrz.com…
Members may be interested to read or download digitised back numbers of Wireless World and Practical Wireless. Some articles remain useful even now after 30, or more years. See the Wireless World selection here: Here is an extract from an…
Ever heard of Hackaday.com? Nope I hadn’t either so last night was ‘special’ 😉 Paul, M0ZMB, showed some decidedly old video’s from the website. The first couple were about Philips A63-11X cathode ray tube manufacture. These were followed by a short…
I have cancelled our room booking at the Chantry for the following dates: 1st Wednesday June 2017 (Foxhunt) 1st Wednesday July 2017 (Foxhunt) 27th December 2016 (Christmas week). Perhaps members would like to have a Christmas meal again this year as we did…
A problem we have experienced on several field days is that transmitted RF from a transmitter overpowers a nearby receiver despite it being on a different HF band or even on a more distant part of the spectrum. Band pass filters…
As some of you may be aware, last weekend I went to Guildford to attend this year’s EMF camp. Electromagnetic Field is a camping festival geared towards hackers and makers. The weekend is filled with interesting talks, demonstrations and crazy…
Folks You may be aware already but my call as of yesterday is now 2E0RKM Many thanks Mark