Kempton Park Rally

  A few hours later and reasonable journey with a few roadworks encountered and overcome later we arrived. Cup of coffee to start the motor and off we went. Andrew met his friend so went off exploring as did John…

Royal Corps signals

Please find the information for the forthcoming visit to Blandford Royal Corps of Signals B-Visit-Pro-Forma Details 2015   Rex G4RAE

Kite Antennas

The Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Kite Club had its inaugural meeting today at Whale Wharf where a number of kites were trialled. The testing was inspired by a recent talk from Roger G4ROJ. We also had a go…

Field-day Weekend. Update 2

On Thursday April 9th, Rex, John and Andrew went to view the field that the TSGARC will be using for its three-day extravaganza.  It was such a warm, sunny day that we could not resist the temptation too do some…

Field-day Weekend. Update 1

Hopefully we are all aware that the club is running a 3-day portable operating weekend  between May 23-25th. Planning is underway and we have a large field with a good low-noise floor, large tents and some masts, antenna’s, radio’s etc.…

Kempton rally flyer

Just a reminder folks that we are going to the Kempton rally on 19th April…. Final travel arrangements will be made this coming Wednesday (15th April) so please ensure you make your interest known on the clubs wipe board or…

Time Signals

NIST, the American National Institute of Standards and Technology are responsible for many things but one service which as radio amateurs we may associate to them is the broadcast of time and frequency information 24 hours a day from their radio station,…

Space Station SSTV

ARISS (Amateur radio on the International Space Station) has announced that slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions are planned for Cosmonautics Day on Saturday April 11th.  Cosmonauts Day is in celebration of the first human to reach space,  Yuri Gagarin on 12th…

World Amateur Radio Day

Courtesy of the ARRL: On Saturday, April 18, radio amateurs worldwide will take to the airwaves to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day (WARD). It was on April 18, 1925, that the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) was founded in Paris, with ARRL…

Member directory

Members, you may have noticed our website now has a ‘Contact’ option on the top menu?  You need to be logged in to use it otherwise you will just get a message reminding you of that fact!  But if logged-in…