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Have you wondered how to get your picture, your avatar, shown alongside your replies to news posts in our News section?  Well, you need to create a Gravitar (A Globally Recognised Avatar). A Gravitar is a small image that is…

Museum of Internal Fire

Whilst on holiday to the west coast of Wales I set aside some time to visit the Museum of internal fire; from our participation in the Museums On The Air event earlier in the year I knew they had set…

G0RVM does VP8CES……

This coming Wednesday I will be doing a presentation about my trip to the bottom of our little planet in 1991 when I had the opportunity to create some really big pile-ups as VP8CES at Halley research station! The presentation will…

JOTA 2014

Detail of the TSGARC and GARES sponsored 1st Wotton Scout Group JOTA 2014 event has been added to the TSGARC program here. Paul M0ZMB

The Dipole Antenna

There is a good introductory segment by Gordon West, WB6NOA to the dipole antenna, the benefits of a resonant vs non-resonant antenna and a discussion of other simple wire antenna’s near the start of the the latest Ham Nation episode.  We…

Club 2m net

The club net will be on Friday @  20:00hrs local.  Starting on the FM calling channel (145.500MHz) then moving to a free channel.

Re-Validate your Callsign

All members are reminded to re-validate their Amateur Radio Licence at the OFCOM website before OFCOM starts to remove licences. Roger M6BUQ will be arranging an evening to assist members with this task. Please bring with you any logon details you…

Its On-Air Night!

A quick peek at the Programme tells me is On-Air night this coming Wednesday 27th August…. Members of the club will know that we have a VHF and UHF collinear plus a full-size dipole for 40mtrs permanently erected at the…

Data Modes Lecture

Don’t forget tomorrow night we have a lecture by Paul, M0ZMB, about Data Modes in amateur radio.  So, if you don’t know the difference between PSK, RTTY, Thor or Hellschreiber or your DM-780 from your FLDigi then make sure you…

Pizza at Paul’s

It turns out that our chairman has his own pizza oven – how cool is that? 🙂 Paul was exceedingly kind and invited the club around on Sunday for home made pizza and drinks. Thanks Paul, it was a great…