TSGARC Christmas meal

Our TSGARC Christmas meal was at the Anchor in Thornbury this year.  It was well attended and everyone had a good evening.  The food was great.  I particularly liked the roast beef 🙂  Yum. Big thanks to Stan, G0RYM for making it…

Icom IC-7100 and GNSS Receiver

For some time I’ve been thinking about replacing the IC-706Mk2g in my pickup with a newer radio.  The obvious choice was a IC-7100 as it has all the same connectors, including that for the AH-4 auto-coupler.  As a bonus the radio…

RSGB 5G Network Talk

After last nights excellent and informative talk by Gary on Network systems in which a 5G was mentioned, there is a talk at the RSGB meeting in Redland on Monday 28th November by Prof Andrew Nix (University of Bristol) on…

Networking Talk

Well Wedensday 23rd November was a suprising talk by Garry (G7NVZ) on Networking  because it should have happened next Wedensday 30th November. Thanks Peter (M6KVA) for pointing it out. Shame he left it until after the talk to let me …

Returning to Amateur Radio

Just wanted to post this piece regarding how heartened I was to see so many old Amateurs returning to the hobby. In the past 3 weeks I guess I must have seen at least two or three per week (two…

The HF antenna…

So, most members should be aware by now that the old 40m dipole has been removed and replaced with a new 40m dipole!  The feedpoint 1:1 balun was also changed for good measure and sealed thoroughly for the winter. But this is…

An introduction to Amateur Radio

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…

Antenna Maintanance

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…

Advanced Course Jan 17

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 –…

JOTA 2016

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…