JOTA 2016 Announcement
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,…
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club
RSGB Convention 2016 update
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…
VHF Propagation
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…
VHF Propagation talk
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.
RSGB Convention 2016
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.…
SDR Overview and futures
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.
Happy Birthday Severn Bridge
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…
Severn Bridge Special Event Station
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…
VHF (2m) gets busy…
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. …
Celebration of 50 years of the Severn Crossing GB4SBB special event.
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…