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…

G0RVM goes to EU-010

Andrew, G0RVM will be off to Harris in the Outer Hebrides during the first two weeks of August.  He will be operating on HF and will be  happy to work TSGARC members. He will be operating from: IOTA: EU-010 Loc:…

A visit to Ron Weedon

Sunday Morning 15th September 2013 Rex (G4RAE) and John (M0hfh) spent an hour practising Morse code before setting off to visit one of the clubs older members Ron Weedon who is 90 this year. Ron was donating some of his…