A talk titled “Mike’s home-brew bits and pieces”. Over-voltage monitoring, crowbar and reverse polarity protection, UNUN and BALUN construction.

Our new-look website launched on the 10th of October.

Congratulations to Ellis on gaining your Full Licence ! (M5EOB)

We have another operating and social evening this week. A member will be bringing a morse trainer, the MK4 FMT to demonstrate to those learning morse at the moment.

Operating and social evening. We will be continuing our experimenting with SSTV using mobile phone apps to encode and decode the signals and 2m handhelds to do the RF part. We will be testing some cables which link the phone…

We will be having a JOTA update (Jamboree On The Air). JOTA/JOTI is the world’s largest digital Scout event, held annually on the third full weekend of October. This year it’s on the 17th & 18th October. Our club will…

Tonight is an operating and social evening. Some members will be using smartphones to encode/decode SSTV images with the sounds being sent over handheld radios on the 2m band. These count towards the RSGB Brickworks awards.

At our weekly club meeting on 9th Sept, we had a talk and demonstration on using smartphone apps to encode and decode images for SSTV. These just use the phone’s mic and speaker to send and receive audio via a…

The field weekend at Berkeley was an outstanding success and was enjoyed by everyone that attended. We were blessed with excellent weather. Many thanks to all those involved with organising and running, and to everyone who came.

We have a daily net on GB3ZB repeater (you can also listen on 430.825 Mhz FM) at 10:30-11:00am. We also have a weekly net on Friday evenings, 20:00 to 21:00, on 145.500 Mhz FM, usually moving to 145.550 if free.…