The Hexbeam

Hi Andrew (G0RVM) here…  I really enjoy working HF portable due to a home that’s in a noisy urban conurbation and the joy of being out in the country, often with seriously impressive scenery all-around.  This post is about my recent…

Field weekend (1)

The Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club (TSGARC) held its first ever field weekend over the late May 2015 bank holiday weekend.  This post is the first of three that describes what happened, what went well, not so well and thoughts for…

Mobile Foxhunt

Gentlemen start your engines!! Our annual Mobile Fox Hunt will be next Wednesday 20th May. I have this evening chosen the Fox’s location after a lengthy search. Start time for the hunt will be 7:30pm with a CQ call on…

Calling notice for trailer tower painting

Gentlemen, The Trailer Tower to be used for the upcoming field weekend and hopefully other events is in dire need of some TLC. One of the tasks that can be completed by all is the painting of the bodywork. The…

Build you own kite

Rex has obtained the attached instruction to build you own Pythagoras Mega-kit Kite. The instructions look simple enough with cheap materials and a bit of nylon line you too could be lifting antennas into the sky. This link will take…

Kempton Park Rally

  A few hours later and reasonable journey with a few roadworks encountered and overcome later we arrived. Cup of coffee to start the motor and off we went. Andrew met his friend so went off exploring as did John…

Kite Antennas

The Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Kite Club had its inaugural meeting today at Whale Wharf where a number of kites were trialled. The testing was inspired by a recent talk from Roger G4ROJ. We also had a go…

Kites & the Wythall Rally

Calling all TSGARC members… Roger G4ROJ, who is giving us a talk about kite supported antennas on the 18th March [Make sure date is in your diary] will also be at the Wythall rally which takes place on 8th March and hopes to…

Antenna Matching by G0RVM

Announcement: Change to the TSGARC Programme. For some time now I’ve had it in mind to give a talk about the importance of matching the antenna to the radio and to identify some common myths.  I’ve dropped this into our programme…

TSGARC Programme update

I have secured us a new talk. Roger, G4ROJ has kindly agreed to come and give us a talk on kite supported antenna’s.  The presentation has been entered into programme for Wednesday 25th March 2015. Roger has been doing some amazing stuff…