There are several Amateur Radio clubs in the region: MidSARC – The Mid Somerset Amateur Radio Club. The South Bristol Amateur Radio Club The North Bristol ARC. The Yeovil ARC. The Trowbridge ARC. …and a few others that I may have missed (apologies to those I have missed).
Why not turn up at one of our meeting? We’re a friendly lot, and can answer your questions. Becoming a radio amateur is not difficult; there are several levels of amateur radio: Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced. As you might guess, Foundation level is the easiest, and advanced is the hardest. There is no requirement to…
Amateur’s use Morse Code, Most people don’t understand Morse While true that a lot of amateurs can and do use Morse code, not all can or do. Morse is just one of many different ways that amateurs use radio. As well as Morse, there is Voice communication using AM, FM, SSB, digital, there is slow…
Well, quite a lot really. Everything that uses radio waves – mobile phones, WiFi, TV, Microwave ovens, broadcast radio. All these wouldn’t be around if not for amateurs. When radio waves were first discovered it was just a curiosity with no practical applications at the time. They were not very controllable and equipment to produce…
Amateur radio is different things to different people as there are many aspects to amateur radio. The aspect that a lot of people think of, when they think of amateur radio at all, is Morse code. They think of people sitting in front of a radio with headphones on, clicking away at a Morse key.…
******* Bath Repeaters Threat Eased ******* The threat of closedown of the Bath 70cms FM voice repeater GB3UB, the TV repeater GB3UT and the APRS repeater MB7UB seems to have eased a bit. It is still possible that they may have to move to a different location on the University campus but the imminent…
This month Steve M0SBY will be bringing his collection of flying machines to show us what they can do. It’ll be dark so all the flying will be inside the hall but hopefully Steve will get there a bit early and record some shots of the outside of the hall and surrounding area.
If you are in the RSGB you might have read the recent article in Radcom on so called Network Radios and describing some of the apps that can be installed on them (or on your phone or PC). This month John, G4OTJ, discussed this relatively new form of push to talk communication and had a…
Several members have shown interest in learning CW and at least two of us who passed the 12 WPM morse test some years ago and hardly used it since would like to re-learn so we have decided to hold an introductory session at the club meeting in November and follow it up with further classes…
For the September meeting we invited some valve equipment enthusiasts to come along and bring examples of their collections. We had several examples of early communications receivers, mostly working and a good display of loose valves to pick up and discuss.