All, Please note that the frequency of the Swindon 70cm FM Repeater, GB3TD will be changing on Sunday 20th February. Details below. As with the last frequency change, the club will be holding a 'bring

Calum just released a video where he tested accessing various repeaters at various heights. Interesting results from the WH repeater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP3_Rkr9Z8M

I thought the Newbury Rally was not on this year but a look at the NADARS web site says it is on on 26th July - which happens to be the same weekend as Friedrichshafen. Also, as advised by Peter, 2E0C

Was speaking to Dom, 2E0WHQ, on this evenings Net, GB3WH. I wasn't able to come to the presentation, last Thursday on antenna analysers. I have a Nano VNA and would appreciate some help with it. I kno

Hi Graham, Please can you check your 70cm FMAC log entry. It's showing that you haven't assigned the points to the club: Please can you check and resubmit if necessary? Thanks, 73 Dom, 2E0WHQ

Just in case some of you haven't spotted this, at all license levels, you can apply for a NoV (Notice of Variation) to use the secondary regional locator ‘Q’ to mark the Platinum Jubilee of the Queen.

Following on from Den's excellent talk about Nano VNAs, I thought I'd post the details of the version which Mike, G4HGV, Roy, G4VWG and I have. We all have the Nano VNA V2, SSA-2N, which has the metal

Hi all, but particularly Geoff, 2E0HFV. Seems as though VM/NTLW have tightened their spam filters. Been trying to send/reply to an email to Geoff but it shows as FAILED with an error VM603, to do with

Hi All, I was just checking the logs entered for the 2m FMAC contest last week and it appears that there are two logs from club members which have been entered, but the points have not been assigned t

Hi All, After nearly two years of running the Friday evening 6m, FM Net on 51.500Mhz, we have notice that we have made a small error in selecting the operating frequency. All of us failed to notice 'N

A lot of us suffer with limited space to put up antennas. One of the simplest antennas is an end-fed long wire. If you want a EFLW to have the capabilities to tune across multiple bands, using an ATU,

Those who are interested in obtaining one of the BALUNS mentioned, don't worry if you can't get one as there will be a few available shortly via SDARC (more correctly from me!).

Hi All, The results of the RSGB 144Mhz FMAC have just been released and it shows a fantastically strong presence of the Swindon & District Amateur Radio Club. In the first outing this year, we ended u

With the results not out yet for the first FMAC of the year, I thought it would be interesting to review the logs received page and total them per club. You will see we were out in force. Our club mad

Hi all, Please find below the links and details of contest info and tips form my presentation last night: 30 contesting tips https://qrznow.com/30-ham-radio-contesting-tips-k9jy/ Planning tools Solar

Hi All, Since last week's 2m FMAC, there has been a lot of talk about the amount of adjacent channel interference during the contest. Paul, G6UAJ found this short but interesting article in the August

Hi all I am thinking of entering the FMAC contests and therefore I will need to buy 2m and 70cms antennas. They must be suitable for portable working (Sat in my car) I have a strong portable mast syst

Happy New Year and good DX to everyone. Hopefully see some of you second week in January - isolations permitting. 73 Tony, G4LDL.

Hmm, with 2 LFT positives in the house and 10 days self isolation that will cover next week's contests - but don't usually see anyone on Liddington at this time of year! Fingers crossed! LDL.

The results of the 2021 RSGB 70cm FMAC are finally in. What an absolutely fantastic performance by the Club. As predicted we managed to absolutely trounce the competition in the final contest scoring