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Newbury and district Foundation and Intermediate courses

Whitton Amateur Radio Group

GX0MIN or M2W

Whitton Community Centre
Percy Road, Whitton, Middlesex, TW2 6JL

Foundation Course

• Starting Wednesday 6th February 2008 with exam on 19th March 2008
• 7 Wednesday evenings
• Course with exam £52.00

Intermediate Course

• Starting Wednesday 6th April 2008 with exam on 14th May 2008
• 7 Wednesday evenings
• Course with exam £57.00

To apply for either course please

• e-mail Chris at chris@the-grooms.com
• or telephone 0870 760 5082

Whitton Amateur Radio Group in West London is a registered examination centre for all levels of license and at the present time is offering courses for the Foundation and Intermediate levels.

Whitton is not offering an 'Advanced' examination course at present, but plan to offer revision evenings before each exam.
Whitton Amateur Radio Group welcomes visitors or new members and we meet every Friday from about 8.00 until Late.

Please have a look at our web page

www.warg.info

An impressive looking 50-year old home-made amateur station housed at Muckleburgh has been brought back to life by members of the North Norfolk Amateur Radio Group. The station was built by Wing Commander Ieuan Edward Hill G6HL in the 1950’s to the highest professional standards and he continued using it until he died in 1997. In 2000, his daughter, Rosemary Cox, donated the equipment to the Group where it has been on static display in the “Radio Hut” at the museum ever since.

When donating the equipment, Mrs Cox wrote: “One of my late Father’s dearest wishes was that his radio equipment should be …..used where possible, be learnt from and enjoyed by a future generation.” The Group has always intended to honour that wish but pending restoration to full working order the station has been used as a Morse practice desk for visiting children who are shown how to send their names in the code, and awarded certificates for their achievement.



G6HL obtained his first radio receiving licence in 1925, and his first experimental transmitting licence in 1928. His first call was 6HL, becoming G6HL soon after when prefix letters were added to call signs to indicate the country where a station was located. Accompanying the station is an historic collection of QSL cards, dating from 1928 to 1997, recording and confirming the huge number of contacts G6HL made around the world, including many from countries with names that no longer exist.

While the museum was closed during the winter, 2007/2008, members of the Group, led by Bill Ward G4NRE, have been working to finally get the station back on the air. With a lack of written instructions and the great number of knobs, switches, sockets and connecting leads on the equipment, often unmarked, it has not been an easy task but success came on 13th December 2007 when Bill exchanged greetings on 20m with F4EIT using the Group’s permanent special event call GB2MC. For those present, it was an exciting and truly memorable occasion hearing this magnificent piece of equipment come back to life.

Further work was needed, however, to make it fully operational and this has now been completed. It is hoped to put the station on the air regularly when the Radio Hut is open to visitors in 2008 and to make many contacts worldwide using both SSB and CW. Unusually the station has SSB capability which was rare in the early 1950s when the mode was only just coming into use in the UK and there can be few, if any, amateur SSB stations of that era still in use. It would be interesting to know of any others are still on the air and their operators are asked to contact G4NRE (who became the Group’s new chairman at its AGM in January 2008) to let him know of their existence and arrange a two-way vintage sked!

The Group welcomes new members who have time to spend up to a day a week at Muckleburgh.

New Officers
At the annual general meeting on 28th January 2008, the following officers were elected.
Chairman, Bill Ward G4NRE; Treasurer, Bill Green G4DMB; PRO, Tony Smith G4FAI;
Secretary, Bob Finch G0HYZ has agreed to become Secretary.

Contact details
Chairman: Bill Ward G4NRE - Tel: 01603 487047 - E-mail: g4nre(at)yahoo.com
PRO: Tony Smith G4FAI - Tel: 01263 821936 - E-mail: g4fai(at)btinternet.com

Address
c/o The Radio Hut, The Muckleburgh Collection, Weybourne, HOLT, Norfolk, NR25 7EG

Information about events, etc can be found on NNARG website

They are a small but friendly club with a wide range of interests and experience. Visitors and new members are always welcome. Regular events take place throughout the year.

Information about events, etc can be found on their website

We are currently running the following courses at the club:- Foundation Intermediate Full and for those who are interested, a Morse class. Courses are FREE to fully paid up club members.

Full details can be found on our web site www.gw6gw.co.uk