If you run a club and would like to have details of courses or events you are holding listed here, please e-mail us with the details.

The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS)runs training courses for the Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced exam. The courses held at the Danbury Village Hall near Chelmsford on Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 pm. The PowerPoint slides for all the courses are available for download from the club website. To find out more speak to Clive G1EUC Tel: 01245-224577 Mob: 07860-418835 Email: training2010@g0mwt.org.uk Web: www.g0mwt.org.uk/training/

Foundation Intermediate Advanced courses We do not charge for the courses and have been running as an exam center for over 6 years. Please visit the new forum at http://warc.smfforfree.com/index.php Windsor Ct, Anne Crescent, Waterlooville, Hants PO77BX Tel: 02392680852 Email: warc.1@ntlworld.com

The Verulam Amateur Radio Club (st Albans) will be holding a six week Foundation training course starting on Wednesday 28th October 2009 at 7.30pm. The examination will be held on December 9th. The all-inclusive fee (RSGB,"Foundation Licence Now!" book, other materials and the exam fee) is just £25. Please contact Chris (G6CMD) on VARC_TrainingUK@yahoogroups.com or phone Brian (G3YKB) on 01923 228121 to book a place.

The Chesham & District  Amateur Radio Society will be holding a Foundation Training course, (both theory and practical) and we will be holding the training sessions, spread over three Sunday afternoon sessions, with the written Examination being held on the following Sunday These are the training dates: September 27th – Ist Session  October 4th – Practical Assessments October 11th– 3rd Session October 18th – Examination The training would be given by  (Terry G0VFW) and fellow instructor Roger Piper G3MEH. The Foundation Training Course would be held in the White Hill Centre, White Hill Chesham HP5 1AG.  The RSGB Foundation exam fee is £22.50, and the course fee, to cover room hire costs, is £25 (£12.50 if you are a student under 21 yrs.) There is a “Foundation Licence Now!” Book available from the RSGB priced at £4.99, which we will be using as the Course training book, and can be purchased from the Chesham Club. Any candidates who would be interested in attending these training sessions,  send me a completed application form downloadable from  http://www.rsgb.org/tutors/general/pdf/catce.pdf . Please send the completed form and two Cheques or PO, One for £22.50 payable to Radio Society of Great Britain”, plus a cheque or postal order for £25 (£12.50 if you are a student under 21 yrs.) made out to “Chesham & District Amateur Radio Society” The address to send the completed application and payments is as follows: Mr Terry Thirlwell G0VFW - 58 Chesham Road, Bovingdon, HERTS HP3 0EA   When I receive your completed CATCE form and payment, I will send you details of the Training Syllabus, Map of the location of the White Hill Centre and Course Times ,Etc. Thanks  and hope to see you at the Foundation Training. Terry Thirlwell G0VFW - Secretary Chesham & District Amateur Radio Society cdars.club@ntlworld.com

Meets every Tuesday night From: 7:30pm to 10:30pm Sully Sports & Social Club, South Road, Sully, South Wales We have a fully equipped shack. From HF to UHF in SSB- CW- plus full DATA Modes for yet more fun. All the HF RF goes into a 7 Element Beam at 60 feet for your enjoyment. This RF can be warmed up with an Amp for full legal power output if you need that little bit extra in a contest or DX-ing For more information about our group go to www.bars.btik.com

Foundation Course

The next Foundation Course will be 20/21st September

Our last course we had 12 successful candidates

Intermediate Course

An Intermediate Course will take place in Tuition Weekend 10/11 May Practical and exam Sunday 1st June.

On our last course all 11 candidates successfully passed.

To apply for a course

Applications forms to Steve Elliott, Please contact Steve if you are interested in our next Course.
For the Foundation and Intermediate Courses and the Advanced Examination contact the Exam Secretary:

Mr Steven Elliott, M0SEL.
Westbury,
50 West End Road,
Mortimer,
Berkshire,
RG7 3TH.
Telephone Monday to Friday 20:00-22:00 Saturday and Sunday 1000-22:00 Telephone Number 07799 897 839
Email: s_elliot293@btinternet.com

All forms can be downloaded on line here: http://www.nadars.org.uk/courses.asp

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

Intermediate Course

• Feb 17, 24, Mar 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 (Exam Mar 31) Intermediate Apr 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19 (Exam May 19)
• (Provisional and subject to changes as courses are arranged on number of applications)
• Course with exam £57.00

To apply for either course please

• Telephone 0870 760 5082 (answer phone)
• Email g0ofn@msn.com
• Visit us on Friday club night

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. We have also updated our ‘Friday evening club schedule’ and that information is also on our web page

Our location can be found on 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

KARS started only in January 2008 but is proving to be a great success and is growing well. We meet every first and third Wednesday of the month at the Scottish Scout Headquarters, Fordell Firs, Hillend, Dunfermline. Visitors are, of course, most welcome but, because of the nature of the site we meet upon, they must contact us on mm0xbd@kars.org.uk first. Further information is available at http://www.kars.org.uk

The Burnham Beaches Radio club meets every first and third Monday of the month at Farnham Common Village Hall, Victoria Road, Farnham Common. The club participates in a wide range of amateur radio activities and runs regular courses for those wishing to get on the air. For more information contact Charles on 01753 861115, visit our website at http://come.to/bbrc  or email us bbrcinfo@btconnect.com