Folks,
Check out your 4 metre gear on the Reading 4 metre net on Tuesday evenings, 8:30pm, 70.425 MHz FM. All welcome!
I forgot to give it a plug on the Sunday GB2RS News net on the same frequency (9:00am news reading followed by net at 9:25ish) so this is to make up.
73
John
G4RDC
Folks,
Next club meet is Thursday 9th February at Woodford Park, 8pm as usual.
Adam Juniper will give an introduction into the world of drones and advice on how to get started.
I wonder if it’s possible to string a top band vertical from one of those things….or whether it’s possible to get them to lift a line to the top of a tree for antenna stringing. Might even be safer than the traditional catapult.
Look forward to seeing you there and exploring the possibilities of these fascinating flying machines.
Refreshments to be served as usual.
cheers
John
G4RDC
Over the Christmas break I was lucky enough to be invited to a small private radio museum in Southern Hungary. I took a few pictures to look at if anyone is interested. There is one ‘propaganda box’ with featured a selected switch for tuning so that only approved stations could be heard! Naturally people hope modified them. I wish I had room to do this at my QTH! 73, Simon M0ZSU
Folks,
Next RADARC meeting is on Thursday 26th January at Woodford Park as
usual, 8pm.
In a talk entitled ‘Life on the Other Side’ Steve Venner, G0TAN/W6TAN,
will give us an insight into what happens behind the doors of one of the
country’s biggest ham radio dealers. With a focus on the workshop.
There’s opportunity for lots of discussion here about the past, present
and future of commercial amateur radio gear so I am sure it will be an
enjoyable and informative evening.
I can also be certain you’ll all be asking for discounts and I can
probably be even more certain what the answer will be 🙂
Sadly I won’t be able to make this one but I’m confident refreshments
will be served as usual.
cheers,
John
G4RDC
The RADARC Annual General Meeting was held at Woodford park on Thursday the 8th of December. A great evening was had by all and was kicked off by Simon M0ZSU, and we started with a Chairman’s report. Overall the club has had its challenges over the last year however we have managed thanks to the brilliant help from volunteers from the rest of the membership.
We have a thriving membership of 87 members and we have been growing steadily.
Over the last year, a team of volunteers from the membership have formed a new group that was to take over the organisation of meetings. This worked out well even with the shift of Simon to being Chairman after the unfortunate loss of our previous Chairman, Pete Milton, G8FRC.
We also now have a new website setup by James 2E0JPM which will bring us new functionality and options for the future.
Our plans for a club shack are also still on the table and we are looking to re-start this project soon.
We plan to have much more variety and new styles of talks/evenings in the coming year and hope that we can develop the club to entice new members, young and old.
The New committee was confirmed with a vote by membership lead by Nick Challcombe. All of the committee have been “sworn in” for another year. The new (and old) committee were thanked with a large round of applause from the membership.
Overall, we as a committee would like to say thank you to the membership for their support and understanding over the past year. It has been a struggle but we have coped well. We look forward to the next year, 2017, and hopefully we can grow the club and the hobby.
Join us throughout 2017 for new and exciting talks!
At the end of the AGM we had the Trophy and award presentations and finally Cheese and wine!
Below are some photos from the evening:
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On Wednesday the 23rd of November a group of members from RADARC headed down to find out more about the Reading Hackspace, known as “rLab”.
Upon arrival at the small industrial area in the centre of Reading, a small unit with nothing more than a door and a couple of windows sits quietly in the otherwise dead industrial area.
It is 8pm and we approach the door to be greeted by a member of rLab. They led us up the stairs and told us that there would be someone around to give us a tour. My first thoughts… WOW…
The first room we came to was the electronics and desk area. People are sat working all around the room on everything from CAD designs and soldering through to Hard disk recovery and coding. We instantly started asking questions and getting to know a little bit about the group.
Once someone became available we were led around the building being shown all of the awesome equipment, tools and machinery they have there. It was one hell of an eye opener to see that this whole community runs off membership donations and kindness. There were lathes, laser cutters, 3D printers and much more.
We then went back upstairs to the electronics/workbench area and “mingled”. There were some people playing around with LED light boards, clocks, Raspberry Pi’s, Arduino’s, Hard disks, coding on (very) old hardware and much more. We got a demo of the laser cutter which was seriously cool too!
All in all it was a very nice evening and we all look forward to getting to know the hackspace community. We hope that they will also come to find out more about RADARC in the near future. As always, everyone is welcome!
Stay tuned for more posts about our events in the future!
Written by James 2E0JPM
This is my personal page to remember which things need fixing/changing before this site is finished and ready for use.
Welcome to WordPress.
And… welcome to RADARC.
This is the first ever post on this WordPress and im looking forward to how well this site can be used.
If anyone finds this post in the future, well you’ve found the internet equivalent of a time capsule… a blog post of no use to anyone buried at the bottom of a blogging site…
Anyway, a warm welcome to the RADARC WordPress and i hope you enjoy my stay!
73’s
James_jimjam 2E0JPM
