The 1st Ashington Scouts visited the club for Jamborees on the Air , J.O.T.A to gain their Communicator Badge . Thanks to Chris G4NAB ( our STEM officer ) who organised things and Chris G3SQU , David 2E0PIH, Robin M0JQQ , John M0JWZ and Stuart G6AKW the Scout leaders and Read more
For anyone wanting to explore the contesting part of the hobby which can be very addictive and good fun see the Rsgb link below . Gordon G8PNN and other Radio Amateurs up and down the country go up on the high spots and see how many contacts they can get Read more
Next Thursday 16th October Bev will be sharing with us her learning and set up/ demo of FT8 using her ICOM 705 . The talk will commence at 8:15 pm
Listening to the ISS .The recordings below were from the International Space Station an Amsat TeleBridge contact with ON4ISS as the ground station with a School at Windhoek, in Namibia. The Astronaut was Mike FInke KE5AIT. The school was linked via the Internet to ON4ISS operating the Radio.The frequency was Read more
🎉 What a Day at the Northumberland Fire & Rescue Open Day! We had an amazing time at the Northumberland Fire and Rescue Open Day at West Hartford, Cramlington, on September 6th! Our special event callsign GB9NFR was live on the air — and although radio conditions weren’t perfect, we Read more
We’re planning to run our next Intermediate Licence training course on a Tuesday evening (date to be confirmed). If you’ve been thinking about taking the next step in your amateur radio journey, this is a great opportunity to do it with the support of fellow members. At the moment, three Read more
GB7NE is now at its new home at Northumbria Amateur Radio Club house in Ellington on the same frequencies as before, thanks to Mick Baister it’s former keeper after it left Alcan power station. Also thanks to Gordon G8PNN for organising and collecting it. The repeater has gone through significant Read more
Me and Peter G7MEI + Marie 2E1BTH had anearly start for a trip to Bishop Auckland for BARAC rally to man the NARC table left Bedlington at 06:45 , we were pleased we made it after the snow yesterday and us not going last year due to snow . It Read more
I knew it would be after 13:00… But it was 14:01 when I caught another fool on a hill (Snowdon) with my h/h while setting up the fiddly bits of the beam. 14:09 was the first 2m SSB into Fife, followed shortly by Hertfordshire. No other signals so went vertical Read more
Our original HexBeam was unfortunately destroyed during Storm Arwen in 2021. So thanks to a very kind donation from the Richard Henry Holmes Benevolent fund; our new 6 Band HexBeam is now safely assembled and erected. Many thanks to all who helped in this fun event.