Southgate is a great website for the latest Amateur Radio News. If it’s not on your list of sites you should pop over and bookmark it. http://www.southgatearc.org/index.htm
Category: amateur radio
Keeping your licence up to date
Your licence conditions mean that your licence needs to be re-validated at least every five years. You can do this sooner. You need to make sure your name, address and contact details are all up to date on Ofcom’s licence portal.
If you don’t do this your right to use your callsign lapses. Keep your licence up to date here; https://ofcom.force.com/LicensingComLogin
World Radio Day
GB0JAM
The club is out and about this morning at Gateshead Central Library.
The Raspberry Pi Jam is an electronics event for the community and young people. We are there transmitting and talking about amateur radio.
QSO for Railways on the Air 2019
The club had a day at Bowes Railway Museum. In 1826 it was at the height of technology as a steam powered rope wagonway. The Bowes Incline was at the top of a hill so in 2019 it’s a good place for radio too.
A clip from the Facebook livestream video of #gb0bow at the #bowesrailway in #gateshead. #anarc doing Railways on the Air 2019 on Saturday. Also doing a operator training as part of our learning programme at the club. #rsgb #railwaysontheair pic.twitter.com/YRuXnfEtjr
— Anarc (@AnarcClub) September 23, 2019
Licence Reminder
Ofcom requires that you keep your licence up to date. The licence conditions say that you need to do this ever 5 years. When was the last time you logged in to the Ofcom website?
Why not check today? https://ofcom.force.com/licensingcomlogin
Museums Day at Bowes Railway – Saturday 16th June 2018
We will be at Bowes Railway Museum on Saturday 16th June 2018 to participate in the Museums on the Air.
You can find out more by following this link; http://www.radio-amateur-events.org/IMW/
The Bowes Railway, built by George Stephenson in 1826, is the world’s only operational preserved standard gauge cable railway system, built to transport coal from pits in Durham to boats on the River Tyne.
Address: Springwell Rd, Gateshead NE9 7QJ
Phone: 07733330722
Free entrance.
You can learn more about the railway here; http://bowesrailway.uk/
World Amateur Radio Day 18th April 2018
Amateur radio has its own day – 18th April 2018.
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/amateur-radio-day/
Before the web, the Internet and cellular communications there was wireless. Amateur radio allowed everyone in to worldwide communication. Today wireless is still important with wireless home routers, wireless data transfer and cell phones.
Amateur radio day celebrates the pioneers of radio.