Angel of the North Amateur Radio Club

Anarc is out and about today at the water mill in Blaydon operating as GB0PHM for Mills day on the air.

To end 2018 we had our Christmas Social on the 14th December. Our resident photographer Warren Bone (G7WMB) managed to catch most of the people avoiding being photographed.

Last month I popped a few live photos straight onto the site from the 2018 Rally. However, there were more. So here are some of the additional pictures I took. 

Warren Bone (G7MWB) photographed last weeks’ latest new Foundation Licence candidates who passed on 24th September 2018.

The club has always focused on teaching and bringing new people into amateur radio.  Congratulations to all of you!

All entrants to the ANARC “Fog on the Tyne” Radio Rally pick up a raffle ticket to win a call book. Our secretary, Nancy Bone (G7UUR), gets to present the raffle prize during the rally.

The 2018 Fog on the Tyne rally is getting ready to open. Plenty of traders, radio bargains and our bring and buy.

It’s coming. This Saturday 15th September is Rally Day! Full details are always on this site’s rally page. 

The rally takes over the church hall for a few hours. Usual stuff for the radio amateur and electronics enthusiast including the “junk sale” where we recycle amateur radio gear at bargain basement prices.

The map should help you get to the Whitehall Road Methodist Church Hall. Entrance via the doors on Coatsworth Road. We are just a few metres from the 53/54 bus stops from Gateshead. 

See you Saturday!

The ANARC website has been available using the http protocol for most of it’s life. However, this means that all the text and content is transmitted over the internet as plain text. From it’s location on a webserver all the way to your browser on your device all the text can be read by anyone.

In one sense this doesn’t really matter very much. We are just a radio club website. Nothing is really secret here!

Most larger websites use the https protocol. This is the secure version of http. When a connection is made the contents are encrypted during the journey from the website to your browser. Https is used by shopping sites and banks to secure the connection. It’s so important that search engines like Google are prioritising sites that are protected by https. Effectively your site moves down the the search engine ranks if you don’t use https.

To implement the https protocol on this website I use a certificate from SSL For Free. This is a project that allows all websites to get a security certificate at very low cost. In this case free. 

So as of today you can access anarc.net as https://anarc.net securely. (It’s not quite totally secure because some of the images get sent unecrypted). 

The certificate lasts for 90 days and I renew it to keep it going. 

Today we are out and about at the Bowes Railway Museum in Gateshead for Heritage Weekend. On the air on 2m and HF.

Members are taking the chance to get out in the field or, in this case, in the brake car.

More photos, videos and live stuff on our Twitter feed!