Jan
27
The Southport & District Amateur Radio Club is at Lytham RNLI Lifeboat Station running a special event station on Saturday, 27th January for SOS Radio Week. As ever, we like to experiment with new technology, so we’re trying a live image upload from the event. View this page in full to see the latest images.
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Jan
25
Members of the Southport & District Amateur Club attended Lytham Lifeboat Station shortly before Christmas to present a cheque to them for £360 – the amount raised by the club during SOS Radio Week.
Read the article on the local news web site, SouthportGB.com, for more details and images.
Nov
21
Lytham Lifeboat Station
Earlier this year the Southport and District Amateur Radio Club took part in SOS Radio Week by running a sponsored special event station at Lytham Lifeboat Station and raised over £360 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Due to a number of circumstances the club has been unable to present this money until now and a date has now been set for the presentation.
The St. Annes off-shore lifeboat, a fast Mersey Class carriage-launched craft, will be undertaking an exercise at around 18:00 on the 22nd December and members of the Southport & District Amateur Radio Club have been invited to make the presentation and take a tour of the lifeboat station and the lifeboat prior to it’s launch. This will be a good opportunity to take photographs of the boat in action in the dark.
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Nov
21
Celebrate Lancashire Day with the Southport & District Amateur Radio Club
The Southport & District Amateur Radio Club will, once again, be on the air to support Lancashire Day. Despite Lancashire Day being on the 27th November, the club will be celebrating a day earlier on the 26th as this is the best day to get a venue and all the participants together.
Nonetheless, the Southport Club will be celebrating in style with a special event station operating under the callsign GB5LB, a Lancashire Hot Pot lunch for all those attending at around 13:00 and a toast to the Queen, the Duke of Lancaster, read out over the air at 15:00.
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Oct
22
Yes, no sooner has the summer finished but Christmas is looming. Our Christmas meeting, as usual, takes place on the second Monday of the December (12th) instead of our usual third Monday.
Being the Christmas meeting it is traditional that we hold our annual “Keep the wife happy” evening, otherwise known as our junk sale. This is your opportunity to swap/sell your junk with/to other members of the club, or to buy that elusive piece of kit you’ve been after for ages.
We’re also asking that everyone who attends brings a wrapped Christmas present with them (to the value of £5) to be placed in the raffle. Everyone who brings a present will be given a free raffle ticket and the idea is that everyone should go home with a present to put under the Christmas tree.
Please remember that membership fees become due on the 1st January 2012 and that to vote at the Annual General meeting you must have paid your subscriptions before hand. As a result we will be accepting 2012 membership fees at the Christmas meeting.
Membership fees remain at £15 and £12 for concessions. Please remember that young folk aged 16+ on the 1st January 2012 pay full membership fees.
Oct
20
The paper presented by the Committee at the recent member’s meeting is now available for download and can be found in the ‘Membership Issues’ section on the club’s new forum.
Please note - this is a new forum and requires registration to gain access. We regret that we have been unable to transfer the contents of the old forums to the new ones and, as a result, existing forum members will need to re-register. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Sep
21
The club needs a new Course Administrator as the Don (M1BUL), who has done the job for nearly ten years would like to step down after our next course has run (October).
Can you help? Please read on…
Sep
21
The Southport & District Amateur Radio Club has announced that it is to run a Buddy Scheme for newly licensed Amateur Radio operators. When candidates pass their Foundation Course they will be allocated a buddy within the club who will help them through the first months in their new hobby.
To make the scheme work we need volunteers to act as Buddies.
Sep
20
The original forums have served their purpose – enabling members to discuss various Amateur Radio and club related topics. However, the system has not been without its issues and relatively few club members have registered to use it.
In an attempt to address these issues we have obtained a new forum system that is embedded within the web site – making it easier to use, manage and maintain.
Sep
20
M6XJP operating up to his knees in......water!
On the 25th June, Southport & District Amateur Radio Club member Chris, M6XJP, walked across Morecambe Bay. Why? Chris was the mobile component in a special event station operated by the Lifeboat Amateur Radio Society alongside the RNLI Cross Bay Walk.
The event was the annual Cross Bay Walk which raises thousands of pounds for the RNLI each year. Our special event station, GB5RNLI, was run from the start and finish at Holker Hall. Chris’ job was to take part in the walk and provide us with an Amateur Radio operator’s view of the walk’s progress in real time.
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