Southport & District
Amateur Radio Club

Making friends around the world

 
Welcome to the SADARC web site - please feel free to browse around

Special Event Stations

GB5BDS - Bishop David Sheppard Primary School Summer Fair

GB5BDS - Bishop David Sheppard
Primary School Summer Fair

To the Radio Amateur, any event is an event worth celebrating or commemorating; be it historical or current affairs, of international or local importance - a Radio Amateur somewhere will want to set up a Special Event Station.

A Special Event Station is, quite simply, a temporary Amateur Radio station set up to publicise an event. For example, groups of Radio Amateurs around the UK established special event stations throughout 2001 to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee and in 2000 there were thousands of special event stations running around the world to commemorate the new millenium. Other Amateur Radio operators set up Special Event Stations to help raise money for charities; each year hundreds of Radio Amateurs raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) through SOS Radio Week, and British Wireless for the Blind (BWFB) to name just a couple.

Special Event Stations are our way of introducing the Amateur Radio hobby to the general public. Located inside a building, or outside in a tent, Radio Amateurs set up antennas and connect to them the neccessary radio and computer equipment and then demonstrate their use, allowing visitors to the station to pass messages to the distant operator - sometimes on the other side of the world.

GB4TCF - Town and Country Festival

GB4TCF - Town and Country Festival

Here at the Southport & District Amateur Radio Club (SADARC) we run two Special Event Stations every year; GB5BDS - Bishop David Sheppard Primary School's Summer Fair (Southport) and the GB5MGA / GB5MGB - West Lancs MG Owner's Club Festival of Transport. 2008 will see us run a third special event station at the Ormskirk Park Praise Fun Day (GB5PPF).

If you have an event that you think would benefit from having a Special Event Station present please contact us and we will be happy to meet with you and discuss your requirements.

Insurance, health and safety and child protection

The club is fully insured for accidents relating to the running of Amateur Radio based activities. You can view a copy of our insurance certificate and insurance policy here.

We take the health and safety or our members, and visitors to our events, very seriously and have produced a Health and safety Policy and Risk Assessment which is available for downloading.

As a special interest club we do get involve in training children about radio communications and demonstrating the hobby of Amateur Radio to them. Their safety and security is utmost in our thoughts during the planning and execution of such events. We have members of the club who hold Enhanced Criminal Record Certificates (Enhanced Disclosures) and we adopt a strict policy over the publication of photographs on our web site containing children. We will soon have a Child Protection Policy in place which you will be able to download from this web site.


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