Activities
GB1MSM at Manston
Thank you to everyone who turned up to operate GB1MSM at Manston. We had a great turnout so thank you to everyone who turned up, VHF was very successful and the DMR was also good. The HF conditions were against us and thank you to everyone that helped set up the station. Congratulations to Adam […]
SOS Radio Week – Margate Lifeboat Station
Hilderstone Radio Society organized a Special Event Station at Margate LifeboatStation’s open day on 7th May as part of SOS Radio week, spreading the word of theRNLI’s work worldwide.We suspended our antenna between the top of the lifeboat station’s 10m highflagpole and some railings on the cliff behind the lifeboat station. It worked prettywell once […]
GB1MSM on Armed Forces Day
The Hilderstone Radio Society had a great day out at The Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum at Manston today in support of their Armed Forces Day event. The event was well attended by club members and visitors alike. We operated a HF station on CW and a 2m station on SSB for most of the […]
6m Trophy Contest
On Saturday a group of club members along with friend to the club, Ian Hope 2E0IJH arrived at Manston Spitfire Museum to set up a station for an entry in the 6m contest starting at 1400 UTC. We had a very old 6ele beam which had been rescued from a hedge during the recovery of […]
JOTA 2018
The Hilderstone Radio Society provided a special event station for the 1st St Johns Margate Scouts. The club activated a HF station, a DMR station and provided a Morse activity and short range communications using simplex radios. Around 60 scouts in total attended the event and a great day was had by all.
VHF NFD 2017 – G3WM/P (But no G0HRS/P)
A great report from Ian Lowe, G0PDZ... As usual in recent years I joined my good friend Ian Hope, 2E0IJH in contesting during VHF NFD. One of the number of contests we enter as members of Kent combined clubs. However, this year unlike past years we did not compete from Capel-Le- Ferne, for various reasons […]
ARES clubs week four
We had our first taste of the amazing Arduino this week. Firstly we used the Arduino to power an LED to make sure we had it connected correctly. Then we connected it to pin 13 and the LED blinked! Some of us added more LEDs and others changed the delay in the coding to change […]
To the Moon and back!
Not satisfied with making amateur radio contacts in the normal way Peter Weatherall G3MLO decided to take his hobby one step further - to use the Moon to reflect his signals back to Earth! At Thursday’s club meeting Peter explained how he had to make special amplifiers and a huge array of antennas for the […]
ARES clubs week three
In week 3 we saw how a capacitor can store charge. Ethan is showing how a 10 Farad capacitor can light an LED, having been charged from a battery. 10 Farad is a large capacitor but in the oscillator circuit we used a 2.2 micro Farad capacitor, over a million times smaller! To make an […]
ARES club week two
In the second week pupils investigated the effect of changing the resistance in the circuit by changing the resistor or adding a variable resistor. Also we looked at the transistor and saw that it did not switch on unless enough voltage was applied […]
