Special Event stations
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Museums on the Air 2016
Museums all over Europe put on special amateur radio stations to celebrate International Museums on the Air weekend including the Manston Spitfire Museum. The Hilderstone radio club set up GB1MSM and we were able to make radio contact with other museums in the UK, France, Germany and as far as Switzerland. […]
Mills on the Air 2016
To highlight the wonderful heritage of windmills around the country amateur radio enthusiasts set up special event radio stations on National Mills weekend. The Hilderstone radio club set up theirs at the beautiful White Mill in Sandwich using the special call sign GB2WM. We were in the tiny Miller’s cottage with the antenna strung from […]
Thinking Day on the Air 2016
Thirty six Brownies from three Thanet Girl Guiding groups descended on the Monkton Nature Reserve to celebrate their Thinking Day on the Air using Amateur Radio. In the morning it was the turn of the 3rd Margate and the 10th Margate Brownies and some Guides, and in the afternoon the 1st Birchington group visited the […]
SOS Radio Week 2016
The Hilderstone radio club enjoyed a tremendously successful operation of a special event radio station at Margate Lifeboat station using the call sign GB1MLS. Over the week we made nearly 500 contacts all over the United Kingdom and Europe, including 18 countries. The aim was to raise funds and awareness of the volunteer work of […]
Youth on the Air G15YOTA
Wednesday 9th December was the turn of Wellesley House school to host G15YOTA and the Hilderstone radio club did a brilliant job in promoting amateur radio to the youngsters. Hopefully they gained a better understanding of radio communications and an appreciation that amateur radio is a fun hobby. We had the Wellesley House pupils in […]
World Space Week 2015 GB2WSW
To celebrate World Space Week the Hilderstone radio week joined forces with the Monkton Stargazers to put on a special event station GB2WSW at the Monkton Nature Reserve. Andrew Plant G0MBL helped to set up the station using the new portable delta loop antenna. We were able to pick up stations in Scotland and the […]
Air Ambulance special event GB1KSS
The station was constructed next to the Manston Spitfire Museum in Matt M0LMK’s army tent with the sides open in the warm weather. As band conditions had been so variable over recent days a SOTABEAMS linked dipole covering 5 bands was erected as an inverted V on a lightweight 10m telescopic pole to allow rapid […]
