Museums on the Air
15 June 2013 at the Spitfire Museum in Manston for the Museums on the Air event. Hilderstone Amateur Radio & Electronics Club operated from the ex RAF base at Manston (Map reference: TR 333665 Lat: 51.35012 Long: 1.34947). Many other enthusiasts from around the world took part on this International Museum’s on the air weekend.
RadCom Report June 2013
G0HRS Hilderstone radio amateur club took part in Crampton Tower Hobbies Weekend on 20th and 21st April. The club set up a radio station consisting of a Yaesu FT897d, Icom 703 and a comet 250B antenna system, demonstrating data modes and CW throughout the weekend. Peter G0KOK brought various types of Morse keys including his […]
The Callis Grange nursery and infant school
The Callis Grange nursery and infant school asked us back again to do the 'squishy circuits' with their year 2 classes. As you can see, the pupils and helpers had lots of fun!
Bromstone primary school
This was a visit to the year 4 of Bromstone primary school following a request from the teacher who had done work on the Victorian telegraph with her pupils. We did the LED activity and Morse code communication. In May 2013.
RadCom Report May 2013
Six members of the Hilderstone Radio Club enjoyed four very successful days at the GEEK show in Margate - John Hislop G7OHO, Patrick Kirkden M0ZPK, Ian Solly M0CAG, Denis Kirkden M6DES and Danny Day M6ZDD - not playing on the retro games but explaining the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino to visitors. […]
National Science Week 2013 at Charles Dickens school
National Science week has been celebrated by the club at Charles Dickens school, together with the Viking Radio Controlled Model Boats club. The pupils constructed crystal radios and squishy circuits.
Geek Show
Six members of the club took part in the four days of the Margate GEEK2013 show at the Winter Gardens. They were demonstrating the capabilities of the amazing Raspberry Pi computer, which only costs £25 and can do everything a normal computer can do. A lot of visitors to the show had bought one and […]
SOS Radio Week
The Hilderstone Radio Society G0HRS raised £365 for the RNLI as part of the SOS Radio week. Len West G0GNQ and John Hislop G7OHO set up a massive vertical aerial outside the Ramsgate Lifeboat Station on the freezing cold afternoon before the event - we had to go indoors every 15 minutes to thaw out! […]
GB3EK repeater
The repeater GB3EK is situated in the tank room on top of a block of flats located in Margate, the repeater was first installed in 1976 and was one of the first UHF 70 cm repeaters in the UK. The repeater is a custom modified Icom UR8050 combined transmitter and receiver whilst the antenna is […]
Coloured LED's and more
The year 2 pupils at Callis Grange infant and nursery school were given a difficult challenge by a group of Science Ambassadors. The National Curriculum expects pupils of that age to be able to build a circuit but this challenge was to build three circuits in order to make a set of traffic lights each […]
