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.
A history of Dxpeditons
A fantastic turnout for the last club meeting of the year at Crampton Tower, the last meeting of the year will be at the Jolly Farmer, Manston for the Christmas meal. We welcomed two good friends of the club, two Peters, G0KOK chauffeured G3MLO who gave us an enlightening talk on the history of DXpeditions. […]
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 […]
Talk on DMR by Matt Payne M0LMK
The Hilderstone radio club is at the cutting edge of amateur radio, keeping up with the latest developments in digital technology. Matt Payne gave members a fascinating talk on DMR or digital mobile radio which promises clear voice signals with fellow amateurs across the world. Matt has set up a repeater station which enables amateur […]
The Cosmos and Amateur Radio by John Hislop G7OHO
The Cosmos is relevant to amateur radio in many instances. Radio signals are received on Earth from a variety of sources such as Moon Bounce, the FUNcube satellite, the Voyager spacecrafts, the International Space Station and the Sun. John gave a fascinating talk which made members appreciate the wider aspects of amateur radio.
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 […]
Ethan Beckett M6GQK meets Tim Peake KG5BVI
Six pupils from Wellesley House school gave a presentation at the UK Space Agency conference in Portsmouth about their amateur radio contact with Tim Peake on the International Space Station. Ethan Beckett M6GQK was able to present his QSL card to Tim in person. There were many school children from across the south […]
