£250 Award from Waters and Stanton
The club treasurer Paul McVay M5ADD presented the £250 voucher from Waters and Stanton to the club president Charles Taylor M0RST. The award was for winning the second place National Club of the Year 2015. A brilliant achievement!
ARES clubs week one
ARES = Amateur Radio, Electronics and Space. Two clubs have been set up - one at Wellesley House school and one at River Primary school in Dover. The Electronics will be using the Arduino starter kit from Utronix (https://www.utronix.co.uk/) with extra electronics components. In the first week they investigated the amount of current that flows […]
Foundation exam success
Congratulations to Peter Petersen who passed his Foundation exam. Peter was saying afterwards how his mind went blank and he got confused with the symbols for a resistor and a fuse. Bring back the zigzag symbol I say! Nevertheless he only got two wrong so he will be moving directly on to the Intermediate course. […]
Ian Solly's digital radios
At Thursday’s meeting Ian Solly M0CAG demonstrated two digital radios. His Windows 10 PC was connected to the internet using a hotspot on his phone. On the left hand side of the photo you can see his DV Access Point Dongle, DVAP, plugged into an Icom 51E Dual Band D-Star handheld. The DV Access Point […]
Relativity and Amateur Radio
John Hislop gave a fascinating talk about how Einstein's relativity has relevance to hams. We talk about the ether but does it exist? Do radio waves need a medium to travel through? The Michelson and Morley experiment proved the non-existence of the ether but Einstein realised that the result led to the fact that radio […]
Intermediate successes
Good news from the Hilderstone radio club. After months of study and practical assessments four members, Patrick Bean, Philip Challans, Morgan Flynn and Steve Brett, sat the examination for the Intermediate level of the Amateur Radio Licence. Clive Widdus had guided them through the theory and they had already completed rigorous practical assessments. […]
National Women in Engineering day
‘Girls can’t what?’ stickers were much in evidence at Wellesley House school’s celebration of National Women in Engineering Day organised by STEM coordinator Kerry Sabin-Dawson. 30 girls from Wellesley and 30 girls from local primary and secondary schools came away from the event with the thought that they too could become an engineer. Chemical engineers […]
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. […]
Wonderful News!
The Hilderstone radio club has won the top club of the year in Sussex and Kent for the third year running. The regional manager of the Radio Society of Great Britain Mick Senior presented the Hilderstone radio club with the shield. Mick said that the club’s application was outstanding for its outreach work, its organising […]
Three Youngsters give talks
The theme of Thursday’s meeting was how there are wonderful opportunities for young people to be had in amateur radio. The evening started with 12 year olds Ethan Beckett and Benny Yu giving a presentation on their once in a lifetime event speaking to astronaut Tim Peake on the International Space Station. They explained how […]
