Tour of the Margate Lifeboat Station with Paul Hodson G1DRX
Paul and mechanic Chris Andrews treated club members to an excellent tour of the Margate Lifeboat station. We split into two groups with mechanic Chris explaining about the controls inside the lifeboat. He explained how the coxswain keeps an overall eye on all the proceedings rather than drive the boat. He pointed out the important […]
Tim Peake amateur radio contact with Wellesley House
Wellesley House in Broadstairs has been selected as one of 10 schools in the UK to make a possible contact with Tim Peake when he is in orbit on the International Space Station next year. The Hilderstone club helped the science teacher to prepare the application to AMSAT UK. At the Monday morning Assembly on […]
Foundation licence examination successes
Patrick Bean and Steve Brett were successful in passing the foundation licence examination and now have call signs M6ZTE and M6TVB respectively. Thanks go to Clive G1WCR for the training and Nick Parker 2E0POS for invigilating the exam.
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 […]
Lighthouses and Lightships Weekend GB0NFL 2015
We set up as usual in Joss Bay car park overlooking the beach. The usual dipole antennas and a 100W HF SSB transceiver powered by a 12V - 110 Amp-hrs battery were used of which the Club owns two. A fully charged battery provides approximately six hours of operation. The silvery-fronted box atop the transceiver […]
Space School at the University of Kent
Space School, which has been running at the University of Kent since 2001, provides an intensive two day experience aimed at introducing 11 - 18 year olds to the many different fields of space activity, and giving them an awareness of the course and career profiles on which they could embark to become tomorrow's space […]
Club of the Year 2014 award
The shield for the 2014 Club of the Year award region 10 was presented to a good turn-out of appreciative club members by RSGB Region 10 Manager Mick Senior G4EFO and Kent Manager Keith Bird G4JED. Can we succeed 3 years running?!
Air Traffic Control
PJ Wellspring of Whitstable, ex RAF pilot, then RAF and civil Air Traffic Controller gave us a talk entitled ‘Radar & Radio in support of Air Traffic Control’ To illustrate the problems faced by the controller he showed us a map of Heathrow with the incoming and outgoing flights, then gradually zoomed out showing the […]
International Museums on the Air at the Spitfire Museum GB1MSM
On the Saturday we were ‘fishing’, looking for the other museums on the air. There were several frustating pile-ups but we managed to contact quite a few of the other Museum stations. The National Museum of Flight Scotland near Edinburgh GB2MOF boasted that they also had a Spitfire but Manston’s display is much better. GB4WLM […]
ARPOC
Amateur Radio Portable Operators Club Matt M0LMK’s talk at the Club meeting was about his latest project: 'Amateur Radio enthusiasts do it anywhere!' Matt M0MLK explained how his new initiative is to encourage members to operate in the great wide out-doors. Anywhere. On the beach, in a park wherever. If people ask what you are […]
