WELCOME TO THE BRAINTREE AND DISTRICT AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY

 

The club is grateful for the support it has received from Martin Lynch & Sons whose website is www.HamRadio.co.uk

 

     We are holding our 50th anniversary party on the 17th May!     

Please contact the secretary (secretary@badars.co.uk) or webmaster (webmaster@badars.co.uk) for more details.

 

Club members and visitors normally meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 8pm in St Peter's Church Hall, Braintree. Further information about our club, how to join and on getting to our meetings is on our About Us page and all are welcome to attend.

We also have a club net on 2m FM on V30/S15 (145.375MHz) on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 8pm and, if there is a 5th Tuesday in the month, via the local GB3BZ 70cm analogue repeater on RU68 (input 438.450MHz output 430.850MHz CTCSS 110.9). Again, all are welcome to join in.

We have a Facebook Page - search Badars or @CallMoXG  and we will appear as a 'Local Business'. 

Information on upcoming events can be found on our Programme page and on Facebook.  

Please note that we make Zoom available for members to use for our 'on air' nets (including via GB3BZ) as well as at the Church Hall. Zoom will be activated 10-15 minutes before the official start of the meetings and the login details will be as advised by an email sent out to members.

  

 !!! STOP PRESS !!!

 

2025 is a special year for the Braintree and District Amateur Radio Club - its the 50th Anniversay of the clubs inauguration on 17th May 1975. 

I will be updating the club calendar with some exciting new events that we have planned when dates and venues get confirmed.

In the meantime, our next meeting at the church hall will be on Tuesday 13th May 2025 when we will have our annual rig clinic, with Dave, G0DEC and Howard, G6LXK. There will be plenty of test equipment and advice to help you with your projects, purchases or dreams!
As usual we will have Zoom running alongside the meeting if you can’t make it to the hall and an email will be sent to members with joining details before the meeting.

 

The meeting at the Church Hall on Tuesday 27th May will be the club Annual General Meeting. In this special 50th anniversary year it will be even more important to reflect on what has worked well and less well, and to contribute to ensuring the club thrives over the next 50 years! 

The formal notice and nomination form for committee members can be viewed and downloaded here. We will be running a Zoom meeting alongside the AGM so please join in, even if you can’t physically make it to the meeting venue. 

If you prefer, you can send your nomination forms to Geoff by email to secretary@badars.co.uk or by post or telephone (see Barscom for address and telephone details).

 

NEWS HEADLINES!!!

 

You may have noticed that our normal website has changed and we have fewer pages. This is because we have had to switch platforms and had to rebuild a temporary site. We are working behind the scenes to build a new, refreshed site to be published later in the year.

 

 SO WHAT IS AMATEUR RADIO ???

 

The easiest way to answer that question is to invite you to watch a video made by the Radio Society of Great Britain, which can be found here.  If you want to know more, or prefer to read rather than watch, the Radio Society of Great Britain also have a 'Getting Started' section on their website which can be found here.