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
Next Meeting - Tuesday 8th June 2025
Annual Antenna Clinic
The next club meeting is our Annual Antenna Clinic and as usual it will be held at the Stisted QTH of Geoff, G1GNQ.
There will be plenty of space, a spare tower and lots of helpers available for you to put your latest creation up for all to admire. You can then give it a good check out with Dave and Howard supplying test equipment and their expertise.
There will be a Zoom call running for the initial club announcements but it will be hard to participate in putting up the aerial!
Zoom and location details will be sent to members via email before the event.
About BADARS
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 and on getting to our meetings is on our club information page and all are welcome to attend. More information about how we run the club, including applying for membership, can be found on our membership information page.
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.
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.