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 - Thursday 14th May 2026
********* STOP PRESS **********
OUR MEETING VENUE HAS NOW CHANGED TO:
STISTED VILLAGE HALL,
RECTORY ROAD,
STISTED,
CM77 8AL
MEETINGS WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON THE 2ND AND 4TH THURSDAY
CLUB NETS WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAYS
Our next meeting at Stisted Village Hall is the club Annual Rig Clinic, where there will be plenty of professional test equipment available and plenty of expert advice and experience on hand. So if you have a problem with your radio and want to find out what is wrong, or just want to make sure its working as it should, then bring it along and you will have all the resources you need.
If you cant make it in person, Zoom will be running for the first part of the meeting so that you can hear the club notices.
MORE STOP PRESS!
Mills On The Air is taking place on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May 2026 and Howard, G6LXK will be hosting it at his QTH in Gainsford End. Members and guests are welcome to drop in and join in the fun!
About BADARS
Club members and visitors normally meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 8pm in Stisted Village Hall, Rectory Road, Stisted CM77 8AL. 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 Thursdays at 8pm and, if there is a 5th Thursday 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 Village 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.