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

 

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 25th March 2025 and it will be an opportunity to hear Andy from SDRplay talking about the range of RSP software defined receivers. He will cover the range of hardware available and talk about the all important software, where all the magical stuff happens!

We are priviledged to have Andy come along to our club meeting so not to be missed - and you can join via Zoom in the usual way.

Also, its not too late to volunteer to support our special event station at Markshall arboretum, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Varsity, the largest airbourne operation ever conducted on a single day and in one location. 

We will be running two interactive visitor demonstration areas over the weekend of 22nd and 23rd March 2025, plus joining the Glider Pilot Regiment Society on Monday 24th March, which is for invited guests and dignitaries.

 

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.