Club life
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Three hours at Castle Hill, an end-fed slung low between two poles, and a callsign that had never been on the air before.
There is a particular silence after you call CQ with a callsign that has never been transmitted. You have said it, it has gone out, and for a second or two you have no idea whether a single person in the country is listening. On Saturday afternoon, from Castle Hill Country Park, G5SRS went on…
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We’re off. The first meeting happened.
On Sunday evening a group of us sat down at The Royal Oak and started a radio club. That sentence had been floating about for a while, mostly said on the air and then not acted on. It is not floating any more. Thank you to everyone who came. Some have held a licence for…