Category: News

Winter Season at Beachy Head

Whilst the last few months may have been unusually mild the track to our Beachy Head site has become impassable to normal road vehicles. Fortunately the society has a number of 4*4 enthusiasts who have jumped at the opportunity to use their vehicles in mud and axel deep water. Despite the conditions we have normally opened …

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Contact from Crystal Palace

Last Wednesday’s meeting involved a successful communication between myself on Crystal Palace Hill in South London, Dave G0FDV from Heathfield, and members operating under G1KAR/P at BHRS including Barry G8DXU and Tony G4UPY. Having erected a dipole for 40m I constructed at home this previous week, we attempted contact at the arranged time of 1500 …

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Selection of G8DXU articles added!

Some articles from our members’ monthly magazine written by G8DXU on vintage radio are now available here on sars.club. Hover over “Articles” in the menu above, then “Vintage Radio” to read them!

Christmas Contesting up at Beachy Head

SARS fielded entries in the Christmas Cumulatives Contest this year up at our Beachy Head shack – a good turn out and a decent number of contacts on 2m. More info likely to come in the next Airtime, or on G8DXU’s blog!    

London to Brighton Land Rover Run, Sunday 4-10-2015

The London to Brighton Land Rover run is organised annually by the South London & Surrey Land Rover Club SLSLRC. This has now been run for the last seventeen years with entry open to all Land Rovers, with old and interesting models being especially welcome. Entering the London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) attracts a charge of £200 a day …

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Annual dinner

This year’s SARS annual dinner is to be held at the Chalk Farm Hotel in Willingdon on Wednesday 9th December at 19:00. On the menu will be: Main: Special Christmas dinner Dessert: Either Christmas Pudding with cream/ice cream or a selection of ice cream, followed by a coffee. This particular venue has been selected due …

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Airbourne week

August, so far, has been a very busy month, with some great weather, up to the point of our towns yearly Air show Airbourne 2015. (Hence the spitfire above in this months site banner) Today the skies opened up and our town had one its largest deluges for some time with flooding throughout. However yesterdays …

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BBQ Club meeting

Monday evening was a hat trick for our radio club, after a weekend of camping and contesting up at our radio shack on the hill. Perhaps not as warm as the weekends weather, although staying mostly dry our BBQ evening had great attendance from club members and their family. I would like to pass on …

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Summer is here and its BBQ time!

Another update and reminder to all club members that it’s our clubs annual BBQ tomorrow evening and the full details can be found on our websites forum. If you have not received the details and wish to find out more use the website Contact Form or phone a member of the clubs committee. Summer is …

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July 2015 Club Meeting

Here is another short update and news report on our clubs activities and forthcoming events. This month clubs meeting was a bring and tell, that went remarkable well. Our club rooms have lots of tables, so they are ideal for such an event and members can lay out what they have brought along before the …

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