This December has been fantastic weather wise and the activity up at our X NATO Beachy Site has been buzzing, with many new members joining in with the fun and operating from a noise free and highly elevated location. Both Richard M6EYO and Tom M6ONX got their new call signs through. Our trips down to …
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Mid December update
Roll up Roll up Stage two of our silent key sale is under-way on the Auctions page. Its another tender type sale and this one is open to non members too. Please read our terms and conditions of sale BEFORE placing any bids.
Early December update
Winter draws on and our clubs end of year meeting turned out to be a bumper turn out, being full of Christmas cheer and a good time was had by all. A BIG THANK YOU goes out to those that took the time to prepare food and those like myself that brought food along already …
Late November update
Here is Part One of a bumper update of a very busy month within the Southdown radio club community. Our weekly meetings up at our X NATO Beachy Head Shack average around 6 to 8 club members in attendance, however some meetings well exceed this number as did this week’s Wednesday Radio Extravaganza! If there …
Mid November update
Our silent key members only section is now over, however the remaining items will open to the public in another sale to follow shortly. Please check back regular for updates. Please see Auction Room Page for the nature of the sale and the rules on bidding and payment. Any questions on the above please use …
Early November update
Our Satruday’s session up at the Beachy site went very well and a good time was had by all. Satruday’s meeting was more HAM than RADIO, with a massive fry up of food, that took a while to cook up and eat. Chef of the day was Barry G8DXU and the food was well cooked. …
Late October update
Our Wednesday meetings down at the Cafe Continental and Beachy site were very well attended with the cafe owner kindly extending our table and proving more seats for his excellent and amazing low priced food. The Beachy site was packed once again and Barry G8DXU brought along and tested out some newly purchased test equipment, …
Another Mid October update
Our Saturday trip up to the beachy shack went very well and the weather was warm enough to wear a t-shirt for best part of the day. We focused on the HF bands and a few local VHF contacts were made. More photos from last weeks beachy experience. The first being of a rather impressive …
Mid October update
And the beat goes on with yet another busy weekend and Wednesday up on the hill. Henry 2E0IAK brought along one his of SEMI portable radios; see our BLOG for more details and we tucked into a LARGE meals ready to eat mince beef and onions, supplied by Henry, that Barry G8DXU with his cooking …
Beachy Head (Camp X) Report on recent activities.
Saturday the 11th of October started with an early arrival at BHRS and the intention of calling into the VMARS 80m AM net at 0830. The weather was not particularly helpful with a strong wind and driving rain slowing progress in deploying the inverted V dipole. The 2 metre ten element beam had also sustained a broken director …