Callington Amateur Radio Society

FORTHCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS

20th April Liskeard Community Fair

Come and see us at the Liskeard Community Fair 10am - 1pm Saturday 20th April.

We will be running two Amateur Radio Stations communicating with the world via Short Wave and Satellite.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Amateur Radio and more...

ASTRONAUT TIM PEAKE is a Radio Ham - watch a video of him talking to young people via Amateur Radio from the International Space Station.

CODEBREAKERS! Take our Morse Challenge.

DO YOU KNOW? Who was Marconi and what was he doing in Cornwall?

Come and see us - have a chat - have a go.

Quimperle Room, Liskeard Public Hall 3-5 West Street, Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 6BW.

+ Find out more about the Community Fair

+ CARS Members - we need your help with setup on Friday 19th pm and with manning the Special Event Station on Sat 20th - please email the Secretary and let him know when you will be available - Every Little Helps! secretary@callingtonradiosociety.org.uk

27th April Callington Community Day

Callington Amateur Radio Society

Come and see us at the Callington Community Day 10am - 2pm Saturday 27th April.

We hope to be running two Amateur Radio Stations communicating with the world via Short Wave and Satellite.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Amateur Radio and more...

ASTRONAUT TIM PEAKE is a Radio Ham - watch a video of him talking to young people via Amateur Radio from the International Space Station.

CODEBREAKERS! Take our Morse Challenge.

DO YOU KNOW? Who was Marconi and what was he doing in Cornwall?

Come and see us - have a chat - have a go.

Callington Town Hall PL17 7BE.

+ Find out more about the Community Day

1st May Meeting

Meeting details TBC.

ALL OUR MEETINGS ARE OPEN AND VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

Callington Amateur Radio Society (CARS):
Meets on the first Wednesday of each month 7 for 7:30PM in the Council Chamber of Callington Town Hall PL17 7BE.

CARS RADIO RALLY Sunday 17th March 2024

Many thanks to all who attended and especially to those who helped with the running of the Rally
and the Club Bring and Buy stand.

Special thanks go to Alastair for pulling all of this together – I suspect he is currently resting in a darkened room!!
To those of you who attended – I hope that you enjoyed your day.

To those of you who couldn’t make it – you missed a good Rally.

The bacon butties, though slightly delayed, were certainly worth waiting for😊

BREAKING NEWS 21st Feb 2024

OFCOM: "all amateur radio licences are effectively varied as of today’s date"

OFCOM.ORG.UK

Amateur radio: more freedom to innovate

Amateur radio enthusiasts will enjoy greater operating freedoms under licensing changes announced

WELCOME

If you are new to Amateur Radio, much of what you read on this site may seem like gobbledygook (and some possibly is) but don't worry, if you are interested in learning more about our great hobby you will always be made very welcome.

The club net on MONDAY evenings at 2000hrs local has now moved to the 2M repeater GB3JL on 145.78750 with a shift of -600Khz with an 77Hz access tone. This has been done in order to provide better coverage of our local area, so far all our members who wish to have been able to join the net, why don’t you join us ? Non-members very welcome, pop on and say hello!

Nigel, M7NGL keeps our FaceBook page updated with news and information about Callington Amateur Radio Society and other local goings on so please take a look by clicking the FB Icon below.

If you would like more information then please contact our Secretary, Peter G8BCG

Do please check out our Members for sale ads - some great bargains to be had there ;-)

CONGRATULATIONS SHIRLEY M0WXG

Shirley, M0WXG, recently graduated from the CWops CW Academy at the intermediate level!

She is now moving on to the next Advanced level, so best of luck with that too!

Read her story here:

It started with a dit - I never thought it would come to this!

See https://cwops.org/cw-academy/cw-academy-student-resources/

It's all free, so why not give it a try? Here's a little test:

-.-. --- -. --. .-. .- - ..- .-.. .- - .. --- -. ... / ... .... .. .-. .-.. . -.-- / .- -. -.. / -- .- -.-- / - .... . / -- --- .-. ... . / -... . / .-- .. - .... / -.-- --- ..- / ---.. ---.. / .- -. -.. / --... ...-- / --. .---- -..- .. -.-. :-)

Shirley is now also a member of the SKCC - take a look at this presentation by Ron Bower, AC2C about the Straight Key Century Club

*********Further Congratulations to Shirley**********

Shirley has now graduated at the Advanced level and following sponsorship has been admitted as a member to CWOPS.

Better still she has been invited to be an Academy Instructor which she has accepted. If anyone would like further information about CWOPS I'm sure Shirley would love to give you the full rundown.

Here she is at her operating station

Callington Amateur Radio Society (CARS):
Meetings on the first Wednesday of each month 7 for 7:30PM in the Council Chamber of Callington Town Hall PL17 7BE.
CARS is an affiliated member of the Radio Society of Great Britain

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