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Homepage for Mid Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society
Amateur Radio in Mid Warwickshire
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Special Offer for 2008...
Mid Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society is offering all local radio amateurs and short wave listeners (who are not currently members) FREE MEMBERSHIP until the next AGM in March 2009. Please contact the Secretary (see the 'Contacts and Links' page).
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Latest News:
We offer would-be radio amateurs all the necessary preparation for the examinations which qualify you to become a Radio Amateur. So you can enjoy the hobby to the full, and, with your UK licence, continue to enjoy amateur radio communications when travelling abroad.
Please contact  M0JDB for more info.
Link of the month: One of the benefits of being a Radio Amateur is that you can confidently make informed judgements about the competence of the so-called professionals whom you might call in to do work on your property! So have a look at - but strictly 'for amusement only': Wright's Aerials
It is worth browsing this site for some their other horror stories, and the commentary accompanying the pictures is quite entertaining. (With apologies if you do actually work as a receptionist, but amoebae don't browse web sites as far as is known. If this is a bit cryptic see here for an explanation.)
...and I wouldn't want you to miss this (but don't look if you are an Arts Graduate as I think the comment is a little unfair, after all you would not expect an aerial installer to be familiar with the dialectical method - or would you?)
I like this one especially.
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The Mid Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society (MWARS) is a club for radio amateurs - or indeed anyone interested in radio or radio related technology - to practise and learn more about this mode of communication.
The society normally meets on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month with a break during August. Activities include talks, demonstrations, visits and 'on-air' operating (see diary for forthcoming meetings and events and archive for summaries of past events).
Our normal venue is the St. John Ambulance headquarters, 61 Emscote Road,Warwick, CV34 5QR, but sometimes meetings are held elsewhere. We are always pleased to see new people at our meetings, but please do contact the Secretary for confirmation beforehand.
Further details of the society can be obtained from the secretary. If you would like to find out more about amateur radio try the web sites listed here.
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Brief summary of the Amateur Radio scene in 2008.
In the UK you don't need a licence to listen to amateur transmissions, but one is required to transmit and so contact other licensed amateurs.
Since 2006 the licence is free! (Providing you register on-line: not onerous....)
A very wide range of different frequencies is allocated for amateur use, from extremely high frequency where contact is limited virtually by line of sight, through 'short wave' bands where intercontinental contact is common, right down to frequencies which are so low that it is difficult to get more than a few milliwatts of power launched from the aerial. There are very many enjoyable technical challenges which can be met by both 'off the shelf' purchased equipment and home-built kit.
To become a licensed UK amateur a short (two weekends') period of study is all that is now required - and the need to take a Morse test has been dropped. (However Morse and other non-voice modes are not "dead"! If anything, because of the advantages of digital modes of communication, they have a wider following now than at any time in the past 20 years.)
We arrange places for novices on the appropriate course. And we can also provide Morse practice.....
Please see contact details and links .
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We have put some pictures on this site to give some flavour of amateur radio in the 21st century: picture gallery
To find out more, come along and see and talk to us by contacting us via this link
Raynet on Fridays and Sundays at 21:40 local time. Frequency 144.650 plus or minus.
Pages created by John Pollard, M0JDB. |
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It doesn't have to pretty! Out of sight, but highly functional, this loft antenna is made out of ordinary flex. It works well to contact the world on the 20 metre amateur waveband. |
| Picture credits: Rod (G0FBY) ; Roger (M0RJG) ; Fred Pauling ; Brian (G4DF) |
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Last Updated: 11/4/2008
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