Diary Dates
Future Events - The Year Ahead . . .
Tuesday February 14th 2012
Charlie Ollis, a former merchant navy radio officer returns with part two of his memories of learning the ropes on various cargo ships and later as a radio operator at Portishead Radio GKA
Tuesday March 13th 2012
Ian Davies G3KZR will pesent a talk entitled What is DXing and Why Do It? Ian will discuss the scope of DXing from the illustrious DXCC Honour Roll to setting personal challenges with limited resources, illustrated by his progress during 50+ years on the air on most bands from 160m to 23 cms using from 1 watt to a big linear and from zepps to beams
Tuesday April 10th 2012
Steve Hartley G0FUW comes up the road from Bath to talk about buildathons, QRP construction and training - plus a lot more besides!
The History of Amateur Radio
It would be great to have a home-brewed paragraph or two here about the history of amateur radio. However, there is a fantastic resource here that explains it all in great detail.
It's an Anglo / French website and contains a wealth of information about the subject and a comprehensive history of the amateur service since the invention of radio itself.
Another brilliant account of what amateur radio is all about is here. It's a link (with permission) from Julian of G4ILO's Shack fame. Do check out his site!
Just to be fair, here's a link to another excellent summary courtesy of Wikipedia
