The NWARG foundation online sessions started today with John Pritchard (MW0JWP) holding online sessions for both foundation and Intermediate license candidates. John covered a variety of topics ranging from License conditions to some technical matters such as calculating resistance. Martin Moyse (2W0NKS) also covered Feeders and Antennas. The sessions are scheduled for weekly delivery in…
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Thank you
The North Wales Amateur Radio Group would like to thank all of our wonderful NHS heroes and of course all of the key workers during these difficult times. Stay at home, stay safe, and help save lives.
GB1KEY Special Event Station
GB1KEY is a joint Special Event Station between the North Wales Amateur Radio Group and Eryri-DX. Both clubs are located in North Wales, United Kingdom and share the same club HQ, The Northwood Hotel, Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy, LL284RS From the 1st of May 2020 through to the 28th of May 2020 we are running a joint Special…
Corvid 19 virus
Due to the current situation with Corvid 19 all club nights, the AGM and Exams are suspended until further notice. We feel this is the sensible thing to do. We will monitor the situation and notify everyone when normality resumes!
NWARG AGM
The North Wales Amateur Radio Group AGM is on April 2nd, 7pm at The Northwood Hotel, Rhos on Sea. Members, please make every effort to attend.
Baofeng GT5-TP Donation
Our good friend Phil Mclaren 2W0PJM has very kindly donated a Baofeng GT5-TP to Peter GW4IDV. Peter has been looking for an easy to use handy to use when he visits his family in Portsmouth and when Phil heard about this he donated his Baofeng GT5-TP to Peter.Our Chairman, Martin Moyse 2W0NKS delivered the radio earlier this…
Radio and Friendship at NWARG
The North Wales Amateur Radio Group has since its conception always had an ethos of being a friendly group that share an interest in amateur radio, hence we proudly display our unique RF logo, “Radio and Friendship”. We believe in supporting our members in any way that we can and this has been the case…
Mini Field Trip
Pat (2W0HUU) and I (2W0NKS) ventured up Gwynessgor this morning for a mini field day! The intention was for Pat Harper to take his mast and test it out but it was far too windy for that so 6m poles it was. I was working ft8 on 40m band and Pat voice on 20m band.Pat managed several…
NWARG Christmas Party 2019
Even though the North Wales Amateur Radio Group is only a few weeks old we all enjoyed a superb Christmas bash in our HQ, the Northwood Hotel in Rhos on Sea thanks to our host and member David Morgan and his lovely wife Sandy. As you can see, the spread that David and Sandy put…
NWARG net on GB3MP
On Sunday the 15th of December 2019 NWARG held its second net night on one of our local repeaters GB3MP using the club callsign MC0JBQ for its second public appearance with John MW0JWP in the chair as net control. Members on the net were MW6PQQ, 2W0NKS, MW6ADF, MW6TMQ and 2W0HUU. The net was another great…