Jul 09
I found myself free for this year’s contest and thought, why not dust off the official club call GW4TTA and let it sing on the airwaves once again? I decided to do it properly — truly portable (hence GW4TTA/p), going back to basics with no internet cluster crutches, no comforting hum of mains power, and …
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Jun 27
Each year during the Antarctic Midwinter, the BBC World Service broadcast a special programme called the ‘Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast’. The programme is specially broadcast for the around 40 scientists and support staff of the British Antarctic Survey who are enduring the harsh polar midwinter. The first Midwinter Broadcast was in 1955, meaning that this years …
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Jun 17
A club presentation by Simon MW0NWM While amateur radio is, at its core, a hobby centred around communication via radio waves, there’s a whole world of helpful websites out there. On Monday the 2nd June 2025 Simon MW0NWM gave a talk at the Dragon Amateur Radio Club highlighting some of the best websites that he …
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May 29
On Saturday 10th May, members of Dragon Amateur Radio Club gathered at Melin Llynon / Llynon Mill on the island of Ynys Mon for the annual Mills On The Air weekend, which is held every May.Thanks to the owner of the mill, Richard Holt we were able to set up on the lawn in front …
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May 16
Like a lot of people John doesn’t have much time to spare but on the 80th anniversary of VE Day he took some time out to remember the ones that had fallen at a service at Parys mountain in Anglesey. More than 500 people braved the chill evening air to gather in a car park, …
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Apr 27
International Marconi Day is observed annually on the Saturday closest to April 25, which is the birth date of Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, inventor of the radio. On Saturday, April 26th, 2025 operating as GB2IMD the Dragon Amateur Radio Club celebrated international Marconi day which marks the anniversary of the first transatlantic message being sent from the historic …
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Apr 10
What do radio amateurs do with their old and unwanted equipment and components? They sell them! Very often the big ticket items, expensive radios etc, are traded at one of the many amateur radio shops, or we sell them online. However for those smaller items and components we take them to the annual Dragon Amateur …
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Mar 27
On the 17th of March 2025 Simon MW0NWM gave the Dragon Amateur Radio Club members a very interesting and informative talk answering that very question! It turns out that the RSGB (Radio Society of Great Britain) provides members with a range of benefits, including access to its very own magazine (Radcom), exclusive online resources, Award schemes …
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Mar 12
Every year the Dragon Amateur Radio Club holds a construction contest with the aim of encouraging members to build either radio equipment or ancillary items which will enhance their radio operations and then to exhibit the builds to encourage others to follow their example. Read about the contest at https://dragonamateurradioclub.co.uk/darc-construction-contest-2024-18th-nov-2024/ On February 3rd 2025 the Dragon …
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Mar 12
It’s March the 11th 2025 and it might look sunny outside, but it isn’t, it’s freezing —so cold that even penguins would be like, “Nah, I’m staying in.” But did that stop David Morgan (GW6MLI) and Martin Moyse (2W0NKS) because when the radio waves call, you answer, even if your fingers are so numb they …
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