A group of Radio Amateurs (Hams) in Bristol (IO81qk) promoting Amateur Radio through club meetings, special events, training and contesting
ARISS has once again organised a SSTV activity period from the ISS. Lasting 7 days, 12 images will be tansmitted on 145.800MHz using PD120 […]
Details on this period seem to be sparse and slightly contradictory but it is believed that ARISS RUSSIA have a short #SSTV activity period running from 12:00UTC on 05/05/2025 possibly through to 12/05/2025. In case this is true we have prepared our usual pass predictions for the SBARC Clubhouse […]
Saturday 12 April is the International Day of Human Space Flight. ARISS have created another series of 12 images in their SSTV activity periods entitled “Humans in Space”. Can you catch them all? […]
FRAM2 is a manned Low Earth Orbit mission that will insert into a Polar Orbit around the Earth. The manned mission will be in operation for 3 – 5 days in March 2025 from a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and will be transmitting SSTV on the 70cm band. ARISS have partnered with the FRAM2 mission to create FRAM2Ham including an engaging competition for students aged under 25. […]
SBARC are planning another free on-line Foundation course, read more and sign-up with friends […]
GB3WR was forced off air in June 2024 following a dispute with the site owners. This was a sad loss to the local Ham Radio community around the south-west and South Wales and robbed a lot of coverage. Behind the scenes the GB3WR Repeater Group has been negotiating with the site owner/operator to try to reach a resolution that would allow GB3WR to return to the site. This took a very long time but has now been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties clearing the way for the operational return of GB3WR. […]
In a Facebook announcement on the Novers Park Community and Social Group, Ian announced the reopening of the upper rooms following completion (or near completion) of the redecoration work. […]
ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) have organised another SSTV Experiment from the ISS over the Christmas/New Year break. It looks like a lot of the passes over IO81qk (the GX4WAW Club House) are in the early morning. […]
South Bristol ARC has added Bluesky to its Social Media presence. We invite all of our members to create a Bluesky profile and follow the Club there. […]
The claimed scores form all submitted logs have been published on the RSGB CC Website. We’ve undertaken an unofficial analysis in much the same way as election exit polls are used to predict the outcome. See how we think we got on! […]
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