SBARC – South Bristol Amateur Radio Club

ARISS-Russia #ISS #SSTV Activity Period

05/05/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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 […]

The International Day of Human Spaceflight (#ARISS #ISS #SSTV)

09/04/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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? […]

FRAM2Ham #SSTV #ISS Simulation

14/02/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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. […]

2025 On-Line UK Amateur Radio Foundation Course

10/02/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

SBARC are planning another free on-line Foundation course, read more and sign-up with friends […]

GB3WR is Coming Back

06/02/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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. […]

We’re Back!

03/02/2025 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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. […]

SSTV Experiment Upcoming

19/12/2024 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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 is on Bluesky

09/12/2024 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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. […]

VHF Field Day 2024 Predictions

21/07/2024 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

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! […]

On-Line UK Amateur Radio Foundation Course

21/04/2024 Andy (G7KNA) Comments Off

Following confirmation of the Licence changes and the timetable for examination of the changed conditions, we believe we can fit in a single on-line Foundation Course before 1 September 2024 when the new Licence Conditions become examinable, so we’re going to re-launch our Training offer with an on-line Foundation Course. […]