Program       Training      GB2CW      Contest Results      DARC Officers      SEG      Directions      Newsletters;

 

 

 

 

 

2006

 

 

2007

 

 

 

2008

 

Dragon Amateur Radio Club

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clwb Radio Amatur y Ddraig

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page updated – 28.4.08.

 

 

 

 

(Affiliated to the - Radio Society of Great Britain.)

 

The Llandudno Radio Rally is on 1&2 November 2008

 

Precise details of how the present club originally came into being are obscure. However, older members have recollections of amateur radio activities associated with Bangor University in the sixties, and early meetings in the Bangor RFC. These activities certainly formed the embryo from which the present club emerged after adolescence in CB radio. The name Dragon Amateur Radio Club was agreed upon at a meeting in October 1985, and many meetings were held at the Four Crosses, until 1997. 

 

Dragon ARC meetings are now held at the Ebenezer Church Hall, Lôn Foel Graig, Llanfairpwll. The Church Hall is an ideal Club House being recently modernised with fitted kitchen, central heating and ample parking.

 

The Dragon ARC has full affiliation to the Radio Society of Great Britain, the national representative body for radio amateurs within the UK. And holds its own callsign GW4TTA – used frequently for Club events and contests.

 

Club members come form all walks of life; many are or have been employed in the radio/electronics/electrical industries, and most hold a full Amateur Radio Licence. The Club has a Training Officer, and assistants, who run courses for the Fundamental, Intermediate and Full, Amateur Radio Licence examinations.  Many of the Club members are competent Morse operators (or ex-professionals) and they regularly enter Morse contests to represent the Club in that mode, and members are very willing to train those interested, in the use of the Morse code. (Club members operate GB2CW for the RSGB) Single sideband (SSB), radio teletype (RTTY) and many of the newer, computerised modes, are also used by members in contests, events and daily use. Technical experimentation is encouraged and also construction of all types of operational equipment and antennas.

 

As Club activities, Special Events and contests are undertaken at least half a dozen times each year, at which the Club’s own equipment is used. The main ones being International Marconi Day, when GB4MD runs from the old Marconi Trans-Atlantic Station (1914) at Waunfawr, & GB4HMD runs form the early Coast Wireless Station (1901) at Holyhead. And Club participation in International Lighthouses and Lightships Weekend ensures that GB2TD gets an airing from Trwyn Du lighthouse, at Penmon.  Special QSL (verification) cards are printed and exchanged with the stations we contact at these events, and also when GW4TTA is used.  This work is handled by the Club’s own QSL Manager.

 

 

The Club meets twice monthly, on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, commencing 7.30pm for 8.00pm. The meetings start off quite informally with members socialising generally. Followed by a more formal section where a talk/demonstration on radio-related matters is given, either by one of the Club members or a visiting “expert”  (see copy of the latest programme)  Visits are sometimes arranged to places of interest, Club members have been taken on a guided tour of local BBC/ITV Broadcast stations.  We have also visited 22 Squadron, at RAF Valley, and a number of other interesting venues. The evening finishes off informally, with tea/coffee and biscuits and more general chat. 

VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO ATTEND OUR CLUB MEETINGS.

 

For further information including Club Membership forms, please contact the Club Secretary:

 Martin Snow, GW3PRL, Rhwng y ddwydre, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, LL61 6TZ.

01248 430 848    email  <martinsnow1943 at hotmail dot com>