Congratulations to club member Bob on passing the Foundation exam recently and obtaining his new callsign M6DFY. Welcome to the hobby, Bobby!
Exam success
Congratulations to club member ‘Lobster’ in Torquay, the first candidate to pass the Foundation exam at Riviera ARC recently, who is now M6HFD.
Congratulations also go to Tom (2E0MGZ) in Dawlish and Denis (2E0DBQ) in Paignton who have passed the Advanced exam. Tom now holds the Full callsign M0TGZ and Denis is M0ZYD.
GB8AFD Armed Forces Day
Riviera Amateur Radio Club are operating a special event station in support of UK Armed Forces Day which ‘raises public awareness of the contribution made to our country by those who serve and have served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces’.
The club will be providing a demonstration of amateur radio to the public with the special callsign GB8AFD. The event was the idea of Steph G4XKH, who is one of several club members that have served in the military.
The event takes place at Little Haldon, which is the site of a former World War 2 airfield, near Teignmouth in Devon on Saturday 29th June 2013 between 10.00 and 16.00. Visitors are welcome.
Club members will be making contact over the airwaves with other radio hams in the UK and abroad.
Amateur radio appeals to people who have an interest in how things work. Amateur radio is the original social network. To find out more about this technical hobby, see the Radio Society of Great Britain website.
A commemorative post card (called a QSL card) is available for those that wish to exchange cards to confirm a contact.
Operating bands will be 40m HF and 2m VHF. WAB square is SX97. QSL via bureau, eqsl or direct to Rivera ARC.
