Past Club Meetings
We are proud to boast one of the most varied and complete meeting programmes in the Country
| Date | Meeting Description |
|---|---|
| 07/01/05 | Inaugural Meeting |
| 21/05/05 | CW Quiz, Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 04/02/05 | FOC and Radio in Guildford since 1960, Mike Marlow, G3IAF |
| 18/02/05 | QRP, George Dodd, G0HIP |
| 04/03/05 | Morse Keys and K1EL K12 Keyer construction, Brian Grist, G3GIX |
| 18/03/05 | DXing; The Golden Days are Now!, Roger Western, G3SXW |
| 01/04/05 | Club Night, Discussion on the Constitution |
| 15/04/05 | Commemoration of the Titanic Sinking on 15th April 1912 and reunion of the members of the 2002 Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group |
| 06/05/05 | Club Night - Committee Meeting |
| 20/02/05 | Photo Recognition Quiz, Adrian Boyd, G4LRP |
| 03/06/05 | Club Night |
| 17/06/05 | The WS68/P Set. How effective was this radio at Arnhem? Walter Blanchard, G3JKV |
| 01/07/05 | Club Night - Discussion of possible antennas for the Club |
| 15/07/05 | Club Night |
| 05/08/05 | Club Night - On air with our new 40m dipole |
| 19/08/05 | Home Brew Morse Keys by Peter Moss, M3OSP |
| 02/09/05 | Antenna Modelling with EZNEC - Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 16/09/05 | Club Night - On air with a straight key! |
| 07/10/05 | Understanding Propogation, and how your computer can tell you what's going on. Brain Grist, G3GJX |
| 21/10/05 | Club Night - On air |
| 4/11/05 | Bob's EMC Clinic - Our speaker is on the RSGB's EMC Committee so bring along your interference problems! Bob Bagwell, G4HZV (President FOC) |
| 18/11/05 | Club Practical Night plus G6XN on-air with QRP |
| 02/12/05 | Vertical v. Horizontal - George Dodd, G0HIP makes on-air comparisons and asks "Can we improve our Club antenna?" |
| 16/12/05 | Club Christmas get-together plus G6XN on-air to work Santa Claus. OH stations may be unprepared for this! Plus Paul Whatton, G4CDV presents "Hancock and Beyond" an amateur Radio film quiz |
| 06/01/06 | Tales from an editor's desk - Rob Mannion, Editor of Practical Wireless and Radio Active (Cancelled) |
| 20/01/06 | Club Practical Night - G6XN on Top Band with a rusty barbed wire fence? Can it be done? Come along and find out. |
| 03/02/06 | Table-top sale of once loved treasures. Pre-priced items all for Club funds. Free handkerchiefs to cry in! Not a raffle - but you can haggle |
| 17/02/06 | Club Practical Night - "Bring 'n Show". Drag along any piece of ham radio gear that you have paid good money for in the last year and then tell us about it, warts and all! |
| 03/03/06 | Construction Contest - if it's amateur radio and you built it - surprise us. It can't be that bad! You might win a prize. |
| 17/03/06 | Club Practical Night |
| 07/04/06 | Accurate Frequency Measurement - Walter Blanchard, G0CKV. A welcome return of this popular speaker. Lots of stuff to make you stop and think! |
| 21/04/06 | Club Practical Night - "QLF?" "No, QBF OM " What does it all mean? Come along, join in the fun. Find out and try it out, can we say more? |
| 05/05//06 | How well do our radios perform? asks Peter Hart, G3SXJ, famous DX'er, Radcom Reviewer and Award Winner. Peter will present the talk he delivered at the 2005 DX Convention |
| 19/05/06 | Falkland-Lighthouses-on-the-Air. The story of Amateur Radio from southerly latitudes by Roger Eeles, G0SWC/VP8DBR |
| 02/06/07 | Club Practical Night - "Get Bolder with Solder", Peter and Brian show a few tricks of the trade everyone can use. |
| 16/07/06 | Annual General Meeting |
| 07/07/06 | Interfacing your rig to your computer. Basic advice and help to get the maximum benefit from today's technology. Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 04/08/07 | US Railroad Telegraphy - keys, sounders and galvos in action. Bring your eye-shades. Receive and send messages ... Yeehaa! Ken Tythercott |
| 18/08/07 | Rob Mannion, editor of Practical wireless takes a look at the future of amateur radio publishing and asks for feedback. |
| 01/09/06 | Logging Programs - a review and demo of some of the cool (and the uncool) software in the keyboard kingdom these days! Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 15/09/06 | Refurbishing old valve equipment - See how it is done. John Hardy, G3NKD |
| 06/10/06 | Club Night |
| 20/10/06 | The Voodoo Contest Group in Mali - Roger Western, G3SXW returns with a stunning video and audio presentation, including visits to nearby villages. Something of real interest to YLs and XYLs as well as OMs. "Not just rigs and antennas" says Roger" |
| 03/11/06 | "A light hearted view of Early Wireless", Stan Casperd, G3XON |
| 17/11/06 | Prof. Mike Underhill, G3LHZ presents "Small Loop antennas." an exiting look at the science on this subject. |
| 15/12/06 | Club Christmas Jolly! Mince Pies, sausage rolls etc, plus G6XN on-air! Visitors Welcome. |
| 05/01/07 | John Logie Baird and Early Television John Weller,G0GNA |
| 19/01/07 | Antenna Clinic, your problems tackled. Bob Bagwell, G4HZV |
| 02/02/07 | Slow Wave Structures and Yagis - David Jeffries, G6GPR |
| 16/02/07 | Electromagnetic environmental effects and pulses. Alan Casperd, G8ZDF |
| 02/03/07 | Software Defined Radio Explained,Olof Lundberg, G0CKV |
| 16/03/07 | Equipment Sale and GB95MGY update. |
| 06/04/07 | Construction Contest |
| 14/04/07 to 15/04/07 | GB95MGY Special Event Station - RMS Titanic 95th Commemoration in honour of Jack Philips, Chief Marconi Radio Operator. Held at Godalming College |
| 22/04/07 | Club Night, review of GB95MGY |
| 04/05/07 | Lap-top Radio Wizardry for Beginners, Derek Stammers, G3HEJ |
| 18/05/07 | Club Night, magnetic loop construction |
| 01/06/07 | Annual General Meeting |
| 15/06/07 | Construction Evening, Build the W4ZCB Beeper, Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 06/07/07 | 3Y0X, Peter 1 Island DXpedition 2006 video, Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 22/07/07 | Club Night, G6XN on air |
| 02/08/07 | Mobile working, with a difference, Olof Lundberg, G0CKV |
| 16/08/07 | Club Barbecue Burgers and Sausages, all you can eat for a fiver!, Andrew Vine, M0GJH with a lot of help from Janet |
| 07/09/07 | CW sending and logging practice using SD |
| 21/09/07 | Transponders, here, there and everywhere, Walter Blanchard,G3JKV |
| 05/10/07 | Everything you've wanted to know about 5Mhz |
| 19/10/07 | A light hearted look at early electrics, Stan Casperd, G3XON |
| 02/11/07 | Club Night |
| 16/11/07 | Winter CW Quiz, Andrew Vine, M0GJH |
| 07/12/07 | Club Christmas Feast |
| 21/12/07 | G6XN steps up the contest ladder in 2008, Mike Marlow, G3IAF |
| 04/01/08 | Club Night |
| 18/01/08 | David Jefferies, G6GPR - Experiments with Antennas |
| 01/02/08 | Derek Stanners, G3HEJ - Empire Broadcasting and managing the mighty SWB8 |
| 15/02/08 | Olof Lundberg, G0CKV - Computer Interfacing and Ham Radio |
| 23/02/08 | WVARG Annual Lunch |
| 07/03/08 | Roger Western, G3SXW - Micro DX |
| 21/03/08 | Club "Build It" Evening |
| 04/04/08 | Club Construction Contest |
| 18/04/08 | Guildford Repeater Group - The World of Repeaters |
| 02/05/08 | Inter-Clubs Quiz - The Hernia Cup Challenge |
| 16/05/08 | John Warburton, G4IRN- Exploits of a Solo Dx-peditioner |
| 07/06/08 | HF National Field Day Weekend |
| 06/06/08 | Used Equipment Sale |
| 20/06/08 | Summer Barbecue |
| 04/07/08 | WVARG Annual General Meeting |
| 18/07/08 | DXpedition to Puttenham Heath |
| 01/08/08 | Equipment Recycling Sale |
| 15/08/08 | On Air on the River Bank |
| 20/08/08 | Visit to Amberley Working Museum (Wednesday) |
| 05/09/08 | Bob Bagwell, G4HZV - An Introduction to Smith Charts |
| 19/09/08 | John Warburton, G4IRN - Radio Does Travel |
| 03/10/08 | Roger Western, G3SXW - The 3X5A Experience |
| 17/10/08 | Stan Casperd, G3XON - A unique presentation of 60 working vintage and novelty radios. |
| 07/11/08 | Adrian Boyd, G4LRP - Radio Photo Quiz |
| 21/11/08 | Club Construction Evening |
| 05/12/08 | WVARG Christmas Jolly |
| 19/12/08 | Club Night |
| 02/01/09 | Club Night |
| 16/01/09 | Nikola Tessla - John Narborough |
| 13/03/09 | Cancelled due to Weather |
| 20/02/09 | Photonic band structures and construction of wide band antennas - David Jefferies, G6GPR |
| 01/03/09 | Club Lunch |
| 06/03/09 | Guildford Historical Quiz - Terry Kearns, G4GIX |
| 20/03/09 | The GB7HQ Experience - John Warburton, G4IRN |
| 03/04/09 | Atlantic to Holland & the great AR88 fired up - Richard Brett-Knowles, G3AAT |
| 17/04/09 | Used Equipment Sale |
| 01/05/09 | WVARG Annual General Meeting |
| 15/05/09 | Club Construction Contest |
| 27/05/09 | The Hernia Cup (to be held at Farnborough & DRS) |
| 05/06/09 | Club Night |
| 06/06/09 | National Field Day |
| 19/06/09 | Club DX Evening |
| 03/07/09 | Summer Barbecue |
| 17/07/09 | Professor Mike Underhill, G3LHZ - Ground Properties and Loop Antennas |
| 07/08/09 | Club Night - On Air on the River Bank |
| 21/08/09 | Club Night - On Air on the River Bank |
| 04/09/09 | Members' Equipment Sale |
| 04/09/09 | Club Construction Evening - Soldering Plugs |
| 02/10/09 | Roger Western, G3SXW - Happenings Along the DX Way |
| 16/10/09 | Dr Michael Willis, G0MJW/AD6XY - Communications : What Next ! |
| 06/11/09 | Club Night |
| 20/11/09 | Patrick Arnold - The SOE and Local Connections |
| 04/12/09 | Club Xmas Jolly |
| 18/12/09 | Xmas Greetings, On Air from WVARG Transmitters |
| 01/01/10 | New Year's Day - No meeting |
| 15/01/10 | Club Night - The year ahead and "On Air" possibilities |
| 05/02/10 | Olof Lundberg, G0CKV - A personal history of maritime radio |
| 19/02/10 | John Warburton, G4IRN - Contest DXpeditioning |
| 05/03/10 | Walter Blanchard, G3JKV - Are big antennas and linears obsolete? |
| 19/03/10 | National Field Day planning |
| 02/04/10 | Good Friday - No meeting |
| 16/04/10 | Olof Lundberg, G0CKV - Ferites, Chokes and Baluns |
| 07/05/10 | John Weller, G0GNA - A brief record of Sound Recording |
| 21/05/10 | The Hernia Cup - Inter Club Competition |
| 04/06/10 | WVARG Annual General Meeting |
| 18/06/10 | Club DX Evening Out on Puttenham Heath |
| 22/06/10 | WVARG DX Day Out at The Pub with no Name, Priors Dean, Hampshire, GU32 1DA |
| 02/07/10 | Summer Barbecue |