CHESHAM & DISTRICT AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
A Radio Society of Great Britain affiliated club

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About our club

Background

We are the Chesham & District Amateur Radio Society ( Known as C&DARS)

Club Callsigns are: G1MDG & G3MDG

We are Affiliated to the RSGB, and have a fully operational Radio "Shack" with radio equipment for HF & VHF SSB , CW & Packet / Data communications.

Here is some information about obtaining a UK amateur radio licence.

You MUST have a licence to operate amateur radio and there are three levels of licence:
Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced, but you need to take the exams for each in order.
The entry level is the Foundation licence which allows 10W power on a wide range of the HF (short wave) and VHF/UHF amateur frequency bands. The course takes around 10-12 hours and includes some practical work which needs to be formally assessed by a registered instructor. Courses are held at the Chesham and District Amateur Radio Society's premises at the White Hill Community Centre, White Hill, Chesham HP5 1AG. The cost of the exam is £25 (£20 to RSGB members) and there will also be a course fee of approximately £20 to cover the cost of room hire and the course book.

Courses are generally held on Sunday afternoons from 2:00 to 6:00pm.

For further information check out the the RSGB website www.rsgb.org for other instructors in your general area.

Meeting times

We meet every Wednesday evening,at 20:15 until 22:15, throughout the year, in the Mezzanine Room, located on the 1st Floor of the White Hill Centre.

Club meetings details are available on the Events - Club Calendar page.

Afterwards we meet in the licensed Bar on the Ground Floor of the Centre.

Contact details

Contact the Secretary Terry G0VFW via e-mail cdars.club@ntlworld.com
Or Telephone 01442 831491

We also have a cdars Yahoo Group web site.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdars/

If you would like to subscribe to this group:
1. visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdars/join
-OR-
2. send email to cdars-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Address

The Mezzanine Room, 1st floor
The White Hill Centre
White Hill
Chesham
BUCKS
HP5 1AG
Telephone 01494 775190

Latest events

28 July to 16 September

RSGB HF SSB FIELD DAY

28 August to 28 September

Kempton Radio and Electronics Show

18 August to 28 October

Amateur Radio Foundation Training Course

Latest articles

DX Sherlock 1.7 - V/UHF QSO real time maps If you are interested in checking propagation on 28 MHz, 50 MHz, 70 MHZ , 144 MHZ and 432 MHz, here is a web site which shows real time maps of Amateur radio stations. It can display by Band, or propagation mode i.e. Tropo, Sporadic-E, MS, Aurora and various others, and it automatically refreshes every 2-3 minutes
APRS introduction APRS introduction APRS is an abbreviation for Automatic Packet Reporting System and it is a graphical method of broadcasting positioning information in "real time" from packet radio-equipped stations. It was originally designed by Bob Bruninga WB4APR in the early 90's, but it has seen explosive growth in the last few years due to excellent software such as UI-View.
Terrain mapping program for UHF TV reception This Program draws you a plot of the height of the terrain between your base station and a distant station, as the crow flies
Marconi Calling This is an excellent Web Site dedicated to Marconi, which details his life History and Radio Experiments.
An Experimental HF Antenna For Use With Limited Space an article Written By John Carver G0IZC and sent to RSGB, which sadly was not published in RadCom.