Club news, broadcast nostalgia & radio chat
From spring table-top sales to summer field days, the 2026 rally season is a patchwork of village halls, rugby clubs and damp picnic tables. Here is how to enjoy it, host it and come home with something better than another box of mystery coax.
Planning quirks, neighbourly nerves and conservation-area rules are turning stealth aerials into a proper club skill. Here is how UK workshops are helping members stay on air without turning the garden into a battleground.
From the magic smoke to 'I'm only listening', British radio clubs have a language all of their own. This affectionate decoder explains what the phrases really mean — and why they are part of the social glue that keeps club nights going.
Village halls across the UK are filling up as radio clubs enjoy a revival, but packed rooms bring waiting lists, volunteer strain and wobbly tables. A practical look at how organisers are coping — and what secretaries can do before the chairs run out.
WhatsApp has eaten club conversation and left nothing behind. An argument for treating the monthly newsletter as a proper production — with a deadline, a running order, an audio edition and an archive that outlives the group chat.
Every autumn, a few hundred UK hobbyists point their cars at the coast, string wire between fence posts and wait for darkness. We look at the practical realities of seaside listening — corroded connectors, seawater ground planes and the small club events that make a winter DX season worth the drive.
As more local services drift away from medium wave, radio clubs are turning listening nights into proper archiving sessions. We look at how members are capturing jingles, travel bulletins and late-night dedications, and how you can help without filling your spare room with dusty cassettes.
A damp Friday in November 2026, a village hall, a tea urn and a table full of soldering irons. We follow a UK radio club’s budget receiver challenge, from first joints to SDR comparisons, and ask why build nights are bringing younger members through the door.