Weymouth
and Portland - at the centre of Englands 'Jurassic Coast'
!
READ
CATSWHISKER
EVENTS
DIARY
(News updated 01/10/08)
International Museums
Weekend 2008
NEW
WEB SITE FOR SDRS
www.sdrs.zoomshare.com
WITH LOTS OF PICTURES!
The above new (extra) SDRS web site enables pictures of SDRS events
to be published quickly and also has a Blog facility.
NEW stuff on this page every update - please
scroll down!
CONTACTS:
If you are trying to contact the Society please make
sure that you have the latest information by checking out the
SDRS Information page as some
e-mail address's and telephone numbers have changed
recently.
Any member can have a SDRS e-mail address
(callsign@g3sds.org.uk) The e-mail can
be forwarded automatically to any other e-mail address. If your personal
e-mail address is rather long or confusing the SDRS one is easy to use over
the air and also promotes the society. Please note
that the webmaster relies on those who use this facility to keep him up to
date. If you change your e-mail address or callsign you must let him
know!
INTERNATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTSHIP
WEEKEND
GB1HPG Portland Bill - March
2007
Committee for
2006/7/8
LOCAL INTERNET GATEWAYS
National Mills Weekend 2004 at Sutton
Poyntz - pictures now posted!
Click here to read a report of the
2003 event by Mark, M5MKW
Click here to see pictures of the
2003 event
INTERNATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE
AND LIGHTSHIP WEEKEND
AUGUST 16/17 2008 GX3SDS
WEYMOUTH STONE PIER LIGHT - UK0031 (ENG-162) - 50°37'N 2°26'W
- At the entrance to Weymouth Harbour.
(Our Radio Shack is located in the
Nothe Fort at
the SW end of the Pier)
QRA IO80SO WAB SY67
NEW WEB SITE FOR SDRS
www.sdrs.zoomshare.com
WITH LOTS OF PICTURES OF THIS EVENT!
See the official UK web site for more information on this event
http://illw.net/
(There is also a US Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society
http://arlhs.com)
2005 
Portland
Breakwater Lighthouse - ENG256
SDRS Special Event Callsign GB0PBL
Held at Weymouth Nothe Fort.
THIS EVENT WAS
CANCELLED!
20/21 AUGUST 2005 The extensive renovation
work taking place at the Nothe Fort meant that the SDRS would not have had
access to the upper areas that we normally use to set up our station and
therefore the Station Manager Mark, M5MKW reluctantly cancelled our participation
in the event this year.
(See the Events Diary
for more information)
See also -
International Lighthouse Weekend -
GB0PBL and
GB2WNF
Weymouth Vintage
Wireless See also
2006 Update and more pictures
here
www.sdrs.zoomshare.com
Original Marconi call-sign 2YT
re-issued
GB6OD - Commemorating the 60th
Anniversary of D-Day 6 June 1944
National Mills Weekend 2004
GX3SDS/P IMD 2004 -
Picture Gallery
International
Museums Weekend
International
Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2004
A very odd device - can you help?
Click here!
UK Malawi
DX-Pedition 2004
Sound
Bites of 7Q7MM in action
Index of Catswhisker Contents
since June 2001
Special Feature - Neville
M5NEV
Longleat 2003
RIP!
International Marconi Day 2003 - Saturday
26 April
Pictures of IMD 2003
from Neville, M5NEV (PDF File)
'IMD 2002' - report and
pictures
December 12 1901 - Marconi
bridges the Atlantic
International Lighthouse Weekend
- GB0PBL
Read the latest SDRS
Newsletter '40
Years of SDRS' - Catswhisker Special
Index of Catswhisker Contents
since June 2001
SDRS has a Special Contest Callsign
- M2Z
News about GB3EX
Check or update callsign details
on QRZ.com
Lots more links lower down this page
Full list of site
contents
EXCLUSIVE TO THE
SDRS!
THE SUITCASE SET
The late Ted Halls fascinating story of radio operation
behind enemy lines during WW2 with the SOE.
Complete story in one A4 volume
now available!
'The Suitcase Set - Part
1' 'Suitcase
Set - Part 2'
'Suitcase Set - Part
3'
'Suitcase Set - Part
4' 'Suitcase
Set - Part 5'
'Suitcase Set - Part
6' 'Suitcase
Set - Part 7'
To read Ted's story you will need to have 'Adobe Acrobat
Reader' installed on your PC. Click the Adobe Icon above to download and
install the free program. For reading
'off line' simply click on the floppy disk icon at the top left of the Acrobat
Reader screen once the document has fully downloaded or right click with
your mouse on the link and chose the option 'save target as'. The file can
then be saved to a convenient folder of your choice.
Ted Hall, G3ETA - Silent
Key
'Fishing in Murky Waters' (memories
of Station X) Rev. Alan Rogers
2008 - GX3SDS - 2008
Click on the above logo to visit the official IMW web site.
GX3SDS (IMW 5031) OPERATING FROM THE NOTHE
FORT WEYMOUTH
June the 14th and 15th 2008
Pictures
of recent events are posted here
www.sdrs.zoomshare.com
The SDRS participates in 'Museums on the
air' weekend operating from the Nothe Fort in Weymouth. We are number 5031
on the IMW list and the official event web site with a list of other museums
and radio societies taking part can be found
at:-
www.ukradioamateur.co.uk/imw
For a few years prior to 2005 we used the
callsign GB2WNF, although in 2004 the event was combined
with the commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of D-Day (see
GB5OD - GB6OD for more details
of that event). In 2005/6 we used GB0NFM (Nothe Fort Museum). In 2007 we
decided to use the South Dorset Radio Society callsign GX3SDS for all future
events.
GB2WNF
GB2WNF
Visit
the official Nothe Fort Web
Site
Other Nothe Fort
Events
Click on the picture to visit GB2WNF
2002!
MORE LINKS
UK
Malawi DX-Pedition 2004
'40 Years of SDRS'
- Catswhisker Special
Go to CatsWhisker
index
IMD and other Marconi
links
SDRG
- www.gb3sd.radiouk.com
GX3SDS/P Nothe
Fort IMD Station Log (plain text file)
GB0PBL QSOs by band
report
Foundation licence
questions and answers!
The future of Amateur
Radio!
Free
RAE Course for download!
End of Morse Requirement
in the UK !
My Amateur Radio History
by Les,
G0FAJ Pictures of SDRS events from Les, G0FAJ
Nick's Story
M1NFM
SDRS
Mart - Buy or Sell here!
The look of Catswhisker
on the Web
Packet Radio - Edward
Harland G3VPF
Los Jello
Harpers - music from Spain!
A new addition to the
SDRS downloads page is a very useful
little 'freeware' program for keeping track of the time you spend connected
to the internet. Thanks to Des, G4FYT who passed it on to
us.
SILENT KEY - John (Jack) Wiseley,
KA4NCE
SILENT KEY - Don
Burt G8BFZ
SILENT KEY - George Smerdon
M5AMC
SILENT KEY - Patrick 'Paddy' Cox
G1XJH
SILENT KEY - Geoff Gwilliam
G4FJO
Ted Hall, G3ETA - Silent Key
SILENT KEY - John Ashton G4NTS
SILENT KEY - James (Don) Burt - G8BFZ
Don, who was a member of the SDRS from 1966 to 1974 died on the
24th December 2003 aged 72. He took his RAE with me in 1966 while we were
working together at Combens on Portland where we were both employed as television
engineers. He had not been active for some time.
Geoff, G0EVW
NEW RALLY
www.westrally.org.uk NEW
RALLY
LONGLEAT - THE END ? - This was the
last message received in 2003 however the new rally mentioned above is now
well established.
The Bristol RSGB Group regret to announce that they have had no
alternative but to cancel the 46th Longleat Rally, scheduled to take place
on the 29th of June.
Martyn Phillips, G3RFX, goes on to say: "It’s such a pity.
We had high hopes after Lord Bath’s personal agreement to the Rally
going ahead this year, albeit for the last time at Longleat, but since then
we’ve been unable to reach agreement with his Estate Office on the terms
and conditions. They duly presented us with a licence agreement containing
several highly debatable liability clauses – take it or leave it –
which nobody in their right mind would have signed. Indeed it’s almost
as if these had been included with the express purpose of making it impossible
for us to hold the Rally.
Meanwhile the Bristol RSGB Group are by no means giving up on the
Rally front and are currently looking for an alternative venue for 2004 and
beyond. A further announcement will be made in due course, when there will
hopefully be better news.
I hasten to add that some of the problems regarding the future
of the Longleat venue were directly due to the less than responsible behaviour
of a very small minority of visitors to the Rally."
TRAINING
FACILITIES
AMATEUR RADIO LICENCE INFORMATION
Training - members
of the South Dorset Radio Society and others in the Weymouth and Portland
area have been providing training and support for all the various licence
classes and Morse Code for many years. Please contact Neville, M5NEV
m5nev@g3sds.org.uk for more
information. Neville has also set up a web site here
www.wykeradio.org which is well worth looking
at.
For more details visit the RSGB at
www.rsgb.org or
Ofcom at
www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms
HELP WITH THE EXAM
QADV
- Questions for Radio Amateurs from G3KZB
Program QADV consists of multiple choice questions to help students
revise for the Advanced exam that qualifies radio amateurs for a Full UK
Licence. It is also suitable for students of the International exam (HAREC)
Dowload it here:
Radio
Amateur Exam Questions by G3KZB
www.g3sds.org.uk
Portland
Breakwater Lighthouse - ENG256