CARS Club GX0MWT

Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society news, events and information from the birthplace of radio. For more about courses see @TrainWithCARS

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Our May Meeting on 5-May-2026, is "How Low Can You Go..." By Andy Tyler G1GKN - about the Low Frequency world below the 160m -in the very different long wavelength regime of VLF and LF. https://t.co/gJodGAYwJs

All Welcome - Free raffle and refreshments - donations to charity

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

All welcome to our September Meeting on Tuesday
2-Sep-2025, 7.30pm for the "Essex Table Top Sale", hosted by CARS, at Danbury Village Hall.

Including a major SK Sales clear-out
Morse-keys sale etc
https://t.co/erKDNdermZ

Tables coordinator, Paul G4PVM

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

All welcome at our Tuesday 1st-Jul-2025 meeting, 7.30-9pm at Danbury Village Hall

Guest speaker: Jim Salmon 2E0RMI

Topic: "It's Radio Jim... but not as we Hams know it ?! '
Jim will present on a collection of radio topics that fall between the ham bands.

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

All welcome at our Tuesday 1st-Jul-2025 meeting, 7.30-9pm at Danbury Village Hall

Guest speaker: Jim Salmon 2E0RMI

Topic: "It's Radio Jim... but not as we Hams know it ?! '
Jim will present on a collection of radio topics that fall between the ham bands.

[CARS Training @TrainWithCARS]

Registration is now open for our Autumn class-based courses at Danbury:
Thursday 2nd, 9th and 16th October 2025 @  7-9pm - Full/Intermediate level Exam Technique and 'How to Pass' 😃
More info at https://t.co/92TXxRJTt3

[CARS Training @TrainWithCARS]

All are welcome to our May-6 meeting, 7:30pm at Danbury. A great chance to meet the RSGB Region-12 Team and hear about their work, or raise concerns/ideas. Guests are:
Brian Woolnough M5ADQ - overall Region-12 Rep (East Anglia)
Dave Cutts M0TAZ - Essex District Rep

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

All are welcome to join us for this evenings Skills session evening at Danbury

Kit Building: Morse Tutors, FM/AM Radio Kits, intrusion alarm

SK-Sales - smaller items left by Tony G4YTG - offers to John M0JOC

Quiz - the latest question set :)

Raffle - great prizes!

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Listen out for GB90CH (along with GB9ORE at Daventry and GB2BRS at Bawdsey) marking the 90th anniversary of the Daventry Experiment and the Birth of British Radar - more info at https://t.co/KdsNJYVJtE

Reports via eQSL

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

All welcome on Tuesday evening at Danbury

RF Expert Andy G1GKN will recount the elegant Daventry Experiment in Feb-1935 that led to radar in time for WW2.

Air traffic control, cruise control car radars and the microwave oven all owe their origins to this innovative work.

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Despite the cold weather, Radio Construction and HF is alive and well :)
Photos from the CARS Jan-mtg

[CARS Training @TrainWithCARS]

Learn more about HF Propagation at the next CARS Meeting on Thursday 5th November at Danbury when RadCom expert Gwyn G4FKH explains all

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Join us this evening at Danbury where Iain Moffatt G0OZS will be talking on Military radios. The talk and display will explain the differences between military and amateur use, operating techniques and how to get the best from them on the amateur bands https://t.co/DOwCAPw6wm

[RSGB @theRSGB]

Today at HAM RADIO in Friedrichshafen, we were very happy to present Murray Niman, G6JYB with the Life Vice President award, a title he gained at April's AGM.
🙌Congratulations again, Murray! (photo with RSGB President, John McCullagh, GI4BWM)
FFI: https://t.co/MlVLoXidxG
#hamr

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Join us at Danbury this evening (Tue May-7) for a talk and demo by Oscar 2E1HWE on multimode digital voice. The event includes a demo, and an update on Oscar's new multimode repeater GB7IX near Southend, one of the first under the new Ofcom 5Werp licence clause.

All welcome !

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Its Marconi Day!

Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society will be on air with GX0MWT (Marconi Wireless Telegraph) as one of the award stations - https://t.co/4LL4I2jg9i

And if you miss us today, you catch us as GB9MWT for the Marconi -150 anniversary 1874-2024

[RSGB @theRSGB]

📣Don't forget International Marconi Day is on 27 April.
The Cornish Radio Amateur Club is organising & running the event. Lots of #amateurradio stations will be operating from sites that Marconi operated from or had a personal connection with.
FFI visit:https://t.co/hA5SH1VdQn

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Reminder - All welcome at Danbury this evening for our Construction Competition - with cash prizes for winners and first timers!

Also: Our latest newsletter is in the 2024 folder here:
https://t.co/2IQfb5CVCB

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

All welcome on Tuesday March-5 for a talk by the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust (FACT - https://t.co/bCHBVEwIwL), who look after the Tollesbury Light Vessel, but who have a wide range of other activities. Venue: Danbury Village Hall at 7:30pm

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

Join us on Tue 7:30pm, at CARS, when @theRSGB Spectrum Chair Murray, G6JYB will give an update on the Ofcom Licence Review and implications. The meeting begins with a VHF hands-on session using the club’s new antenna. Refreshments and a raffle will also feature. All are welcome

[CARS Club GX0MWT @ChelmsfordARS]

CARS and @EssexERG will be there - with some great bargains

[RSGB @theRSGB]

Don't forget the Canvey Rally is on Sunday 4 February at Cornelius Vermuyden School, Canvey, Essex, SS8 9QS. The Rally is expected to be the usual hive of activity with plenty of traders on site. For more information contact Richard Stanley on 07725 551 263 #amateurradio #hamr