The Isle of Wight Radio Society
The Isle of Wight Radio Society
The Isle of Wight Radio Society The Society, the oldest radio club on the Island, has now passed its 60th year. It was founded by Arthur Wakeley G3MAD,
later to become our President, now sadly silent key, and Eric Jolliffe G3IMX, together with several other amateurs to give encouragement to those wanting to qualify for the RAE examinations and to ensure help was available after obtaining the licence. The inaugural meeting was held on the 9th October 1959 when the constitution was drawn up.
ShedFest 2026
The club attended Shedfest 2026 at Sandown airport on 13/14 June. We arrived early on the Friday to set up and managed to secured a corner pitch so we could keep M9OPD’s van on site and attach a 10M DX Commander mast to the roof. A gazebo was erected with chairs and a...
No longer QO100 virgins
Once again it was a busy night in the shack. The QO100 transciever built by Roger, G8NHG and firtled by Mark G4DOT was installed ready for the clubs first transmission to the QO100 geostationary sattelite. After a few speedy updates and unplugging things and plugging...
Friday night is club night!
The chair getting busy with a screwdriverA busy night in the clubhouse on Friday. We got a new screen mounted on the wall to show the hamclock for the HF users. Thanks to Simon G2CNN for the screen and Trevor G4RFM for the mount. With a group of Roger, Steve and John...
Silent Keys, in memoriam
The Isle of Wight Radio Society would like to thank the friends and relatives of silent key Radio Amateurs for the donation of their equipment. Such equipment will remain within the Amateur Radio community either used by the Club or through onward sale to other Radio Amateurs. Any moneys obtained will be used by the Club to improve its facilities for the benefit of its Members.
Specifically we would like to remember:-
Paul Whitelock G0GMY – Paul was a staunch support of the club and held several officers posts and will be missed.
Mick Buckland 2E0BUK who kindly donated equipment to the club