by John Navin | Jun 18, 2026 | News
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...
by Editor | Jun 6, 2026 | News
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...
by Editor | May 30, 2026 | News
The chair getting busy with a screwdriver A 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...
by Editor | May 13, 2026 | News
MILLS ON THE AIR 2026 The Isle of Wight Radio Society was busy over the weekend 9-10 May activating Calbourne Mill – a unique place that has two MOTA entities: X59675 (a windmill) and X59210 (a water mill) on the same site. The Club station G3SKY made 200 QSOs in...
by Editor | May 3, 2026 | News
Roger G8NHG and Steve M0RQD paid a visit to a great bunch of guys over from Belgium who are on the IOW for 5 days to play radio. They have a fantastic array of antennas from 23cms up to QO100 sattelite dish. They have had a successful moon bounce QSO where they spoke...
by Editor | Apr 25, 2026 | News
At least it was a nice day
