ABOUT N.A.D.A.R.S.

The Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society (NADARS) has been in existence for over 50 years.
The Call Sign of the  Society is G5XV.

We hold meetings on the fourth Wednesday of the month,  meetings will be held at 19:30 at:

 
The Travellers Friend, Crookham, Common, Thatcham, Berks RG19 8EA  .

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At these meetings there is usually a lecture which is relating to radio.

We hold many other social and radio related events. These include bi monthly courses to enable members of the public to become radio amateurs. We hold two day "Foundation Licence" courses which train a person how to operate an amateur radio station safely. After the course we hold a basic examination. To date we have a 98% success rate with this course.

We also hold an annual Car Boot Sale / Radio Rally in June at the Newbury showground where many Radio and Computing bargains may be found. This attracts visitors from all over the country.

For further information contact

 or 01635-46241

NEWBURY RADIO RALLY & BOOT SALE

 Sunday 21st June 2009.

Visitors Entrance £2.00 per Person

Visitors parking Free

Pitch £10.00 each

Erect you own Marquee £50.00

Catering,

Talk in on 145.550 Mhz.

Thank you to all those that attended our 2007 Event and helped to make it a success. comments can be emailed to the email address below.

Information requests should be sent to the same email address

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FOUNDATION AND INTERMEDIATE COURSES.

A Licence is required to operate an Amateur Radio Transmitting station. (Click above link for details of courses)

To help you enter this fascinating hobby, we run a programme of weekend Foundation and Intermediate Amateur Radio courses and Exams. These are the first and second stages in the new suite of three Examinations designed to give access to the Amateur Radio Bands.
We also host examinations only for the Advanced Licence, the Third and Final Examination.

To date, approximately 170 candidates have attended our courses held at Newtown Village Hall. Our success rate is impressive and many of the newly licensed Radio Amateurs had no prior knowledge of radio and electronics before embarking on our courses.
 

For course dates click on link below, new course added frequently

Course Information

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Some of our contest team members

How do I start?

Contests occur most weekends, They very from National Society to International Contest. If you want to find out what contests are on click on the Contesting Link and follow the links provided to two of the Contest Listing sites. Read the rules and listen for a while for the exchanges. It is a good way to work new countries as all stations will want to work you for the extra points . Look out for club organised contests and come along and help / operate