Crawley Amateur Radio Club

Club member Eddie was disappointed when the centre pin of his antenna broke inside his Uniden UBC XLT125 radio scanner .  Rather than send the radio to landfill, Eddie decided to repair it. After asking advice from other club members, he purchased a replacement BNC aerial chassis mount socket from RS , The job took took about two hours to complete, and the finished result looks very impressive. Nice work Eddie!

Last week, members of the club were busy lowering their antenna mast, reinstalling the driven element of our SteppIR, and replacing the damaged 80m dipole. We invited new member Oliver to write a few words on how he found the experience, and his overall view of the club. “A repair was made to the main club mast antenna as a new member this was my first opportunity to see everything up close as the antenna mast had to come down to perform the repair. I found seeing everything up close very interesting. When I did have a few questions about what things did, fellow club members were more than willing to explain. As a wheelchair user myself, I   sometimes find some human and physical barriers. However, joining Crawley Amateur Radio Club I have found that everyone was willing to help and come up with solutions. When I first started coming to the club I was asked if there was anything they could do to adapt things to make it easier for myself in the hut. Club members have also be...

Crawley Amateur Radio Club would like to thank everyone (including visitors, members, and guests from other clubs and organisations) who came to our October 2025 open day, and helped make it such a success. If you missed our open day, then you are always most welcome to visit us on a Sunday morning between 11am and 1pm.

 Some of you may be familiar with the software of Simon Brown, G4ELI.  While still working full-time he was the creator of the then free Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) suite of software which he sold a few years ago. Since then he launched the excellent SDR Console software which is a "must have" for anyone experimenting with SDR Radios.  I'm sure some of you this installed on your shack PCs. Less well known is a great little utility simply called "Simon's World Map".  The newly released V1.5.1 is available for download here  https://www.sdr-radio.com/world-map   As ever with Simon's software, it's richly featured with satellite tracking and rotator control.  The presentation is widely customisable allowing overlays such as ITU or CQ Zone, sun and moon overlays and space weather information plus greyline visualisation. Take a look as the price is right, FREE. Regards Mike, G0KAD