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MKARS News
Welcome to MKARS the Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society.
With over 50 years of history and 100 members MKARS is one of the largest amateur radio clubs in Britain. Please feel free to visit us on our club nights or at any of the events in our diary.
To find out more about MKARS and what we have been up to check out our news items below or subscribe to our news feed. For more information on our news and diary feeds please check out our feed information page.
S.D.R. Talk...Tuesday 18th June.
Graham G7OSR Will Be Giving A Talk And Demonstration About S.D.R.
Using Very Inexpensive Components..
NLFOT
A really big thank you to all the members that attended Newton Longville Festival of Transport about 1/4 of members turned up to offer support or help with our stall.
Training is starting up at Longueville Hall
Now that we are established at Longueville Hall, a training plan has now been put together to carry out Training at Longueville Hall. If you are interested please go to the MKARS Training pages on the Forum.
NEW venue for our 2013 Rally
The MKARS Annual Radio Rally, Sunday, 25th August 2013 (Bank Holiday)
Longueville Hall
HammondPark
Whaddon Road
Newton Longville
Milton Keynes MK17 0AT
This superb modern venue provides many new features that were just not possible at our previous location. With Bletchley Park still being close by, you could also combine a visit to our rally with BP and visit the National Radio Centre (NRC) as well.
Just look at what we can now offer!!!
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FREE ON-SITE PARKING
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LARGE INDOOR SPACE
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DOGS ALLOWED
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INSIDE CATERING
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A BAR
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CAR BOOT AREA
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LARGE OUTDOOR SPACE
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TOILETS/SHOWER AREA
New Venue for MKARS
MKARS is now established in the new weekly meeting venue.
Which is at Longueville Hall, Newton Longeville, Whaddon Road, Newton Longville, MK17 0AT.
Meetings are on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 - 9:30pm.
If you enter MK17 0AT in Google maps the turning off the road is marked 'Festival of Transport'
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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
An odd week with only Sunday being really outstanding. One further oddity was TB5ZND (Turkey) being top spotter on Wednesday and in amongst them on other days. Normally I would expect a good showing for him in the DX list. XR80PDI is a special call for 80th Anniversary Of The Chilean Investigation Police. So no one will argue with their QSL claims!
AMSAT Field Day 2013
Every year AMSAT promotes a satellite version of Field Day during the ARRL annual operating event which is held on the 4th weekend in June. This year Field Day will take place from 1800 UTC on Saturday June 22, 2013 through 2100 UTC on Sunday June 23, 2013
Aves Island DXpedition
It was announced that the 4M5DX Group is planning a DXpedition to Aves Island (NA-020) sometime between November 1st, 2013, and February 28th, 2014