GW4TTA

Clwb Radio Amatur y Ddraig

Dragon Amateur Radio Club
(affiliated to the rsgb)

Chairman:- Geoff Spencer GW4DRR tel. no. 01407 730858

Secretary:- Leslie Heyward MW0SEC tel.no. 01248 470606
email:- mw0sec@corfe-castle.demon.co.uk



The Dragon Club has been in existence for almost 15 years. During that time it has had a number of meeting places including the Four Crosses Hotel and the University. The Club recently moved to Llanfairpwll and meets at the Ebenezer Church Hall, Lon Foel Graig, Upper Village, (see map).  The Church Hall is an ideal Club House being recently modernised with fitted kitchen, central heating and ample parking.

Club members come from all walks of life and encompass a wide range of ages. Whereas a large number of members hold a current Amateur Radio Certificate this is certainly not true of all Club members. Dewi Roberts (GW0ABL), ably assisted by a number of Club members provide tuition for those interested in obtaining the relevant qualification leading to an amateur call sign. 

Club meetings are held twice monthly on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, commencing 7.30pm for 8.00pm. The meetings start off quite informally with members socialising generally, followed by a talk/demonstration or general discussion on radio related matters given by either one of the Club members or a visiting "expert" (see copy of the latest programme). Visits are sometimes arranged to places of interest. Club members were recently taken on a guided tour of local BBC/ITV Broadcast stations. We have also visited 22 Squadron at RAF Valley and a number of other interesting venues. The evening finishes off with tea/coffee and biscuits and more general chat.

The Club has it’s own equipment comprising amateur transceivers, towers, antennas, generators etc. and these are used regularly at special event stations.  For these events the Club is allocated a special call sign and members set up a station at a particular location. This work is co-ordinated by a Station Manager appointed by the Club.  One of our regular yearly "events" take place from the site of the old Marconi long wave transmitting station at Waunfawr near Caernarfon. The Club recently took part  in the Maritime Coastal Radio Station Event commemorating the service provided by Maritime Coastal Radio Stations throughout the world.  Our station was operated from the Club's caravan at the old Anglesey Radio (GLV) site, using the call sign GB0GLV.

Special cards (QSL or verification cards) are printed and exchanged with the stations we contact at these events and this work is handled by the Club’s own QSL Manager. The Club also has it’s own call sign and individual QSL card.  

Visitors are always welcome at Club meetings. For further information including Club Membership forms, please contact the Club Secretary, (see above).


At a recent meeting of the Club it was decided to stop sending out complimentary copies of the Newsletter but instead to put the latest edition on the Club's web pages.


These pages were mainly put together using Netscape Composer apart from the marquee on my own home page which was constructed using FrontPage Express.  Unfortunately due to anomalies between the two programmes the marquee will only scroll when viewed using Internet Explorer...  I've not used any tables or frames and made limited use of gifs etc so hopefully pages will not take too long to download.  Some of the gifs used were obtained off the 'net and are used wherever possible with the author's permission.  If you find any broken links, either local or to remote urls please do let me know so that they can be repaired.   Pages are probably best when viewed using 800x600.  Finally please email me any comments or suggestions you may have - thanks.  Best 73's de John GW3VVC.

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Page updated 12th. September 2006