ABOUT US

HISTORY OF THE CLUB

The Andover club started life in 1978 when Martin Bushnell and Peter Wright G8GYS decided to winkle out other like minded electronics enthusiasts in the Andover area.  Peter was running fast scan TV at the time and others were able to use ordinary TV sets to monitor his transmissions.  In fact the firm of Link Electronics in Andover was a breeding ground for members housing as it did G8ADM Dave Mann and G8AER John Tanner.

After the club started to meet regularly the membership snowballed and other licensed amateurs joined in preferring the local club to the well established but somewhat distant club at Salisbury.  ARAC has always been happy to accept members with widely differing backgrounds and it absorbed many from the CB fraternity alongside experienced signallers from the Services and engineers from the radio and TV trade.

The club’s venue has moved about over the years in an attempt to find that perfect location ie plenty of room for antennas and cars.  So at the present time we are located in the village of Wildhern (now becoming well known for the Spring and Autumn Car Boot sales that we hold there).  The club operates from the Village hall there which is well elevated for VHF operation and is remote enough from the village houses to cause no interference to TVs and the like.

The club provides Foundation and Intermediate courses on a demand basis under the control of Keith GØHKC and Andy G6JRS and has had a 100% pass rate to date.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2nd Dec 2008

Those present:Andy G6JRS, Terry G8ALR, Jim G4NWJ, Keith G0HKC,

Martin M0MWSBob G3ZNH, Derek M3WHP, Brian M3CEB, Rod G6YEY, Cliff G0WKK,

Andy G4ABL, Tony G0OMD,Tony G6FIB, Jack G0UJW, Jim M3FWS, Lawrence M3LBK.

Please click here to open or download the AGM Minutes from this meeting > OPEN MINUTES

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING December 2009

Here are the voting forms for this years AGM, they are in PDF format - simply click on either of the forms to open them.  Please note that they must be received by the Secretary by November 17th 2009 >OPEN FORM (WITH NOMINATIONS INCLUDED) or alternatively you can OPEN BLANK FORM