The Wythall Radio Club is one of the most active clubs in the Midlands. Meeting every Tuesday evening from 8pm onwards at the Wythall Community Association, Wythall Park, Silver Street, Wythall where it has been able to build a permanent shack and an HF to UHF antenna system mounted on a 60ft Versatower. It has some 55 paid up members with a few overseas members in Italy, USA and Holland.
The club takes part in special events such as Steam Fairs, Mills on Air, JOTA and other local events. We have Christmas parties and the club Christmas Contest which really gets many members in touch with each other.

Wythall Contest Group is part of Wythall Radio club, formed several years ago when contests began to be entered in earnest by several club members.
Membership is automatically granted to all members of Wythall Radio Club club itself, although only a die-hard group of individuals turn out to enter the contests !

The aims of Wythall Contest Group are:

To encourage amateur radio contesting amongst members the club.
To improve operating proficiency.
To have fun and finally : To do better than last year !
The contest group enters over 40 contests per year using all contest bands from 1.8 MHz to 1296 MHz, including SSB, CW, and RTTY. On HF, RSGB, CQ, BARTG, IARU and ARRL contests have been entered amongst others.

The club's mission statement is to have FUN in everything it does. To read more click here.

If you would like to visit us you would be made most welcome. To contact the club please click here.

Message from Dave Gourley G0MJY, RSGB Region 5 Manager

Train the Trainers Day in the Midlands

Wythall Radio Club has kindly offered to host a Training Day for Trainers. This event will take place in the Britannia Room at Wythall house, Silver Street, Wythall, Nr Birmingham B47 6LZ on Sunday 18th May 2008 9am to 4 pm.

This event is open to all individuals that are involved with running Foundation, Intermediate and full courses at their radio clubs, not only the tutors but any one who assists, with the courses.

If you intend to take up this free training day could you please let Chris Pettitt g0eyo@blueyonder.co.uk know so he can make final arrangements and make and note in your diaries?

100% Success Rate on Club’s First Intermediate Exam

Six students passed the Club's first Intermediate Examination on Tuesday 22nd January following an intensive course held over two weekends. Wythall Radio Club offers its heartiest congratulations to :- Colin M3OFW, Neil M3POV, Mel M3OFJ, Jim M3JPP, Tim M3SDE and James M3BAV [more].

Advanced Course starting in February

Looking for an Advanced Radio Amateurs Examination Course?. Well Wythall Radio Club are starting a 14 week evening course on Tuesday February 19th. It will run on either Tuesday or a Friday depending upon the course week and places are still available. A full Course Schedule can be downloaded from our website HERE or visit our training page. The course finishes on May 20th and the Examination will be on May 22nd at Wythall House, Silver Street, Wythall, B47 6LZ.

Fees will be £90 or £80 if a current member of Wythall Radio Club. Fees include examination costs, free study book, learning materials, refreshments, room hire and other club costs.

These fees are currently being subsidized by the National Lottery Awards for All

The Advanced RAE is still a multiple choice paper but there is no practical work. It again covers radio theory and license conditions but because holding a full license enables you to use 400 Watts power output to your transmitter such subjects as Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC), antenna design and safety issues are covered in some depth. The license allows access to all the amateur band allocations. As an Advanced license holder you will become an M0 callsign.

You do not have to be a Wythall Radio Club member to take this course and examination but you do have to have passed the Foundation and Intermediate examinations.

If you are interested in the above course then please contact Chris Pettitt G0EYO Training Co-ordinator Wythall Radio Club g0eyo[at]wythallradioclub[dot]co[dot]uk or telephone on 07710 412 819.

Thanks
Chris G0EYO

Training Courses

Wythall Radio Club, is pleased to announce that we have been awarded National Lottery Awards for All funds in excess of £5000 to help us provide training courses for those members of the local and wider community who wish to gain an amateur radio transmitting license.

The Club propose to extend the current range of training provided for the Foundation level license to include, Intermediate and Advanced Full Amateur Radio Licenses.

The Club shall be doing this by running a series of tuition classes, workshops and examinations, with a focus on young, retired, disabled and educationally challenged people in the local community where the radio club is based and the surrounding area.

So go on don‘t put it off, Get in touch, Get licensed....
PRESS THE RED BUTTON !!

The 23rd Annual Wythall Radio & Computer Rally
9th March 2008

MW5W CQWW Phone contest
(October 27th - 28th 2007)

Over the weekend of the CQWW Phone contest (October 27th - 28th 2007) members of the Wythall Radio Club and Contest Group, along with some friends, will be on the air from a group members farm on the Pembrokeshire coast, West Wales. We will be using the clubs call MW5W and some of the operators will be on the air before the contest signing their own call, for example G1VDP will become GW1VDP, from the Farm. G1VDP will also be operating some CW and DATA from the location in the days before the contest