Saltash & District Amateur Radio Club (SADARC)

Due to the imminent closure of the Toc H Hall, the club has relocated to the Burraton Community Centre (Lower Hall), Grenfell Avenue, Saltash, PL12 4JB and changed meeting nights to the first Friday in each month (see Meetings for further information.)

• Chairman: John Painter
• Secretary: Brian Giles M0BHG
• Treasurer: Bert Lee G7FTF
• Committee: Trev Day G3ZYY
• Committee: Ian Dawe G3SPI
• Committee: Geoff Markey M0GGM
• Webmaster: Kevin Hale G0AKH

Subscription rates remain the same at £7.50 for Adults, £1.00 for Junior members (under 17) with the first year FREE.

The committee will shortly be meeting to determine the programme for next year, so would members please forward suggestions for future speakers/visits to any of the officers or committee.

Saltash and District Amateur Radio Club put on a Special Event Station in Saltash to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the world famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel within sight of one of his most famous pieces of railway architecture, the Royal Albert Bridge. The station was on the air over the weekend of the 8th and 9th of April 2006 - the 9th April being the anniversary of Brunel's birthday. There are special QSL cards and all stations will receive one. SWL reports are also welcome, either via the bureau, or via e-mail to GB200IKB@sadarc.co.uk

See the pictures page for images of the station

The Saltash and District Amateur Radio Club (SADARC) was formed in 1964 after some informal meetings of Radio Amateurs and Short Wave Listeners at the QTH of Bob Ellis, G3SN. We have just commemorated our 40th year of existence with a celebratory dinner, which many members, past and present, attended.

In the past, we have run very successful mobile rallies, and in August 1996, SADARC activated a special event station, GB0HJC, to commemorate the centenary of Captain Sir Henry Jackson's historic radio experiments from HMS Defiance, a torpedo training school moored in the River Lynher at Saltash. He began experimenting in December 1895 and by autumn of 1896 with his transmitter mounted on another vessel, Jackson was receiving signals at a range of 300 yards, making him the first Briton to use radio waves for practical communication. Click here for pictures of Jackson, his radio equipment and HMS Defiance. Despite being in direct competition, Jackson later became a great friend of Guglielmo Marconi.

After over 40 years of meeting at the Toc H Hall, Saltash, we have needed to move, so SADARC now meets at the Burraton Community Centre (Lower Hall), Grenfell Avenue, Saltash, at 7.30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. (See map)

SADARC holds two callsigns, G4GXK and G8SAL, and is affiliated to the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and the Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society (RNARS).