Reading DX Meeting - going strong for over 30 years!
Saturday 22 November 2008: Reading DX meeting 1430-1700 UTC in room 3 at Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street RG1 4PS. (see below for details).
Sunday 30 November 2008: Bletchley Park lecture at 1430. Historian Sir Martin Gilbert will be giving a special lecture in the Ballroom of the Bletchley Park Mansion near Milton Keynes entitled 'Churchill and Enigma'. Winston Churchill's biographer will examine Churchill's wartime policies in the light of Enigma and will show the place of Signals Intelligence in the evolution of British strategy and its role in all the main developments of the Second World War on land, at sea and in the air. Tickets £10, limited availability. To pre-book, please contact Victoria Pether on 01908 640404 or e-mail info[at]bletchleypark.org.uk
Saturday 6 December 2008: BDXC Twickenham Christmas meeting and meal. A popular fixture on the BDXC calendar in years past, this year we will once again have a meeting and a meal in the club's 'birthplace' where there's a chance to join in some festive cheer with fellow DXers and radio enthusiasts. The meeting starts at 1600 UTC at the Eel Pie pub in Church Street, Twickenham followed at 1900 by an optional meal in a nearby restaurant. Please let us know if you plan to come to the meal as we need to know the numbers in advance. For further details, to book the meal, or to receive updates on the meeting, send your mobile phone number and/or e-mail address to mark[at]bdxc.org.uk
Wednesday 24 December 2008: Special transmission by the historic Alexanderson alternator VLF station SAQ from Grimeton, Sweden. Tuning up from 0730 UTC, transmissions at 0800 and 0815 UTC. QSL card available. Further details on SAQ web site
Saturday 7 February 2009: Reading DX meeting 1430-1700 UTC in room 3 at Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street RG1 4PS. (see below for details).
Saturday 18 April 2009: Reading DX meeting 1430-1700 UTC in room 3 at Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street RG1 4PS. (see below for details).
Saturday 6 June 2009: Reading DX meeting 1430-1700 UTC in room 3 at Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street RG1 4PS. (see below for details).
Saturday June/July 2009: BDXC Twickenham midsummer meeting. A summer Saturday get-together in the pleasant riverside environment of the club's original 'home town' is now a well-established BDXC tradition. Join us by the waterside at The Barmy Arms, The Embankment TW1 3DU any time between 1600 and 1900, followed by the (optional) Indian meal in Twickenham's quaint Church Street. Further details from mark [at] bdxc.org.uk Tel 07711 616908
These are held around the UK throughout the year. A full list of rallies and other amateur radio events may be found on the RSGB web site
For the FM and TV DXer, a list of key dates for the major meteor showers during 2008:
Name of shower Overall dates (Peaking date)The following meetings are held regularly. Feel free to go along and enjoy the chance to meet fellow radio enthusiasts! Details of the dates of future meetings are in the next section.
Reading DX Meeting - going strong for over 30 years!These inter-club meetings of the Reading International Radio Group are an opportunity for friends from all the UK DX clubs to meet together. They have been held regularly since 1976 and are still proving to be very popular. Since February 2005 the meetings have been held in the meeting rooms at the Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS. RISC has a cafe/bar (RISC Global Cafe) and shop (The World Shop) in London Street, the meeting rooms are at the back, the entrance is via a small passage just beyond the RISC shop - or ask for directions in the shop or bar. The meeting itself starts at 1430, though some members meet first in the RISC Global cafe/bar from about 1400. The meetings last about two and a half hours, followed by an optional drink and curry at a local Indian restaurant. For anyone attending the meeting by car there is free parking at the back of the RISC centre (NB access to the carpark is via East Street, off South Street). By rail, London Street is approx 12 minutes walk from Reading station. It is just south of the main town centre. Further details from Mike Barraclough on (01462) 643899 or via e-mail - mikewb[at]dircon.co.uk ** RISC has a web site including directions (see "Where Are We?") at www.risc.org.uk
North West DX MeetingsThese occasional meetings began some years ago in Manchester and soon diversified to include all radio enthusiasts including radio amateurs, airband listeners, utility band monitors etc as well as the short wave broadcast band DXers from the BDXC. The meetings now usually take place in Macclesfield, with an informal pub meeting and optional meal. All are welcome. For further details please contact Tom Read Tel 01625 612916 or email tommyread[at]hotmail.com **. On the night you can also contact Tom on mobile telephone 07724 113877 or 07821 151504 or via 2m amateur radio on 145.500 MHz (the 2m calling channel).
Twickenham Summer DX MeetingA Saturday in mid Summer has become a firm favourite event on the BDXC calendar. A lazy summer afternoon by the Thames supping a pint or four and chatting about anything and everything - though naturally radio is top of the agenda! - is the prospect and for those that wish to do so an Indian meal at a nearby restaurant follows at about 7pm. Fine weather cannot be guaranteed, of course, but it has accompanied us for four of the last five years. If you want to come to the meal please be sure to let us know well in advance so that we can book a place for you. Further details from Mark Savage email: mark[at]bdxc.org.uk ** or tel 07711 616908.
Photo taken by the River Thames at our Twickenham DX meeting on 21 June 2008 (left to right: Mike Barraclough, Mark Savage, Mike Terry, Andrew Tett, Dave Kenny, Stuart Heathcock, Gareth Foster, Stephen Howie, Jon Ryland, Ian Kelly, Ken Fletcher, Darren Rozier).
Below photo from our July 2006 meeting (left to right: Dave Kenny, Klaus Werner, Stephen Howie, Mark Savage, Keith Knight, Colin Ferris, Mike Terry, Chris Greenway, Mike Barraclough, Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Stuart Heathcock, Alan Pennington).
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