South Yorkshire Repeater Group

The Rotherham Show

September 12, 2010

The Rotherham Show in Clifton Park was a fantastic weekend for the group to promote amateur radio in the community.

With over 20,000 visitors pass by we had great fun talking to people and demonstrating the many facets and modes of the hobby, from local analouge, through Satellite work, HF with a few experimental antennas and obviously D-Star.

We also met up with some great local contacts such as the scouts and the emergency and safety team at Rotherham Council.

G4LUE chatted with a lovely lady from the Asian Radio Network about the possiblity of him giving a community radio interview explaining the work the SYRG do.

Local HAMS and the Dave Wilson of the RSGB dropped in too to see how SYRG spreads the word, the support was very much appreciated.

Thanks to all who supported this weekend. The Local HAMs we met and all from the many varied and splendid community that is Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

You can check out the Rotherham Show pictures in our gallery at

http://www.syrg.net/snaps/rotherham-show-2010

See you at the 20th Great Northern Hamfest on Sunday 19th September 2010!

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Global Tuners

March 26, 2010

This week I found on the internet GlobalTuners and have spent some time playing with it.

If like me you don’t have HF at home or you are a short wave listener – GlobalTuners provides access to remotely controlled radio receivers all over the world. You can listen to - and tune the receivers once you have created a (free!) account.

You can also share your own receiver too on GlobalTuners.

To find out more visit : http://www.globaltuners.com

All the best and have fun!

Ian – de M6DER

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