This is the website of the RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club, based at the Pyewipe Inn, Lincoln, England.
We are a group of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience, all with a shared passion for everything radio! Not sure what amateur radio is? Find out all about it at the Radio Society of Great Britain.
We hope you enjoy your visit to our site and look forward to meeting you on a club night or on the air.
Steve’s talk, “The Speccy Geek” - sub-titled “The making of a home computer and a software engineer” - was a fascinating sequel to Andy’s excellent talk on all things Sinclair last month.
Remember all the fun you had with the ZX81 or Spectrum? Those of us who attended Andy’s fascinating talk had the chance to re-live those days.
A reminder to all members that the club’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Friday, 12th January 2024, starting at 8pm. The meeting takes place in the Clock Room at the Pyewipe Inn, so there will be enough room for all who wish to attend, and members are encouraged to do so.
This event was run to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the RAF receiving its first Typhoon on December 18th 2003.
To help commemorate this event the RAF Coningsby ARC members will be putting GX3LQS/P on the air from different locations during November & December for the Typhoons’ 20th anniversary.
Members of the club were operational again at former RAF Binbrook during the weekend of 6-8 October, activating this location for Airfields on the Air.
We were back at the Newark Air Museum for the weekend of 16-17 September, for the 60th anniversary of the museum’s Avro Vulcan XM594 entering RAF service in September 1963 at RAF Scampton.
Using the callsign GB0NAM, we made many contacts on HF (CW and SSB), and on 2m. Our thanks to those stations who took the time to contact us on what was a very enjoyable weekend in fine weather. The Maidenhead/QRA locator for the museum is IO93OC and the WAB square is SK85.
Members of RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club were on the air for the “Wings and Wheels” event at the International Bomber Command Centre this Sunday, 3rd September, using the callsign GB6IBC. We made a number of contacts with radio amateurs and would like to thank all the stations who took the time to contact us. We were also able to promote amateur radio to the many members of the publlic who visitied the station during the day!