Tag: WAB TF19

RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club returned to former RAF Binbrook for Remembrance Weekend SES over the weekend of 9-10 November, using the club callsign of G0RAF to remember the brave crews who flew from RAF Binbrook. We were operational on HF (mostly SSB with some CW on Sunday) and 2m FM, making contacts with 211…

RAF Waddington ARC ran a Special Event Station GB0EEL on the weekend of 2-3 August 2024 at former RAF Binbrook. This was the 70th anniversary of the first test flight on 4th August 1954, from RAF Boscombe Down, of the English Electric P1A (WG760), the type that was later to become the English Electric Lightning,…

RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club ran a Special Event Station for Airfields on the Air over the weekend of 5-7 April at former RAF Binbrook, using the callsign GB5BK. Operation was on HF SSB, CW and FT8 and 2m, with more than 300 contacts made, despite the windy conditions on site. As always, the team…

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. Some Club members with the support…

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. Our thanks to the many stations who took the time to contact us!