SLARC - South Lancs Amateur Radio Club

09/09/2025

Beacon Country Park ARDF Event

SLARC hosted the final Region 3 event of the season at Beacon Country Park this weekend.

SLARC hosted the final Region 3 event of the season at Beacon Country Park this weekend. The weather was not kind during the day with most of the competitors getting very wet indeed. There was a mi…

24/08/2025

Eastham Country Park ARDF Competition

Two of our members, John (G0JJL) and Nigel (2E0NRS), assisted Bill (G4YWD) from Wirral Amateur Radio Society (WARS) in facilitating the third RSGB Region 3 Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) event. Many thanks goes out to Bill who helped to organize the event with the Park wardens.

Two of our members, John (G0JJL) and Nigel (2E0NRS), assisted Bill (G4YWD) from Wirral Amateur Radio Society (WARS) in facilitating the third RSGB Region 3 Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) ev…

18/08/2025

Today 4 of our club members took the short journey over to ashurst beacon for a POTA activation GB-1281

This morning Monday 18th August 2025, four of our club members popped up to Ashurst Beacon, in Beacon Country Park, to attempt a POTA (Parks On The Air) Activation. Nigel (2E0NRS) was working 2m an…

19/07/2025

With ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station – We just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

09/07/2025

Hamshack hotline is closing down next month

Hamshack Hotline Allstar Bridge VoIP Service Is Closing Down 29th August 2025

08/07/2025

According to the crowsourced amsat.org/status the ARISS radios are back on line after the Progress outages.

The Columbus module cross-band voice repeater and Service modules packet radio (APRS) are both shown active.

08/07/2025

The planners have confirmed a 14-July start for the next ARISS SSTV series.
12 images will start transmitting around 09:15 UTC | 05:15 AM ET next Monday. Event will run across parts of 7 days.

24/06/2025

21/05/2025

Our repeater keeper promo Steve Curtis

📣 Only 4 days to go until HUBFest 2025! 🎉🎸📻
We’re back again in the rally field at Brow Farm, Shropshire (SY5 0SR) – and it’s shaping up to be another cracking event.
Time to get your gear sorted 📝
✅ Radios
✅ Antennas
✅ Cables
✅ Spares
✅ Batteries
✅ ...and don’t forget plenty of beer and food!
🎟️ Pricing:

Adults: £10/night
Children: £5/night
Dogs: £2/night
Hook-ups: £5/night

Whether you’re coming for one night, a few days, or the full event — you’ll be guaranteed a warm HUBNet welcome.
HUBFest is nearly here! 🔥

HUBNet UK Steve Curtis

04/05/2025

A little certificate from the last 145 alive event from the day before the NARSA rally at the Norbreck castle hotel in Blackpool. Myself Stu M7SPI representing the South Lancs Amateur Radio Club & Chris Smith M7CCS representing the WDRG under the WALES DIGITAL RADIO GROUP/GRWP RADIO DIGITAL CYMRU callsign MC5WRG.