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WHO ARE WE?

The Camb-Hams were formed in early 2006 as the social and public-facing side of the Cambridgeshire Repeater Group, although membership of the group is not compulsory.

We meet on-air via the group’s VHF and UHF FM Voice repeaters, and at regular monthly Pie and a Pint nights. Our contesting side, using the CRG call sign G3PYE, aims to provide an opportunity for non-contest operators to have a go, whilst putting a concerted effort into entering a particular contest. Our first effort was VHF NFD 2006 click here for photos.

On the social side we are available to mount special event stations, such as GB0TAB which was on air Sept 2nd 2006 from the Anchor at Burwell click here for photos. Have a look at the pictures from the 2006 RSGB VHF NFD (Click for pics of the weekend). More and more will be posted to this site as we get it organized. Stay tuned!!!

NEWS ALERT

Biggles FM – Martin Apperly G6FSU chatting to Neil G4HUN on Biggles FM about the course that he runs about the fear of flying.The audio from this morning show can be heard   here

VHF NFD – A diary page has been created, follow our progress here.

Camb-Hams DX’Pedition ‘09 – What a great success!  Over 4000 QSO from the shack and many more from around the island or SOTA summits – details here 

CRG Rally - The Cambridgeshire Repeater Group held their annual rally on Sunday April 5th at Bottisham Village College, Bottisham. More info here.

ISS School Contact – On Friday, 6th February, pupils at Pilton Bluecoat Junior School, in Barnstaple, Devon, had a successful ARISS contact with the International Space Station.
The contact was direct between stations OR4ISS and G0NPV in Barnstaple. Camb-Ham member Gavin Nesbitt M1BXF managed to record all but the very beginning of this contact. Gavin’s 9-minute audio recording can be heard here (3.93Mb).

Another ISS School contact today with participants at Parkside Community College, Parkside, Cambridge, the audio file is here.

Mull Photos - Pictures from the Mull DX’pedition are now available here.

Trailer Mast! – The Camb-Hams have now gone mobile! Bob G1SAA bought a trailer mast which can get to a height of 10 meters – this should hopefully allow much more portable operation and is going with us to Mull! Pictures here.

CRG – The Cambridgeshire Repeater Group has a new page and URL. The site is still being worked on and your input is important to help it grow. The new URL is: http://www.cambridgerepeaters.net

EVENTS

Please visit the Events page for all (past and future) events.

  • VHF NFD 2009

The Camb-Hams are again entering the 2009 VHF NFD contest on July 4th from 14.00z till July 5th 14.00z. We have entered the unrestricted section on 5 bands (only 4 at any time) which are 6m, 4m, 2m, 70cm and 23cm meaning we can run high power and multiple antennas.  Like last time this is an event open to everyone but we do have ambitions to put on a ‘good show’ so we have done some planning which this page is part of so please have a read if you want to join us.

  • Pie and Pints

The Camb-Hams meet monthly for pie and pints, for the next meeting please check below or check here. There’s always a good chat and new faces so don’t miss out!

We hope to see you there, and don’t forget to bring something along to show us.. while we enjoy each others company we aren’t the most exciting lot to look at ;0) It would be nice to see some of your toys / gadgets / whatever.

The next Pie and Pint:  Wednesday 3rd March 2010  at 19:30

Future Pie and Pints can be found by CLICKING HERE.