Welcome to the Farnborough & District Radio Society

The Farnborough & District Radio Society (FDRS) is a club for Radio Amateurs and Short Wave Listeners in and around Farnborough, Hampshire. If you have an interest in amateur radio we would be delighted to see you at our club, which meets at 7:30 for 8:00pm every 2nd and 4th Wednesday in the month. Meetings take place in the Boyce Building at the Aldershot Military Museum Queens Avenue, Aldershot, GU11 2LG unless otherwise stated. The Museum is managed by the Hampshire Cultural Trust. Map
In addition Member's Zoom meetings are held on those Wednesdays when there is no club meeting

Upcoming Meetings & Events

5-7 Sept Event: SSB Field Day. Contest starts 1300UTC (2pm clock time) on 6 September and ends 1300 UTC on 7 and Self Sufficient BBQ/picnic. Both cancelled. Our site is being used for filming and no suitable alternative has been located
10 Sept Construction Contest
24 Sept Simple Harmonic Motion. Bill G8SUJ

The Boyce Building where we normally hold our meetings

Donkey Derby 2025
Live demonstrations included Satellite communications using the Oscar 100 Satellite
Morse code training for the children
Short wave VHF and UHF amateur radio communication and the use of Military radios
Thanks to all those who helped to make the event so successful

At a meeting

Club Nets. We run 3 nets every week
Friday 2m net 144.675MHz FM 8pm (clocktime) Controller uses call G4FRS
Monday Top band net 1.995Mhz LSB 8pm (clocktime) Controller uses call G2DX
Sunday GB3FN 70cms repeater net 8pm (clocktime) Controller uses call G2DX

AGM Highlights (27/11/2024)
Low Subscription rate to continue for further year
Existing committee returned unopposed
Future programme outlined
Club Trophies awarded (Pictures below)

The construction contest winner Martin M0MXR receiving his trophy for building an innovative software based receiver

The spirit of amateur radio award winner Alex G8YKM receiving his trophy for restoring a historic Vibroplex bug key

Great Club visit to Bletchley Park
We saw lots of interesting exhibits including an 'Enigma' demonstration of message decoding. Thanks Brian G1FNS for organising the visit

Farnborough & District Radio Society Donkey Derby Stand 
Thanks and congratulation to everyone who supported our Donkey Derby stand. Many children had a go at Morse. There was lots of interest in our Microwave Satellite communications station and our HF and VHF stations.

More from the Donkey Derby

Farnborough & District Radio Society wins NFD RSGB Cup
FDRS won the Low Power Single Operator NFD award (again!). The operator was M0URL transmitting from our HF Field Day site.
Peter M0URL had 412 QSOs and gained 103,086 points. The cup was awarded to Peter by  RSGB President Stewart Bryant, G3YSX (photo above).
Congratulations to Peter and to all those who organised our entry.

A recent meeting “QO-100, Activating G2DX through the satellite”.
Contacts were made with stations in Greenland, Qatar and many stations in Europe.

The 2022 NFD RSGB Cup
The RSGB Low Power Single Operator 2022 NFD award displayed at the AGM