Links

really useful sites

• BeaconSpot (Microwave and VHF/UHF beacons)

club members’ sites, other nearby clubs, and general

• Ridgeway Repeater Group
  Management group for GB3WH, GB3TD, GB7NW and MB7UR.
• Team Thunderbox
  M0OTM, M0KGV, M0OZD & Terry.
• TDARC
  Trowbridge & District Amateur Radio Club
• CDARC
  Chippenham & District Amateur Radio Club
• AC6V
  If you can’t find a link here it probably doesn’t exist!
• GM3SEK
  Very useful pages from the writer of Radcom’s ‘In Practice’ pages. Co-author of ‘The VHF/UHF DX Book’. Sadly no longer in print (why?) – get hold of a copy if you can. The best book I have ever read for VHF/UHF.

components & hardware

• Wires.co.uk
  Great source for all sorts of copper/silver/gold(!) wire at reasonable prices.
• JABDOG
  Run by Peter G7JAB. Excellent service, good range.
• Sycom
  Run by Robin Sykes, G3NFV
• Bowood Electronics
  Lots of stuff from Bakewell
• Quartslab
  Crystals
• W.H Westlake Electronics
  Run by Henry Westlake, G8MWW
• G H Engineering
  Some difficult to obtain components here
• Barend Hendriksen
  You’ll find it in the Netherlands….
• Moonraker UK Ltd
  Antennae from a British company.
• Waters & Stanton PLC
• ICOM UK
• Datasheet archive
  Fantastic resource for component datasheets
• Yaesu UK
• Riedon
  Locate hard to find electronic components like surge protected resistors and resistance temperature detectors at Riedon.