really useful sites
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.