Hastings Electronics and Radio Club - HERC
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About our club
G2LL G1HHH G6HH
HERC brings you amateur radio and electronics in the seaside town of Hastings and surrounding villages.
Please feel free to send an email for more information.
Skeds:
CW - Mondays 8pm 144.575Mhz - this may change so check in regularly to confirm.
2m - Every day at 10am on 144.575Mhz. If nothing heard check in to repeater GB3ES as this is now reliably operational and makes it easier for members to join the sked.
Club meet - check the 'Notice Board' calendar below.
If you are interested in finding out more about our club just come along to a Wednesday or Saturday afternoon meet. It's all very informal. We do a bit of radio operating then it's in the cafe for tea and cake.
We also hold twice weekly zoom nights - Tuesdays and Fridays at 7:30pm - members only. Zooms are for the free 40mins.
You are most welcome to join in on our on-air skeds, no membership required although members benefit from a monthly newsletter - Vital Spark, well worth the £10 a year membership.
If you'd like to join in on a zoom night to see what we get up to please send an email and we'll send you the login details.
Send an email to herc.hastings(at)gmail.com for more information. Note! Please put @ in the email address instead of (at).
HERC brings you amateur radio and electronics in the seaside town of Hastings and surrounding villages.
Please feel free to send an email for more information.
Skeds:
CW - Mondays 8pm 144.575Mhz - this may change so check in regularly to confirm.
2m - Every day at 10am on 144.575Mhz. If nothing heard check in to repeater GB3ES as this is now reliably operational and makes it easier for members to join the sked.
Club meet - check the 'Notice Board' calendar below.
If you are interested in finding out more about our club just come along to a Wednesday or Saturday afternoon meet. It's all very informal. We do a bit of radio operating then it's in the cafe for tea and cake.
We also hold twice weekly zoom nights - Tuesdays and Fridays at 7:30pm - members only. Zooms are for the free 40mins.
You are most welcome to join in on our on-air skeds, no membership required although members benefit from a monthly newsletter - Vital Spark, well worth the £10 a year membership.
If you'd like to join in on a zoom night to see what we get up to please send an email and we'll send you the login details.
Send an email to herc.hastings(at)gmail.com for more information. Note! Please put @ in the email address instead of (at).
Notice Board
Weekly meetings are at the venues as shown. Directions are below the calendar.
November
Wed. 29th - Bexhill Garden Centre
December
Wed. 6th - Bexhill Garden Centre
Sat. 16th - Hastings Country Park at Fairlight.
Wed. 20th - Bexhill Garden Centre
Sat. 30th - Hastings Country Park at Fairlight.
Bexhill Garden Centre. Head for Freshfields TN38 8FB then, immediately after turning into the road turn left into Lewis Avenue. It's a dead-end at the garden centre although Lewis Avenue continues as a footpath round to the big roundabout at Ravenside. Don't get confused! If open we'll be in the overflow carpark to the right at the end.
Hastings Country Park The carpark with the Bale House Cafe, Lower Coastguard Lane, at the top of Battery Hill. Postcode TN35 4AD.
Look out for the little yellow Fiat - reg. ending echo alpha alpha
1pm UTC start.
Will HERC members keep an eye out for any prospective new members please.
Remember to check this website before leaving your house as sometimes there is a last-minute problem and we have to change venue and or the day, or, if there is a catastrophe, cancel.
November
Wed. 29th - Bexhill Garden Centre
December
Wed. 6th - Bexhill Garden Centre
Sat. 16th - Hastings Country Park at Fairlight.
Wed. 20th - Bexhill Garden Centre
Sat. 30th - Hastings Country Park at Fairlight.
Bexhill Garden Centre. Head for Freshfields TN38 8FB then, immediately after turning into the road turn left into Lewis Avenue. It's a dead-end at the garden centre although Lewis Avenue continues as a footpath round to the big roundabout at Ravenside. Don't get confused! If open we'll be in the overflow carpark to the right at the end.
Hastings Country Park The carpark with the Bale House Cafe, Lower Coastguard Lane, at the top of Battery Hill. Postcode TN35 4AD.
Look out for the little yellow Fiat - reg. ending echo alpha alpha
1pm UTC start.
Will HERC members keep an eye out for any prospective new members please.
Remember to check this website before leaving your house as sometimes there is a last-minute problem and we have to change venue and or the day, or, if there is a catastrophe, cancel.
club history
The Hastings Radio Club was originally formed back in the 1920s and, apart from a couple of short breaks, has been around ever since.
Month on the Air
Phil G3MGQ prepares a monthly round-up of what's happening on the bands. Click on the link below to open Phil's latest document.
MOTA June 2023.pdf
MOTA July 2023.pdf
MOTA August 2023.pdf
MOTA September 2023.pdf
MOTA October 2023.pdf
MOTA November 2023.pdf
MOTA December 2023.pdf
MOTA June 2023.pdf
MOTA July 2023.pdf
MOTA August 2023.pdf
MOTA September 2023.pdf
MOTA October 2023.pdf
MOTA November 2023.pdf
MOTA December 2023.pdf
band conditions
For an up-to-date review on band conditions - courtesy Paul N0NBH - please click one of the link s below:
Portrait display - https://www.hamqsl.com/solarn0nbh.php?image=sdo_171
Landscape display - http://www.hamqsl.com/solar101pic.php
Portrait display - https://www.hamqsl.com/solarn0nbh.php?image=sdo_171
Landscape display - http://www.hamqsl.com/solar101pic.php
training videos
This section has information about training videos available on the internet.
Find a topic in which you are interested and click on the associated link.
SWR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmx1_-V1-o&ab_channel=DavidCasler
Logging - https://youtu.be/QAyfL9hIfiU
Find a topic in which you are interested and click on the associated link.
SWR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmx1_-V1-o&ab_channel=DavidCasler
Logging - https://youtu.be/QAyfL9hIfiU