Amateur Radio Society celebrates
50th anniversary in style

The Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society
was formed in 1960 and to celebrate the 50th anniversary a special callsign GB50RNARS is being aired by members of the Society throughout the year.

From the beginning of January, the call has been on air in various modes including CW, SSB, RTTY and data transmissions.

The bands used have been from 160 metres up to 23cms and up to now, over 1700 contacts have been made with stations as far away as VK.

During the whole of April, the callsign will be used from the Bridge Wireless Office of HMS Belfast.

The Belgian and Netherlands Naval Radio societies are also running special anniversary callsigns this year.
They include: ON50RN, PA50RNARS, PB50RNARS, PC50RNARS, PE50RNARS, PF50RNARS, PG50RNARS and PH50RNARS.

A special Anniversary award is available to listeners and licenced radio amateurs who hear or contact RNARS members and the specials event stations during 2010.
Full details can be found on the RNARS web site at: www.rnars.org.uk

An Anniversary dinner has been organised for 26th June at HMS Collingwood in Fareham. For bookings, please contact G3KOJ (QTHR) e-mail: penray93@tiscali.co.uk.

A Society get-together Week-End has also been organised in August at Coventry in the West Midlands. Tickets can be obtained from G4BEQ (QTHR) e-mail g4beq@tiscali.co.uk.

Membership of the RNARS is not a requirement to attend either of these social events.