Category: News
Armistice day 2025
Members of Emerg were grateful to have the opportunity to honor and remember both the members of 460 Squadron RAAF and all those that fell during the war. As well as laying a number of wreathes the group put on a special event station, making 115 contacts with the help of George (the base cat) and John our caterer and Florist. more...
Beckingham Rally September 2025
The club was delighted to welcome so many visitors to our recent rally! A special thanks to the traders who helped to make the day such a success. We’re looking forward to our next rally which will be held on 16th May 2026. more...
Three go to Bleaklow Summit
Again as seen in the gallery that group members have a life outside of Radio, Andrew M0OOO, Shannon M3ZSW and our club mascot Hopper spent the day on the Derbyshire high peaks at Bleaklow Summit at some 2,000 feet above sea level and just south of the A628 Woodhead Pass. Access is not difficult but some preparation and experience is required if like these three you want to visit the crash site of the USAF Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44–61999, of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron at Higher Shelf Stones. As Wikipedia puts it “Much of the main plateau of Bleaklow is a boggy peat moorland, seamed by ‘groughs’ (pronounced ‘gruffs’, water-eroded channels in the peat) and lacking strong changes in elevation – in poor conditions its traverse is probably the most navigationally challenging in the Peak District.” more...
Beckingham RALLY
We’re looking forward to seeing traders and visitors at our rally in a few days time at Beckingham Village Hall, Beckingham, near Gainsborough! The following exhibitors (listed in alphabetical order) have indicated in advance that they will be present:
- Alan Clegg
- Chris and Kim Woodward
- Dave Longstaff
- Ian Whittaker
- ITregeneration
- Ludatronics
- MA Components
- Mickey’s Electronics
- Peter Johnson
- Phil Johnson
- Richard Crossley
- Len Thompson
- TK Electronics
SAQ transmission marking 100th anniversary of inauguration
Members of the group have interests beyond amateur radio, one of these being the amazing electro-mechanical Alexanderson transmitter SAQ, located at Grimeton near Varberg in Sweden. Maintained and operated occasionally by members of the Alexander Association, the transmitter made 2 scheduled Morse code transmissions on 2nd July, celebrating 100 years exactly since its inauguration by the then King of Sweden, Gustav V. SAQ is very easy to receive here with a simple E-field probe connected directly to an audio pre-amp, whose output is then connected to a PC external soundcard, with the digital signal then being processed by the very capable software program SAQrx, written by Johan Bodin, SM6LKM. You can see pictures of the antenna (concept by Ann, G1PRM using “junk box” items; expert carpentry and assembly by Phil, G8KLC) and a screenshot from SAQrx during the SAQ transmission in our gallery. more...
12 Squadron moving from RAF Wickenby to RAF Binbrook 1945
The 460 Squadron RAAF Website describes events at Binbrook following VJ day as follows: “Most of you would be aware that following the end of hostilities in Europe, the Squadron moved on the East Kirkby for “Tiger Force” training. Perhaps what we did not know was that 12 Squadron moved to Binbrook in September 1945 (from RAF Station Wickenby), The Editor of the Wickenby Register Newsletter had the following to say about the transfer: Binbrook - 1945 After saying appropriate good-byes to Wickenby we flew in formation to Binbrook on a beautiful September day - a shakedown trip for the new No. 12 Squadron on its first post war peacetime stint, Nine Lancs, a new C/O. (Wing. Cdr. Stafford Pollein Coulson, DSO, DFC) and a new Flight Commander (Sqdn. Ldr. ‘Paddy’ Flynn). The Station was deserted and empty except for an enormous amount of junk left behind by No. 460 Squadron - bikes by the dozen, old cars on every corner. Dustbins full of uniforms and silent radios on every shelf and window ledge. Needless to say, quite a lot of it was successfully salvaged. But there was something else. Not exactly a ghostly feeling but certainly a noticeable tension, as if the operational tradition of the place, established with such valour and at such cost by the Australians, was tangibly at odds with we ‘invaders’. In due course we explored this grand and lordly place. Behind the Mess (and built onto it with considerable skill) was the ‘Village Inn’. The interior of this ‘encroachment’, as the Clerk of Works called it, was beautifully done out in brickwork and old oak timbers with oak furniture to suit. It had a magnificent oak bar opposite which was a fireplace fit to grade any Tudor mansion. Poignant to recall now, in pride of place in the corner of the bar stood a splendid oak chair into the back of which was carved the name of Group Captain Hughie Edwards, V.C. In the Control Tower the Aussies had left another legacy. The walls of the Flying Control room had been done out in a pale blue colour. The rear and side walls bore a frieze of roman lettering about eight inches high in gold - again expertly done.” more...
Beckingham RALLY
Following the successful rally yesterday, members of EMERG have unanimously agreed to continue to build on previous years events and hold our second rally this year. If you missed the event then “RFMAN RFMAN” has produced a You Tube video of most of it EMERG are pleased to announce that the next East Midlands Ham and Electronics Rally will be held on Saturday the 20th September 2025, again at the Beckingham Village Hall (DN10 4FX). more...
Group News
Things are really getting under way.
RSGB
our application for membership to the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and been granted with the membership number RS600058 issued.
Thanks to the group secretary for all her efforts.
Ofcom
Our request to Ofcom for the Amateur Call M0VBK has been agreed and the licence issued to the club. The significance of the call letters is that our main operation location is the old RAF BinBrook base which had the RAF call sign “BK” so it was thought appropriate to continue the tradition.
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Beckingham RALLY May 2025
Following discusions with those involoved it has been agreed that the East Midlands Electronics and Radio Group would continue to organise and support the East Midlands Ham and Electronics Rally on Saturday the 24th May at the Beckingham village hall (DN10 4FX). more...
Web Site and Server
Welcome to the DRAFT East Midlands Electronics and Radio Group (EMERG) web site. The information on this site is current at time of posting as they say but the platform will change probably onto a wordpress site. more...