Gallery

Club Chair Richard G4HGI presided over the awards.

The BWC HF Trophy was presented (via video link) to Chris GM4HYG, who helped to run our 40m nets from his new home in Elgin.

The third-time winner of the G3EGC Memorial Award was  Dave G4JLG, who operated from Winter Hill (in the dark) for the SHF Tuesday-night events.

The M3RNX Memorial Shield was presented to Steve G4AQB, who impressed us with his range of projects developed using an Arduino Nano.

Another award was the Construction & Renovation Cup, which was won by Steve 2E1HME, for his restoration of a 70cm 12-ele ZL Special antenna and getting an old Icom 260E back on air

The winner of the BWC VHF Trophy was John G4NTY, once again our overall top scorer across the UKAC events throughout the year.

Club members operated the Special Event call GB4BCW from the former ROC post at Brindle (on the Western side of Winter Hill) in July and October 2024 (these pictures are from the July session). 

We set up an inverted-V doublet for HF and a 2x half-wave colinear for 2m.

The VHF station (and catering) was above ground.

Richard G4HGI and Stephen M0KSE operating on 2m.

Meanwhile, those with "a head for depths" ventured underground...

... where they found the recently restored Royal Observer Corps post.

Mike G4WYZ was one of the team who had restored the site.

And Mark M0UFC had organised the doublet antenna and feed.

Steve M7HME and Alan M7RFS operating and logging on 40m.

Club members operated Special Event Station GB1TT from Turton Tower, for International Museums Weekend in June 2024.

The activation team included Mark M0UFC, Chris G4HYG, Gary M0MHW, Steve M7HME, Jack G8HIK, Richard G4HGI and Chris G4ADN.
Thanks to Karen and the staff at the Tower for making us so welcome.

Publicity materials were on display for visitors to the Museum.

Local contacts were made on 2m FM,

and further afield on HF.

All contacts were logged and will receive our commemorative QSLs.

This map shows where our signals reached.

Jack G8HIK has produced a video of the event.

The 17th Bolton Scouts visited us in May 2024, to try out some real-world communications activities.

The Scouts practised using the Morse Code with Richard G4HGI, after Bill G4CFP had helped them to build a key and oscillator circuit.

Steve G4AQB demonstrated tuning in signals on radio receivers,

whilst Gary M0MHW showed how to use an online SDR receiver to receive and log stations too.

Alan M7RFS and Stephen M0KSE explained the use of "Q-codes" and Callsigns,

The BWC HF Trophy was presented to Tom M7MCQ, for great effort with the “Back Pack” and working HF on low power.

All the awards were presented by Club Chair Richard G4HGI.

The winner of the G3EGC Award was  Dave G4JLG, for once again for activating Winter Hill on the SHF UKAC events.

The M3OTT Memorial Shield was presented to Alan M7RFS, in recognition of his impressive dedication to learning Morse.

Another award was the Construction & Renovation Cup, which was won by Stephen M0KSE, for taking on the total restoration of a Clark “SCAM” mast, obtained from Bob G8DTF

The 2024 winner of the BWC VHF Trophy was John G4NTY, our overall top scorer in the year's UKAC events.

The BWC HF Trophy was presented to Chris G4HYG, for his HF Antenna projects (including  NVIS) , activity over the years at our events at Smithills and also operating the G6ZZ transatlantic station in Dec 2022.

All the awards were presented by Club Chair Richard G4HGI.

The first winner of the new G3EGC Award was Dave G4JLG, for his SHF exploits on Winter Hill throughout the year, often in awful conditions.

The M3OTT Memorial Shield was presented to Stephen M0KSE as our best newcomer in the UK Activity events and home construction of VHF antennas.

Another new award for 2023 was the Construction & Renovation Cup, which was won by Steve G4AQB for his outstanding skills in design, construction and restoration: his "Repair Shop" on restoration of old equipment and "pie-dish" antenna for 9cm.

The 2023 winner of the BWC VHF Trophy was John G4NTY, our overall top scorer in the year's UKAC events.

The newly-established M3RNX Memorial Shield went to Jason M0WJG for his work on digital modes such as JS8CALL, WSJT, WSPR and building magnetic loop antennas.

Among the attractions was a microwave antenna-testing range,  built and operated by Ross G6GVI

Testing the "pie-dish" 3.4GHz dual biquad antenna by Steve G4AQB

An RFExplorer Signal Generator acts as the source

In July 2022, Mike G4WYZ invited Club members for a tour of the Royal Observer Corps observation post near Chorley. This site is being restored by a team of volunteers.

A real "antenna farm" of HF aerials!

Chris G4HYG operating on digimodes

Tim M6SEC (lt) receives the BWC VHF/UHF Trophy for joining in the Club's microwave activities in 2017. 

Alfred M3RNX (lt) receives the BWC HF Trophy for regular appearances on the 160m net. Presented by Chairman Glenn G6HFF in 2017

Gary 2E0GXC (rt) is presented with the M3OTT Memorial Shield by Chairman Dave G4JLG in 2018