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Long before the age of the Internet, the club had a newsletter called “RAGCHEW”. In 2012, the late Brian Millard (M6BRI) resurrected this publication. He edited and published it until his untimely death in early 2016 when control passed to G4CIB.

These documents are "pdf" files.

Edited by the G4CIB

2020

From the editor
Contest Update
New Activity 6-7 June
Have you tried SDR radio yet?
Where to listen to all kinds of stuff
Mr Bunnell's Triumph Part 3
History in a Shoe Box
Radio Spectrum: 300KHz - 3MHz
GB1VED
Legendary stories about working at GKA (Portishead) Part 2
G4CIB/P on the 2m "Virtual Coffee Morning" Net

From the editor
Contest Update
RF Notes
Radio Spectrum: 30KHz - 300KHz
>Mr Bunnell's Triumph Part 2
Legendary stories about working at GKA (Portishead)
Arduino Uno DIP V3 Starter Kit
Net Topics
Building the Ubitx V6 multi band QRP transceiver Part 2
From the Archives

From the editor
May Ragcrew
Radio 4 - again!
Contest Roundup
Building the Ubitx V6 multi band QRP transceiver
Mr Bunnell's Triumph
UKEICC Contesting
Radio Grimeton and building a VLF Converter (part 2)
Radio Spectrum: 3KHz - 30KHz
RSGB Training Manuals
G4CIB and G4RHK on Lundy

From the editor
Flying Visit to Lundy
Contest Round-Up
Radio Grimeton and building a VLF Converter (part 1)
RF Notes
Radio Spectrum: 300Hz - 3KHz
From the Archives: NFD Entrants 1948
From the Archives: Snippets from 1948 Bulletins
Net Topics
Book Review: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything
From the Archives

From the editor
RF Notes
Net Etiquette
Contest Round-Up
From the Archives

2019

From the editor
Contest Update
Stan G4YYR - From the Archives
RF Notes
RadCom Plus
Before Amateur Radio
GARES on Facebook
The Bands Explained: 19m, 16m and 15m
Morse Practice on the Air
G4CIB/P and G4RHK/P on Lundy

From the editor
Nick Perkins - G3MA
Contest Update
Cricket World Cup Amateur Radio Marathon Activity - GB19EB
G2HX/P - Low Power Field day
GB4RSE - Special Event Station
80m Club Championship
Resurrection of a Classic
Now it can be told
The Bands Explained: 31m, 25m and 20m
Minutes of the Meeting held at “The Lamb” Inn, Kings Square on 20th October 1966
From the Archives

Summer Special 2019

From the editor
Bank Holiday Operating on Crickley Hill
A Crickley Hill Selection
And Finally...

From the editor
Contest Update
The Future of Radio Clubs
From the Archives
Semaphore and Morse Signs
POW Radios Part 3
NFD 2019
50MHz Test (UKSMG)
Thinking Day on the Air
Construction Contest

From the editor
RSGB AGM Birmingham
Gloucester Repeater Group AGM
POW Radios Part 2
Contest Roundup
From the Archives
A Marconi Mystery Key
The Bands Explained (80m and 60m)
Spring is Sprung (/P operating)
From the Archives

From the editor
A Flying Visit to Lundy
POW Radios
Is This a Stream key
A Selection of Photos
Homeward Bound From Lundy

From the editor
New Year - New Challenges
A New 2m Beacon
Heathkit Becoming Collectable
Development of a CI-V (Remote) Interface for the Icom IC-7300
Christmas Holiday Operating
Archive Photos

2018

From the editor
Christmas & New Year Holiday Tasks
Contest update
RF Notes
Calling all ships
A comment about RF Notes
Portable station for the winter challenge
Marconi Kestrel radio

From the editor
Contest Round-Up
Antenna Workshops
IC703 vs FT817
A Rare (and Valuable!) Telegraph Key
A windy day at the Priory
And a Chilly Day at Crickley!
G4CIB and G4RHK on Lundy
A Lundy Improvisation
RF Notes

From the editor
Contest Round-Up
Antenna Workshops
Summer Picnic
RF Notes
British Inland Waterways on the Air - GB4RSE
A selection of photos submitted by members

July/August 2018

From the editor
New Members
RSGB Training and Log Books
Errors, Corrections and Ommissions
Contest Round Up
RF Notes
G2HX/P - NFD 2018
6m QSO with USA
Construction Contest

From the editor
G4CIB and G4RHK in Lundy
RSGB AGM - Birmingham
Intermediate Training outdoors
Portable on the Exe Estuary
Contest Round Up
RF Notes
Portable Operation on Crickley Hill

From the editor
GARES Spring Challenge
RSGB AGM
RF Notes
My entry in the Spring Challenge
Amateur Radio Insights
From the GARES Archives

From the editor
Contest Roundup
From the GARES archives
RF Notes
2m/70cm Antenna
Lundy to Scilly Isles QSO attempt
Here's one I made earlier
From the RSGB and GARES archives

From the editor
Contest Roundup
A 4m/6m Multiband Dipole
GB4QBP Quedegley Brownie Pack 2018
Here's one I made earlier
Club visit to BBC Droitwich Transmitter - 1983
RF Notes
March 1970 144MHz Contest

From the editor
January AFS 80m-40m
January UKAC
An introduction to using Amateur Satellites
How to Become a Cool Grandad
Listening Through Oscar 6 in 1972
RF Notes
New Aerials for 6 thru 70

January 2018 (Contest Edition)

From the editor
January 144MHz UKAC
80m (3.5 MHz) Club Championship
AFS (Affiliated Societies) 3.5-7MHz CW & SSB
AFS (Affiliated Societies) Super League 2016-17
Overall UKAC
50MHz UKAC
70MHz UKAC
144MHz UKAC
432MHz UKAC
2017 UKAC Comments
Practical Wireless 70MHz Contest
Hints for Hams
Christmas Crossword Answers
VHF Championship
Low Power Contest (80m, 40m and 20m)

2017

From the editor
Congratulations
Hints for Hams
Any Mac users out there?
Christmas Crossword
RF Notes
An Interesting Trip to the Isle of wight
A Small World
Should I sign /P or /M?
I Saw The Light - A Jackanory with a Happy Ending

Autumn 2017 (October and November)

From the editor
Contest Roundup
RF Notes
Metrovna VNA Pro Touch Antenna Analyser review
Practical Wireless 4 Metre Contest
Should I sign /P or /M?
QSO Workshop
G4CIB and G4RHK on Lundy
70cm Contact Attempt: Scilly to Lundy
Caption Competition

From the editor
GB4GHF - Saturday 2nd September
RF Notes
A Simple Dipole for 2 Metres
Low Power Field Day 2017
Crickley August Bank Holiday 2017
A New Club Initiative - Training Workshops

Summer 2017 (June, July and August)

From the editor
GB4GLM - Saturday 17th June
GB4GHF - Saturday 2nd September
RF Notes
Tony Kingscote (BRS479)
From the GARES Archive
ICOM CI-V Interface project overview
More from the GARES Archive

From the editor
Contest Roundup
Coming up: Informal meeting and special event stations
Bits for Homebrew VHF/UHF Antennas
Operating GB0WMD at Alum Bay on Saturday 25th April 2017
From the Archive: May 1987 Newsletter
AMSAT-UK
RF Notes
Photos from the Archives
Digital Speech using ‘Continuous 4 level FM’ (C4FM)
Celebrating 20 Years in GARES

From the editor
RSGB Study Books
The Radio Amateur Old Timers’ Association (RAOTA)
Contesting (by a beginner)
RF Notes
from the Archives

From the editor
The UK Six Metre Group
RF Notes
Lundy Island
Interference on 2 Metres
And Finally

From the editor
The GQRP Club
Contest gossip
You're S0 here OM
From the G8CIB and G4CIB QSL Archives
The scanning years
The club DF scene

From the editor
2016 Contest roundup
An Interesting QSL Card
From the GARES Archives
A Day on the Mountain 1978
The BBC Micro:Bit
G4CIB/P Operating on Boxing Day

2016

From the editor
An initiative worth supporting
Contest gossip
A short history of my way into Amateur Radio
Time to check those batteries
From the archives
The Lundy "Old Light" award
GARES members enjoying the Christmas meal

From the editor
Contest gossip
Operating QRP from IM97kp
More photographs from the GARES archive

From the editor
Contest gossip
The Top band Cycling Club
G3SGS
How I got into Amateur Radio
From the archives

UKAC Special Edition

GARES - UKAC update

From the editor
How I became interested in Radio
Spring challenge
Operating on Lundy
Cheap and cheerful Moxon loop for 70cm
From The contest archives

From the editor (G2HX)
Contest gossip
Construction competition 2016
28-70 MHz transverter kit from transverters store
More NFD photos (1980)

10m and 6m Special Edition

Simple sixer antenna

Use it or lose it!
Contest gossip
My DAB domestic radio experience
QRP Operating - part 2

Brian Millard (M6BRI)
Pauline Clayton (G8MZV)
Tuesday night is UKAC on VHF/UHF/SHF Bands
Club championship contest happenings
Computer logging software
QRP Operating
Ragchew - the future

Edited by the late M6BRI

2015

Holiday Operating in EI - Then 1982 and Now 2014
Monuments to Guglielmo Marconi - a quick quiz

2 Metres – Then and Now
A New Year Resolution
Some jokes from the crackers

Giving a Few Points Away Can Be Fun
Portable Operating in the clouds

G4CIB and G4RHK on Lundy
More Welsh David's
Simple Cable Tidy
RSGB Low Power CW contest G4AYM/P 'Field Day'

Another June 2015

Extract from Ragchew June 1985
Visit to Severn Area Rescue Association

Youngest GARES Member
Nicknames in South Wales
Camera Batteries

2014

GB4GC
The Year We Had a Lot of Fun – 1973 (Part 1)

Crickly Hill Country Park Meeting
Further 1970s 2 Metre Contest Reminiscences
History in a Shoebox

2013

The night before Christmas
This takes the biscuit
Ofcom policy review

An Inverted Delta Loop for 6 Metres
Electronic Love
Times Past - In Celebration 1858

Who was Hans Beggerow?
A Quick, Cheap and Easy Desk Microphone Project

Who Was Loren Windom?
G0ULH Verticals
Hve u hrd?

2012

An Amateur working in Antarctica
Military Wireless Museum
Heard on the air
Dxpedition to Black Rock
A tale to tell
JOTA Station GX4AYM at Wotton-under-Edge

G2BI Aerial
Heard on the air
Watts in a name

Olympic Torch
The Radio Ham (poem)
1988 RAE
Heard on the air

Unknown Editor

1999

GARES wins Frank Hoosen Trophy
1999 Club calls contest
Thanks from Margaret
The AGM
What goes on at Barrow Wake?
The DF Hunt
From the fox's point of view
Dates for your diary

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