The story so far

The Club was founded on the 14th of October 1980 with an inaugural meeting held at the Red Cross Hall Glen Street Stranraer. The founder members were John Bray GM6FPD, Jim Hopkins GM4LPT, Neil Macdonald GM4LQS and Gerry Maxwell GM4BAE. Attendance was disappointingly low, but reading from the minutes of the meeting it appears a basis for the club was formed, a venue was also agreed on and a date for the next meeting.

Since then the club has gone through the usual ups and downs and at present has a membership of around forty with ages ranging from about eleven to seventy something. We are twinned with "http://www.welcome.to/bdars" The Bangor and District Amateur Radio Clubin Northern Ireland and the two clubs meet as often as possible. These meetings are either at the clubs premises or at rallys here in Scotland or in Ireland.

Members come from all over the region, with some travelling in excess of one hundred and twenty miles every week. One member travels from Washington DC USA about 3 or 4 times a year and gives excellent support to all our activities, some are regular holiday makers and although they live outside the area still attend club nights when they are on holiday here. We meet every Thursday evening from 19.00hrs to 22.00hrs, We operate on all HF bands plus VHF,UHF, We now run Foundation Licence courses on a bi monthly basis along with Intermediate and Full Licence classes usually starting in October.

We enjoy taking part in the various special event stations, especially the Lighthouse Weekend. We have worked from the Corsewell Point light near Stranraer but I think the favourite lighthouse is the Mull of Galloway.