How we started
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 eighty something. We are twinned with The Bangor and District Amateur Radio Society in 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. Some are 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 also have PSK 31 running regularly. We now run Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced Licence courses on a regular basis.