Eagle Radio Group

09/04/2021

9th April 2021. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. RIP.
Mablethorpe Visit..

02/11/2020

November 2020. The Humber Coastal Radio Station building looks in a bad state now...! Shame.

04/04/2020

25/03/2019

March 2019. I've been informed that Jim G0EJQ is SILENT KEY. RIP Jim.

30/04/2018

30th April 2018. The Radio Station at Trusthorpe has been tidyed up. Looks much better now.

21/12/2017

Silent Key. Alan (G6CPZ) of Kirton Boston.

11/11/2017

11th November 2017. The old Humber Radio Station building, sitting pretty in the November Sun!!

06/11/2017

Some of the aerials at Humber Radio in 1935.

17/10/2017

2E0GBH. Malcolm Brinnen (Mablethorpe) Silent Key, 16th October 2017, in Grimsby Hospital, after a long struggle with COPD. Will be missed by everyone.

06/09/2017

6th September 2017. The Circus has now left the Humber Radio site.

04/07/2017

Reference Friskney & East Lincolnshire Communication Club.

It is with regret that I announce as from Tuesday 4th July there will be no further meetings at the village hall or otherwise due to diminished support.
The club will remain in name both on air and via the website. If the current climate changes and support is once again looking promising then club meetings at the village hall or village pub will be re introduced, in the mean time the club ,will or what there is of it, will be run from my home address and anyone wishing to socialise in the club sense may do on the first and third Tuesday of every month as from September 2017 and with fully operational equipment while in a comfortable static caravan revamped for operational use which is something we have not been able to achieve previously, thus the club call sign will also remain operational.

Thank you to everyone that has supported the club while it has been run from Friskney Village Hall over the years.
Regards
Bren
2E0BDS

30/06/2017

NOTICE PUT OUT ON THE INTERNET ON THURSDAY 29 JUNE 2017:

Philip Bagshaw, G3NEO, of Todwick now Silent Key ...

I received some very sad news a couple of hours ago ... Philip, G3NEO passed away at the age of 95 in Rotherham Hospital at 3.30pm Thursday (yesterday). I'd known Philip since I was a young SWL in 1958. We were very good friends ever since. He was found collapsed in his house a few days ago and was whisked off to hospital. He made a slight recovery but deteriorated in the past day or two.
The funeral will probably be at Todwick church/cemetery, near Sheffield, some time shortly after 10th July. I have Ray, G4AGE, collecting info for me.

Those who knew Phil personally will surely agree with me that he was really kind and gentle person, a true gentleman in fact. I never saw him lose his temper or even be angry! I have much to thank him for as he was my amateur radio mentor when I was a short wave listener in the late 1950s. It was he and Ron, G8KB, who pushed me into getting my transmitting licence in 1961 and thereby changed my whole life for ever!

Philip was a keen experimenter and was noted for making bits of wire work all over the world on the HF bands. In his younger days he was a keen Field Day contester, in the days when HF field day was all CW and when computers were not even thought of.

Philip never married and ended up having to care for his elderly mother. He would have made a lovely father, I'm sure, but he told me he "left it too late".

He had a sister who became a headmistress who lived in Dumbleton, near Cheltenham. He used to go down to stay with her for holidays and take an HF radio with him and a piece of wire he called the 'Dumbleton Dipole' ! I worked him dozens of times when he was using it.

He tried lots of different bands with his wire antennas, working New Zealand on 160 metres with a 270 foot dipole and just 7 watts. He also often worked the VHF/UHF bands from 50MHz to 1296MHz and I had the pleasure of working him over a distance of 100km on 10GHz ssb when he used just 300 milliwatts to an 18 inch diameter dish. I think his best DX with that little G3JVL transverter was 200km.

He was a highly respected member of the Sheffield Amateur Radio Club in the 1950s through to the late 60s but then moved over to the Bolsover Club where he became a good friend of Ray, G4AGE, a friendship that lasted until Philip passed away just a short time ago.

In later years, as old age took its toll, he had to give up driving and I saw little of him apart from his annual visit to the Finningley Microwave Round Table meeting in July. That was where I met him last, about three years ago.

He sometimes used the phonetics "George Three Never Ever On" when speaking to old friends !

Goodbye Philip old pal ... rest in peace.

Peter, G3PHO