'GB200IKB' - The Brunel 200 Call-Sign

As part of the Brunel 200 celebrations, Saltash and District Amateur Radio Club (SADARC) will operate a special events radio station from the Maurice Huggins Tea Rooms in Victoria Park at the top of Saltash Fore
Street.  The station has been allocated a special call-sign for this event 'GB200IKB' to reflect the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and will operate over the weekend of 8th and 9th of April. Every contact will receive a commemorative post card, in radio jargon a QSL card, depicting the bridge when floodlit. 

Amateur Radio as a hobby started at the same time as those early pioneers of radio such as Guglielmo Marconi and Henry Jackson; the latter carrying out his experiments at Wearde Quay in Saltash.  Modern day radio amateurs still experiment with and build radio equipment, but are just as happy chatting to friends across town or across the world. The methods radio amateurs use to communicate don't stop at just using a microphone or a morse key, but can also include colour television,  data transmission (using home computers), linking their radios to the internet and communicating via satellite plus much more. Several amateur satellites are currently in orbit. Becoming a radio amateur has never been easier and further details can be found at the web site of the national society, the Radio Society of Great Britain here: http://www.rsgb.org

SADARC meets twice a month at the TOC H Hall, Warraton Road in Saltash and all are welcome.  Details of the meetings can be found here: http://www.sadarc.co.uk