Here are our Club Events. You may select to see future, past and all events. Visitors and guests are welcome at most events – contact us to let us know when to welcome you.

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Club Meeting (Here’s One I Made Earlier… 🔨)

Club Meeting (Here’s One I Made Earlier… 🔨)

Proximity of the event to today“Here’s one I made earlier…” 🔨 🗓️ Meeting Room FP4, 1900hrs start. A ‘show and tell’ evening for club members, guests and visitors to display and/or demonstrate/talk about equipment they’ve made themselves (homebrew), share proud constructions, and amazing kit builds… Have you built something that was better, cheaper, faster than the commercial alternative or something…More…

Spring Field Weekend 2025

Spring Field Weekend 2025

Proximity of the event to today⚠️UPDATE: The Friday (25th April) Field Day/Evening part of the weekend is cancelled. The Friday evening’s Show ‘n Tell Club Meeting is still going ahead. Our Spring Field Weekend will now be only Saturday and Sunday. Looks like we’ll have wonderful weather, though! Joint HF and VHF operation on the fort ramparts, all modes. Come…More…

Bramble Net (GB3IW / 70cm)

Bramble Net (GB3IW / 70cm)

Proximity of the event to todayTuesday Night Bramble Net on GB3IW (1930 local time). The Bramble Net (alternatively “Bramblenet” or “Bramble Bank Net”) is a joint amateur radio club open net, held weekly on the Isle of Wight based GB3IW repeater, operated in a collaboration between the Isle of Wight Radio Society (https://iowrs.org/) and Fort Purbrook Amateur Radio Club. All…More…

FPARC Club Net (GB3SH / 2m)

FPARC Club Net (GB3SH / 2m)

Proximity of the event to today2m Open Club Net – GB3SH. Come join us in our weekly 2m open net (usually held on the Southampton repeater GB3SH). All licenced amateur radio operators are welcome, as are Shortwave Listeners. NOTE: if QRM from local repeaters is making contacts difficult, we’ll QSY to a different repeater or simplex frequency (frequency details are…More…

Marconi Net (GB3IW 🇬🇧 to WG6OTA 🇺🇸)

Marconi Net (GB3IW 🇬🇧 to WG6OTA 🇺🇸)

On the second Saturday of each month, at 19:00 UTC (aka 8:00pm BST during summer) the Isle of Wight Radio Society and GOTAhams sponsor the Marconi Net. The Marconi Net is a transatlantic repeater-to-repeater linkup (via the Internet) between the amateur radio repeaters: GB3IW (Isle of Wight 🇬🇧) and WG6OTA (Sunset Ridge, California 🇺🇸). The…More…