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Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society

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Membership of The Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society (RSARS) is open to anyone interested in amateur radio and who has completed service with the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom
or certain other countries or is currently serving.


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SITE UPDATED Wednesday 14th May 2008

CURRENT MONTH'S UPDATES TO THIS WEBSITE

INDEX TO MAIN PAGES

  • The COUNCIL and OFFICERS of the Society with mailing addresses - to email them individually go to EasyMail.

  • Details of our ACTIVITIES and MEMBERSHIP. including details of the Society's Journal "MERCURY", a Membership Application form to download and the Society's History.

  • INFORMATION, NEWS and LINKS - the place where you will find the most up-to-date news from the Society (including on the 1st of every month the list of New Members and Silent Keys) and links to many other interesting military- and amateur radio-oriented sites.
    There are details of Rallies and Shows the Society has attended and the Rally Calendar with information as to where we shall be standing at future events.
    This page also includes an on-site link to a Membership Application form for you to download and print immediately for submitting to the Membership Secretary.

  • RSARS SPECIAL EVENTS and MEMBERS' ACTIVITY LISTING giving up-to-date details on a one-stop page to enhance, encourage and facilitate participation in the Society's Awards Scheme.

  • A worded description of the regular amateur RADIO NETS held by the Society: this page has its own subsidiary links to the two separate detailed tables of Nets (listed on a daily basis Monday-Friday and Weekends) and the preferred CALLING FREQUENCIES used by Members.

  • The Society's Members' SHACK AID comprises a schedule of the RSARS nominated calling frequencies, a full table of the RSARS Nets (including date, time, frequency, mode, control station etc., and the UK/Overseas (except VK/ZL) Stores Price List and the VK/ZL Stores Price list.

  • SOCIETY STORES: full lists of Stores available to Members:
    (A) The UK/OVERSEAS STORES PRICE LIST which shows the UK and Overseas prices and postage and packing details and
    (B) The VK/ZL STORES LIST which repeats the details of all items on offer but shows the prices for that area in Australian Dollars.
    • The Society's STORES MANAGER is Mike, GØSWY and he can be e-mailed.
    • Alan, VK6PG is kindly handling all VK/ZL orders and despatches and he too can be emailed.
    And for your convenience we have a preview of most of the items in the STORES SHOP WINDOW. This window now carries a link to STORES NEWS, regularly updated.

    These documents are also available as .pdf for downloading from within our RSARS MEMBERS' E-LIBRARY.

  • (a) The Society's CONTESTS and AWARDS RULES
    (b) The Society's MAY ANNIVERSARY CONTEST RULES
    (c) MEMBERS' CURRENT AWARDS CLAIMS SITREP
    (d) AWARDS CLAIMS ARCHIVE
    (e) G3SIG AWARD - Station Movements Order

  • RSARS E-MAIL LIST SERVER HANDBOOK.

  • QSL MANAGER'S Current NEWSLETTER - with earlier Newsletters in archive for reference purposes:

    April 2007
    May 2007
    June 2007
    July 2007
    August 2007
    September 2007
    October 2007
    November 2007
    December 2007
    January 2008
    February 2008
    March 2008

    April 2008

  • MUSEUMS in the United Kingdom having a naval, military, aviation or wartime theme - 49 such Museums (and locations or collections of similar interest) are currently listed and described and links exist to all websites where available.

  • PHOTO GALLERY - photographs of Members, scanned by the Editor from prints supplied by the Members, or transmitted to him by e-mail. The Gallery includes The White Helmets and their Diary and "Members Remember" an item relating to former note-worthy postings with picture and story. The Photo Gallery is changed as frequently as we receive new new material.
    There is also our GREAT GALLERY, hosted off-site, where we have constructed several Rooms (52 to date) of themed pictures (198 at the moment) of Members and their activities.
    We have also added QUICKSILVER - its history and pictures - to preserve this historic chapter.

  • SEARCHES, AURORA NEWS and PROPAGATION FORECASTS. .

  • MilNetUK - free INTERNET ACCESS for the UK ARMED FORCES COMMUNITY.

  • The CORPS' COLLECT.

  • THE CORPS' OFFICIAL WEB SITE now very much up to date and extremely informative.

  • RSARS MEMBERS' E-LIBRARY containing (inter alia):

    Membership Callsign/Numbers List (Current month's update)
    QSL BUREAU USERS in call sign order and as a separate document in Membership number order (Current month's update)
    Society Rules
    Awards Rules, CWAD Contest Rules
    Contests Summary Sheet, CWAD Contest Log Sheet, CWAD Contest Summary Sheet
    Shack Aid
    The Society's history
    Main RSARS Stores List (for UK and Overseas [other than VK/ZL]), the VK/ZL-only RSARS Stores Prices List
    Review of "The Hidden Hand" by Professor Richard J. Aldrich
    Details of "Schonland: Scientist and Soldier" by Doctor Brian Austin, GØGSF
    The Berlin Wall by Major J.T.Aitken, TD. FRICS., GMØHZM
    Galloway's Secret War by Major J.T.Aitken, TD. FRICS., GMØHZM
    Another Galloway Secret by Major J.T.Aitken, TD. FRICS., GMØHZM
    The 40m Compact 4-Square Antenna by EA5AVL
    RSARS Information display leaflet - for Rally Stands etc.
    RSARS HISTORY POSTER - for Rally Stands etc.
    THE CORPS BADGE HISTORY POSTER - for Rally Stands etc.
    all in PDF file format with DOWNLOADING instructions.

  • MEMBERS' HOME MADE QSL CARDS ALBUM
  • SOLAR DATA MONITOR


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    OTHER RSARS FACILITIES

    RSARS DISPATCH OFFICE

    The opportunity to send electronic QSL CARDS and POSTCARDS to anyone with the e-mail facility and Internet access is available on this site. Full details are given on the Dispatch Office page and there is a wide choice of postcards and music. We have established a basic QSL card already and are embarking upon building up our own album for you to use subject to our obtaining suitable material - contributions gratefully accepted!!
    We assure you that this service is entirely FREE and there are no limitations on the number of times you may use it.

    Do please note however that most national radio societies will not accept electronic QSL cards for Award claiming purposes and RSARS is no exception - "cards" sent this way will not be eligible for RSARS Awards claims.

    CLICK HERE

    NEW RSARS GUEST BOOK
    7 October 2000 onwards


    View our Guestbook entries
    Sign our Guestbook if you wish

    RSARS EASYMAIL

    EasyMail - your easy route to send messages to such members of RSARS Council as are currently available on e-mail and also extended to the 170 or so Members who wish to be similarly available from this Site.
    The Page is fully interactive and easy to use and there is more advice on the subject on the Information and News page under Final Reminders.


    AUDIO

    THE CORPS' MARCH PAST

    Hear the sound of the marching band and the familiar "Begone Dull Care". Have your multi-media speakers switched on and allow several minutes for loading.
    The lyrics of this traditional English ballad are set out on the MARCH PAST WORDS PAGE.

    If you wish to save the sound file to your own computer then:-


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