News Sheet Extracts
Extracts from past VMARS Monthly News Sheets…..
The News Sheet consists of Members’ contributions (items of news, forthcoming events, reports on events held, help-lines, letters to the Editor), Committee business (formal notices, minutes of meetings), the Saturday Morning Net Controllers Rota, and Members’ advertisements. Advertisements are also accepted from non-members and are identified as such. The News Sheet is published at the end of each month and may be delivered electronically (in colour) or by post on paper (grey scale). Members are invited to submit contributions by the deadline, preferably in electronic form. Images to support the text are particularly welcome. Generally, all material submitted by the deadline (a fortnight before publication) will appear in the respective issue of the News Sheet. Requests to place advertisements should be sent to editor@vmars.org.uk.
Some of the interesting technical articles reproduced from early editions of the VMARS News Letter , published from 1999 to 2006, following which it was replaced by two VMARS publications, the News Sheet for general Society information, and Signal , the quarterly, technical VMARS flagship publication.
In addition to the Monthly News Sheet, VMARS has a highly acclaimed quarterly technical journal, SIGNAL
Click on the pictures or titles below to read the article extracts from past VMARS New Sheets
Post War British Defence Radar
The Alexanderson AC Alternator 200 kW
transmitter at Grimeton
VMARS Members at the
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
VMARS at the 2014 National Hamfest
VMARS International Landrover net
Great War Military Communications
A vist to John Birkett’s Wireless Emporium
Annual Wyong Field Day – Sydney
5MHz AM First Day – 1st January 2013