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FURNESS AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY

Representing Amateur Radio in Furness and South Cumbria for over 110 years!

CLUB MEMBERS : all weekly actives are detailed via the members Groups.IO communications.

We offer a warm welcome to the website of Furness Amateur Radio Society (FARS) and thanks for stopping by. We are a small but active bunch of amateurs and listeners who predominantly live on the Furness peninsula of Cumbria, in Northern England.

We also have members elsewhere in this country who wish to maintain involvement with the club. We are an affiliated club to the RSGB and a member of Northern Amateur Radio Societies Association.  2023 celebrates 110 years since the formation of the Barrow in Furness Wireless Association - the forefather for the modern day Furness Amateur Radio Society, one of the oldest radio clubs in the UK.

Recent FARS News

The first club meeting of 2023 was a show and tell event where club members could show all the radio / electronics related items they had received for Christmas. In February Mike, M0MJX, held a presentation and demonstration of the VARAC data mode. Mike, and a few other club members, have been experimenting with this mode over recent month.

Members enjoyed the presentation on how to set up the software and radio, and were treated to a successful live demonstrations with a QSO into North America. Later in the month members attended a very interesting virtual meeting about a planned project to collect surplus kit to be transported to the Ukraine.

About Furness Amateur Radio Society

In 2013 we celebrated 100 years of Amateur Radio on the Furness area using the call GB100RXY. We have a regular weekly skeds on the air on HF usually 80m followed by 2m but we also have meetings alternating between the Farmers Arms, Newton-in-Furness and Hawcoat Park Sports Club in Barrow-in-Furness. The club will also meet on occasions at Gleaston Water Mill which remains a club venue and is owned by a club member. Our club call is GX4ARF and this is put on the air from various venues through the year.  We participate in several Special Events each year such as SOS Radio weeks, Railways on the Air, Mills on the Air, Lighthouses on the Air, JOTA and raise money for our local lifeboat station. We have taken part in SSB Field Days and have for several years taken part in the 80m Club Contest fielding SSB, CW and Data stations, averaging position 8 for the last few years.

If you are holidaying, working or just visiting the Furness area and wish to meet some local amateurs, then you will be assured of a friendly informal welcome. Details of our meetings can be found here

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