G0AOD, Dave hits 250 points in SOTA Activations - 10th May 2008

Dave has hit 100 SOTA activation points . From 2nd August 2007 to 10th May 2008, Dave's last last hill was G/WB-015 Callow Hill.
Dave has managed 56 summits average of 4.46 points per summit and completed 42 unique summits

G0AOD, Dave get his Mount Everest Award - 5th May2008

Dave has now climbed enough SOTA summits to go up Mount Everest and back in his quest to reach Mountain Goat and is now the 9th SOTA member to claim Mount Everest award. Dave now joins Steve, M0KPO and John, M0JOK in gaining this award.

Ten Thousand Visitors and Counting! - 15th March 2008

The Burton ARC Website has now had Ten Thousand visitors. We average 121 visitors per week, 499 visitors per month and in total 41526 visits including reloads have been made.

This is a great result for a small club website, we are so popular that over 200 Referrer sites are linked to us and we get visited from all over the world.

Places such as Peru, China, Iran, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Kenya and Japan are just some places that have visited us.

Steve, M0KPO hits 100 unique SOTA summits - 9th March 2008

Steve has now climbed 100 unique SOTA summits in his quest to reach Mountain Goat. In total Steve has climbed 132 summits and so far has 473 points

M0SCW, Sharon makes SOTA Shack Sloth - 16th February 2008

Sharon made 417 contacts to get her 1000 points and 168 unique summits were worked.

Sharon started on the 25th March 2006 making contact with Gerald, G4OIG/P on G/CE-002, Walton hill and finished with Frank, GW4RMD/P on GW/SW-014, Mynydd Carn-y-cefn.

Burton ARC Special Event - International Museums Weekend 2008 - 7th February 2008

M0KPO, Steve is working hard sorting out this event. Sudbury have now approved the QSL card and Steve is due to sign the contract soon so that the event can go ahead.

The approved QSL card. (Callsign TBC)

Steve has secured some tickets for the wives and special guests of the club to the museum, its suggested that you let him know you want a ticket. Tickets are on a first come first served basis.

MORE INFORMATION: Sudbury Hall, Museum of Childhood has agreed to allow us to display our station during the International Museums Weekend, 14 & 15th June 2008. They have given us a fantastic location which has free access to club members and visitors We will be near to the gift shops and cafe. The event looks to be a very busy one, they have just been through a £2.2 million re-development programme and just before we attend they will have had the grand opening and they expect it to be busy. We will be able to operate both VHF and HF during the weekend. Special Event Call Sign TBC

M0KPO, Steve has his weather photographs published - 7th February 2008

A new book that Steve has been involved with arrived on the doormat this morning.
The book is called "Storm Force, Britain's wildest weather", by Michael Fish MBE, Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson.

Some of you may know Steve likes to chase storms and as a result he has a collection of rather good images of UK storms. Some of Steve's images have been used in the book and also on the cover. Steve is rather chuffed, to say the least.

Michael Fish MBE, Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson have all signed and personally dedicated a Special Edition book to him.

Some of Steve's work can be seen on The UK Storm Guide, but Steve does like to keep most of his work private.

Storm Force, Britain's wildest weather - ISBN number: 978-1-905080-32-8

Congratulations to 2 New M3's - 1st February 2009

Congratulations to Geraldine and Laurie for passing their M3 Exam.

G0AOD, Dave hits 100 points in SOTA Activations - 6th January 2008

Dave has hit 100 SOTA activation points .