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Meetings
EARS holds club meetings on the second and fourth Monday in each month. Sometimes Bank Holidays etc. confuses this arrangement, so best check with a member before making a long journey!! You can find us at: |
Coffee Mornings
Also you can catch up with us at Costa Coffee mornings. Now every Tuesday 10:00am - 12:00am at the branch in Bedford Square, Exeter. (Opposite Debenhams' entrance).
Nets
The Club runs regular Nets as follows:-
| Net | When | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 2m FM Net | Every Tuesday at 7.45pm | 145.575MHz |
| HF 80m SSB Net | Monday Evenings when not a club night, again at 7.45pm |
3675kHz or 3670kHz +/- a bit of QRM as is usual. LSB of course. |
| Bob Net | Fridays. 8.30pm | GB3WR repeater |
All Amateurs are of course very welcome to join the fun in any of these nets!
Newsletters
These are in the Members Only section, for which you will need a society password.
Exeter ARS History
The club was formed on the 12th September 1920. Then known as Exeter & District Wireless Society. A number of well known amateurs of the pre-WWII period came from the society. Amongst them was
- Herbie Bartlett G5QA who became the president of the R.S.R.B. in 1955.
- Rev. A.B. Trewin G2AT the vicar of Exminster.
- F. W. Saunders G3MU.
- Sir J. Ambrose Fleming M.A., D.Sc, FRS the inventor of the Thermionic Diode which lead to the development of valve technology was the most famous member. He was granted an experimental license in 1905. In 1926 he became the president of the Exeter & District Wireless Society and was Vice-president of the wireless society of London in November 1913. He later retired to Sidmouth where he died in 1945..
- Thomas Smith a former member back in 1939 was the town RSGB representative for Exeter for many years in the 1950s
After the war in 1947 the members met and renamed the club to the Exeter Amateur Radio Society as it is known today.