About
Us
Our Club Venue:
The Post Mill
Community Centre
Market
Street
South
Normanton
Derbyshire
DE55 2EJ
Our club is open to all
Radio Amateurs, Short Wave Listeners and Radio Enthusiasts. Meetings
are every Monday evening at 7.30, with the exception of Bank Holidays
and
major holidays. The
Club has its own well-equipped radio shack with callsigns G0CPO
and
G1PWH (often used
with the club GX prefix).
There
is room at the club for meetings, construction, instruction
and socialising.
We have
facilities for making tea and coffee, but please note that drinks and
other refreshments should not
be taken into the radio shack areas.
There is a bar in the main village
hall building which serves
alcohol and other
beverages. Toilet facilities are available in the
main building too.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SMOKING
IS NOT PERMITTED IN THE CLUBROOMS
OR ANYWHERE INSIDE THE MAIN
VILLAGE HALL BUILDING.
The Origins Of 'SNADARC'
In early
1985 several
radio amateurs in the Alfreton area got together at the
Swan &
Salmon public house. The consensus was that it would be
useful to
have
a new local amateur club as the nearest ones were in Derby and
Mansfield.
The landlord at the time was a licensed radio amateur and it
seemed like the
ideal location!
The general idea was to
form a club for amateurs and shortwave
listeners.
It should have a friendly atmosphere, provide
somewhere for people to visit, and for everyone to be immediately
welcome and become part of the club.
With these aims in mind,
the club was formed, a committee elected and a
constitution created.
A.D.A.R.C. - the Alfreton
and District Amateur Radio Club - was now up
and running.
Over the next year the
club grew from just 10 to 46 members.
In later years a change
of club name took place to incorporate South
Normanton,
but the aims of the club are still the
same today. After just a year after it was
formed,
the club was put in the situation of requiring a new
meeting place due to the fact
that the Landlord of the Swan
&
Salmon was leaving.
At this point the
Explosives and Chemical Products Company (ECP)
stepped in
and offered free use of their social
club near to Alfreton railway station.
The location of the
clubroom was not ideal
for VHF operation
but the club was
assured that 400 watts of HF
would not set off any of the detonators and
explosives stored on site!
There were
several good years at the ECP social club before company policy made
another change of venue necessary.
After a
short stay at the Alfreton Town Football supporters club, we arrived at
the
New Street Community Centre, South Normanton. The club
spent quite a few years
there before moving to the Post Mill
Community Centre where we have
been
since January 2000.
2006
- SNADARC'S 21st Anniversary Year
The club
celebrated its 21st anniversary in 2006, and membership stood
at 70.
We welcomed
10 new members to the club this year as a result of the new
Foundation
Course, and are all settling in and
becoming valued members of the club.
Sadly our
Chairman, Russell Bradley G0OKD, suffered a heart attack and was rushed
to hospital where he undertook a heart bypass.
We are pleased to report he is now in good health again. He decided to
retire as Chairman,
but wished to continue as instructor
for all 3 stages of the Amateur
Radio Licenses.
As of 2008, Russell has
made a full recovery having now been fully
discharged from hospital and was elected Chairman
at the 2008 AGM.
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