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 7.00pm, 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 POST MILL CENTRE 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. 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.   |
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