Arac - Andover Radio Amateur Club

The Andover club started life in 1978, after the club started to meet regularly the membership snowballed and other licensed amateurs joined the club. ARAC has always accepted members with widely differing backgrounds from the Electonics & TV Trade.

The Andover club started life in 1978 when Martin Bushnell and Peter Wright G8GYS decided to winkle out other like minded electronics enthusiasts in the Andover area. Peter was running fast scan TV at the time and others were able to use ordinary TV sets to monitor his transmissions. In fact the firm of Link Electronics in Andover was a breeding ground for members housing as it did G8ADM Dave Mann and G8AER John Tanner.
After the club started to meet regularly the membership snowballed and other licensed amateurs joined in preferring the local club to the well established but somewhat distant club at Salisbury. ARAC has always been happy to accept members with widely differing backgrounds and it absorbed many from the CB fraternity alongside experienced signallers from the Services and engineers from the radio and TV trade.
The club’s venue has moved about over the years in an attempt to find that perfect location ie plenty of room for antennas and cars. So at the present time we are located in the village of Wildhern (now becoming well known for the Spring and Autumn Car Boot sales that we hold there). The club operates from the Village hall there which is well elevated for VHF operation and is remote enough from the village houses to cause no interference to TVs and the like.