The home for the Newhaven Fort Amateur Radio Group

This is the website for the Newhaven fort's amateur radio group where we are sited up on the very top of the cliffs at Newhaven estuary entrance of the river Ouse and the gateway to Europe.

Here we boast a very nice vista of the south coast at the dizzy heights of over a hundred feet above sea level, this radio group is located in the forts signals room under the gun placement to the west of the Newhaven forts interesting site of this war and peace time attraction.

The radio group has grown from strength to strength building and adding to the displays and membership over the course of the time we have been resident at this site through the generosity of Lewes Distinct Council letting us feature the important role of demonstrating radio through the period of yester year.The group consists of members of all ages and ranges of interests.

The Jim Hicks memorial G4XRU radio room features some of the very latest radio equipment supplied by Martyn Lynch and Sons with the aid of a lottery grant awarded to the group in favour of training young people.

A picture of the radio hand over fom martyn lynch

The antenna farm consists of a full sized Doublet for 0 to 50 mhz , we also have a rotatable VHF and UHF beams along with the colinear antennas for these bands ,there is also a colinear for the repeater and the council emergency radio system  

Next to the groups radio and training room we have a memorial museum in memory of Cyril Fairchild G3YY who's family donated many of the exhibits in this museum

 The group has been donated a HF linear amplifier from Berry Harper widow of John Harper the late G0WZS of East Dean a regular participant of the morning nets and of course a very active HF operator .Thank you Berry on behalf of the group for the amerritron 811 amplifier.

A final note for this page

Membership of this website does not constitute membership the the Newhaven Fort Amateur Radio Group ,Applications are to be made to Eric G4KIT via Cotact us on this site or obtaining an application form on site at the fort radio room  , when approved membership fees are £10 per year payable September each year to the group treasurer.The group is just a group not a club per-sae which invites members on a working relationship as it is purely a working group .All Members of the group are expected to be involved in the up keep of the facility in order to keep it operational in all facets.Members are also expected by the landlord to be involved with the visiting public and the encouragement of education to all visiting children (primary part of our constitution).

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After the winter movements and works activity we have now moved seamlessly into the summer season where many visiting public are now on site ,please read an email sent to the group with regard vehicle movements within the fort.

Please can all members of NFARG who are able to walk up to the radio
room please do so . We are noticing that more cars are driving up to the
radio room rather than parking in the moat. If you need to collect or
drop something off please make sure that you  drive up to and from the radio room
before 10am or depart after 14.30 pm, that hazzard lights are on , and you drive no quicker than
walking pace. 
We need to be strict about this before any accidents happen .
Thank you

Simon colbran ,Minna Robertson, Phillip Baldock             Lewes District Council (fort management)

Common sence prevails please do not take the micky with this request as this may result in people being ejected and barred from attending in the future ........You have been warned !.

N.B.

When attending all visitors and members to the radio room/group  are expected to sign in at the fort shop / guard room upon entrance and again upon departure.LDC Health and safety regs require this at all times.Please remember ALL members must have thier membership cards and present them at the fort shop / guard room upon arrival. 

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CONTACT US

We can be contacted real time by several means

We are Skypable on the skype idetitiy of  GB2NFM where we can take Skype phone calls or text messages via this medium providing someone is there and no one in the radio room turns the computer off !!  :(

we are on twitter as nfarg gb2nfm m0nfp

We monitor 145.500 s20 when any members are in attendance

We also monitor Gb3LR

 We are accessable on Echolink the node number for this is 494669 (GB3LR-R)

 All of the above are monitored most of the time however we have also email contact means as well just click the tab for contact us at the top of this page.

GB3LR

This site is the home of the amateur radio repeater GB3LR, a uhf 70centimeter repeater set up on the newer wider commercial spaced offset frequency of

Output 430.862,5

Input     438.462,5

With the ctcss access tone of 88.5 Hz

The repeaters group page is here http://www.gb3lr.org.uk/

Echolink can be heard on the repeater however you need to set your ctcss tone guard to encode only so the recieve can be open on just normal squelch to hear the internet side of things.

LEWES DISTRICT COUNCIL 

We also host the site for the Lewes District Council's Emergency Radio System which is used in times of natural emergencies like flooding and adverse weather conditions.