RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club

Welcome to RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club

This is the website of the RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club, based at the Pyewipe Inn, Lincoln, England.

We are a group of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience, all with a shared passion for everything radio! Not sure what amateur radio is? Find out all about it at the Radio Society of Great Britain.

We hope you enjoy your visit to our site and look forward to meeting you on a club night or on the air.

Special Event Station GB0NAM, June 2022

Wed, Jun 29, 2022 We were back at the Newark Air Museum during the weekend of 25-26th June, 2022, for the museums’ Cockpit Fest. Operating using the Special Event callsign GB0NAM, we were able to make a number of interesting contacts, including a contact with the Croatian amateur radio station, callsign 9A22YOTA, which was being operated remotely from the Friedrichshafen Hamfest as part of the 2022 Youngsters on the Air(YOTA) summer camp (hosted this year by the Croatian Amateur Radio Association in the city of Karlovac, near Zagreb).

Special Event Station GB4OBB, May 2022

Tue, May 10, 2022 RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club ran a Special Event Station, using the callsign GB4OBB, at Newark Air Museum during the museum’s Falklands 40th and Cold War Call-up event, taking place on Saturday, 30th April and Sunday, 1st May. This two-day event coincided with the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the successful Black Buck 1 Vulcan bombing raid on the runway at Port Stanley Airport in the Falkland Islands - you can read more about the operation at Vulcan to the Sky Trust.

Special Event Station GB5BK, April 2022

Fri, Apr 8, 2022 Members of RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club activated the site of the former RAF Binbrook airfield on the weekend of 9-10 April as part of Airfields on the Air. We used the Special Event Station callsign GB5BK, as “BK” was the airfield’s radio ident. in the days when it was operational. A good weekend was had by all and we would like to thank the many stations who took the time to call us.

Special Event Station GB80LAN, March 2022

Wed, Mar 2, 2022 The club recently took part in the GB80LAN special event, commemorating the first operational sortie of the Avro Lancaster ( to lay mines in Heligoland Bight ), 80 years ago. The event took place from 1st-28th March, with several clubs with associations to stations operating the Lancaster (RAF Waddington, RAF Cosford, RAF Halton and Lincoln Shortwave Club) sharing the use of the callsign over the duration of the event. You can read more about the event on the RAFARS website here.