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Maidstone Radio Club was started in 1937. They were in Upper Fant Road. After the war they reformed and met at a now demolished school in London Road. In about 1952 a second Club was formed in Maidstone by G6NU and Des Mullen G3ABF. They met at premises in Union Street. Not the YMCA there though. The trail then went cold in my research after about 1956, which was the last report of any Maidstone club activity in RSGB Bulletin, Wireless World or Short Wave Magazine. A Maidstone club was reformed in 1962 at the YMCA in Union Street Maidstone. As Graham correctly notes Robbie G3ERY was chairman. There was a Scots guy who was Treasurer I remember. The original Maidstone club of 1937 had the call G3WM. It was never re-issued after the war. I managed to get it reissued in 2005. When I left Kent Bill Walker in Tunbridge Wells held the licence. He first joined the Maidstone club as a schoolboy in 1951?
Other members were Jack (later) G4EMC, Dickie Bird G2BLU, Jack Warner G3ABZ and Dick G2BMP who later emigrated to VK. I can't remember his VK call off hand but I worked him several times and he visited the club in about 1985.?
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Shaun
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On 4 Oct 2012, at 00:36, Graham Edy <
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Hi
I remember Bill G6NU, I often heard him on 160M in the 1970s. I know I did contact him probably more than once, but without my logbooks I cannot remember exactly when.? I also have vague recollections of meeting Bill, but the man who would remember him well is Peter Pickering G3ORP.? As many of you know the Maidstone club closed down in the late 1950s and was restarted and became associated with the YMCA with the help of Robbie Robertson G3ERY who died in 1976.? I don't know if Bill Nutton was also involved also.? I think the club was re-formed as the Maidstone YMCA Amateur Society in around 1962/3. I had a chat with Robbie's son Malcolm about when exactly the club was re-established, however Malcolm passed away on 10th. August.? Peter Pickering and Jack King G4EMC are the only people I know who know what went on over 50 years ago.? The last time I looked at the club web site it seemed to imply that the Maidstone radio club has been in continuous existence since it was first established in the 1930s, that is not true.
I will speak to Peter and see if he would like to come to the meeting on the 19th. October, I should be more available then as well.
Graham G4AXD
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On 03/10/2012 10:53, Keith Anderson wrote:
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John - G6IVP asked me to advise everyone at MYARS of the following:
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Dear MYARS Friends,
It occurred to me that there may be some members, within your club, who knew William (Bill) Nutton G6NU "Naughty Uncle" who was a founder member of the MARTS. As well as founding the MARTS, I believe that Bill played a part in the formation of an amateur radio club in Maidstone. Whether or not this became MYARS I do not know but some members may be interested.
I would therefore like to invite anyone from your club to the following meeting of the MARTS on Friday 19 October 2012 at the MARTS QTH (Tunbury Hall) open at 19:30 hrs local time. Please note this open invitation to members and friends old and new.
On the evening of Friday 19th Oct! ober 2012 the MARTS will be privileged to welcome Bill Nutton's granddaughter, Ms Elaine Nutton, who has asked to meet the Club members and has offered to talk, informally, of her Grandfather.
As you may know, from the beginnings of the MARTS, throughout until his death 30 years ago early in 1982, Bill was active in Amateur Radio and served as a long time President of the MARTS.
It seems appropriate that, in its 90th year, the MARTS will have this opportunity for some of us to reminisce and others to learn about G6NU's life and to share, with Elaine, what we know of his part in the Club's history.
73 - John Burton G6IVP - MARTS Chairman
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