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PLCG had their first meet of 2026 last night at their HQ pub in Leicestershire with the usual pints, pies and banter. The team reflected on their successes of 2025 with framed awards given for team members finishing in the UKAC 2025 top ten. An amazing achievement, the team had 6 team members finish the […]

The final results of the 2025 RSGB UKAC Contests are published. Having won the Local Section in 2023 and 2024, Parallel Lines CG entered the General Club section this year, allowing some of their alumni members to contribute to the team effort, and in doing so managed to push Northern Fells, who have won this

Continuing to show that Parallel Lines can meet, we descended on our usual South Leicestershire pub on 28th September for beers, food, chat and to exchange ideas & kit. As an Amateur Radio Society, Parallel Lines meet in person every month when a non-contesting Tuesday or Thursday gives a break from the UKAC. In between

Parallel Lines CG came 1st place in the RSGB SSB Field Day 2023 QRP Unassisted Portable Section, winning the G3PSH Memorial Trophy for the 2nd year running. PLCG made 116 valid QSOs with 5w with a simple 30m long end fed wire antenna. We ran for for only 7 hours during the 24 hour contest,

PLCG members attended the RSGB Convention last weekend to represent the team and to receive group and personal awards. It was great to meet up with other contesters for friendly banter! Also great to take home some silverware, fingers crossed we get to take more home at next years convention!! Pete G4CLA recipient of the

The results of the 144MHz (2) Trophy 2023 are now published and Parallel Lines Contest Group came in as 2nd place runner up in the 6 Hour Open Section. A great first weekend contest for the new team and success we can build on!

We took advantage of a free Thursday again on 7th September to get together as a team and enjoy a few beers at our usual haunt in South Leicestershire. Good guest ales this month and great company as always! A nice opportunity to discuss the previous weekends team portable operation for the 144MHz Trophy &

On Saturday 2nd September PLCG returned to multi-operator weekend contesting, successfully operating portable stations in this years RSGB 144Mhz Trophy/IARU Region 1 145Mhz contest and the RSGB SSB Field day/IARU Region 1 field day. We operated from North Leicestershire in the 6 hour Open section for VHF (1400-2000UTC) with 2 x 11 element Yagis @

We recently found some PLCG history. Photographs from Dover Patrol Memorial 1995 operating in the October UHF and 1.3/2.3GHz Trophy contests. Some faces to recognise here, particularly Pete G4CLA, Bernie G4HWA and Chris G0HFX

We had another meet up at our favourite pub in South Leicestershire. It’s all about the pies and guest ales! These regular meetings are great bonding for the team and provide an opportunity to swap knowledge, techniques and kit. In attendance were Pete G4CLA, Chris G0WUS, Carl G0NZI, Matt G5MAT, Allan G6HPR, Ben 2E0TXQ, Dave