Welcome to the Online Amateur Radio Community Wiki. We are a UK online based community, here to have fun and experiment with and provide training on amateur radio – An Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) club providing members Support, Advice, and Community, without Committee. Our community is hosted on the popular Discord platform, that provides 24/7 chat and meeting facilities.

This is the Wiki for our community and has extra information on lots of different topics of radio and more.

OARC is a RSGB affiliated club that was formed on 28th May 2020 during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. We have currently over 2,800 registered members registered on our Discord Server. We would ask anyone who would like to join to read our Constitution here.

Wiki registration is available on our Discord in the Wiki channel.

Activities

• OARC Calendar
• The Rubber Duck Pub Night - 1st & 3rd Saturday each month is Pub Night
• OARC FOTA Activity Day 2026 - 27th June 2026 - Details for this year and reports from 2022-2025 here (Ex-SOTA Day)
• Worked All OARC 2026 - Details for 2026 here!
• OARC's very own ADS-B Flight Tracking project - help feed us data!
• Packet radio - a very active project as we try and rebuild a network and learn about this technology

Member Pages

• Who's Who on Discord - Find contact details for the various activities throughout the OARC
• New Member Info - New to OARC? Then this is for you.
• Membership Stats - Simple membership stats from Discord
• Member List - Added by members themselves
• Members Map - Added by Members
• Member Articles - DIY guides, tutorials, and member projects
• Pastebin - A space for members to paste notes or other text

Community Events

• Group Buy Builds - Starting with NinoTNC
• APRS Kit Build - Details to follow
• OARC - Club Night - An introduction to DMR by Matt 2E0SIP
• OARC Makers Show and Tell Night - Periodic, see page to sign up for talks or just to show interest
• List of Past Videos - from Community members
• JS8Call Net night - Thursday 28th July 2022 - 20:00 BST

Resources

• Club Callsigns - Club Callsigns available for use by members who are Full licensees.
• Advice - Wiki links for Advice now here - If in doubt start a page here
• A-Z List of Pages - complete list of all pages
• M0PYL Callsign Lookup - Tool to find unallocated UK Amateur Radio Callsigns
• UK Callsign Checker Tool to search UK Amateur Radio Callsign in the Ofcom Database by Rupok - M7RCF. Note this uses a historic database from Jan 2024
• Useful Links - all sorts of links for organisations, modes, software etc
• Slow to Medium Speed CW Net Format - the running order and glossary for our Slow to Medium Speed CW Net
• Web SDR List - A list of web-connected SDRs to listen to the bands on the internet.
• Ideas Page - A scratchpad for ideas for things to do or that need doing for OARC
• Brickworks Member Achievements
• Archive - Move links to pages no longer required on start page or elsewhere
• Sandboxes - Have a play on the wiki
• Dokuwiki Formatting - How to use Dokuwiki markup language