{"id":6156,"date":"2011-07-28T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/walford-electronics-qrp-in-the-country\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:26:50","slug":"walford-electronics-qrp-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/walford-electronics-qrp-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Walford Electronics&#8217; &#8220;QRP In the Country&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/QRPiC2011026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/QRPiC2011026.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634199392201769650\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;color:#000000;\" > A stiff wind and occasional drizzle did not put off the large attendance of QRP and home building enthusiasts who attended <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;color:#000000;\" >QRP in the Country<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;color:#000000;\" > on July 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;color:#000000;\" ><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;color:#000000;\" >. Hundreds of people from all over England and Holland found their way to Upton Bridge Farm, Somerset where the farm barns provided cover. About 25 stalls and displays showed off or sold everything from components to large construction projects. Apart from a few traders selling components, most displays were from Clubs publicising their activities or of ancient domestic and wartime radios, with a few individuals selling items to make space for new projects! There were also practical construction projects to be seen as \u2018students\u2019 built their Cary RXs with occasional help from the Bath Buildathon team led by Steve G0FUW. The catering team led by Tony G0GFL cooked a prodigious amount of special local burgers and sausages from the host Tim G3PCJ\u2019s farm served in rolls baked locally that very morning, and washed down by village beer and cider, under the careful eye of Robert PA9RZ!<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000000;\">A raffle raised \u00a3200 for those suffering in East Africa; the main prize being a year\u2019s subscription to PW kindly donated by Rob G3XFD which was won by Graham G4DPH. George G3RJV was asked to select a couple of displays that \u2018appealed\u2019 to him for two other prizes. The GQRP Club had kindly donated a special edition of Drew VK3XU\u2019s latest project book which was also won by G4DPH for his PW Sprat project; a Walford Electronics Radlet CW TCVR kit went to Colin G3YHU for his valved superhet. A years subscription to BYLARA was won by SWL Mike Jones who is about to take his Foundation licence course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000000;\"> After the event Tim G3PCJ said he was said delighted with the increased attendance and wished to thank everybody whose hard work had made the event so successful. He urged all Clubs within reasonable distance to plan their displays for next year! Watch the press for announcements of the date!<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000000;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Any questions to:-<br \/> Tim Walford G3PCJ <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-size:130%;\" ><u><a href=\"mailto:walfor@globalnet.co.uk\">walfor@globalnet.co.uk<\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>WALFORD ELECTRONICS <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.users.globalnet.co.uk\/%7Ewalfor\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>www.users.globalnet.co.uk\/~walfor<\/u><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Designers &#038; suppliers of kits for radio enthusiasts<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Proprietor Tim Walford BSc MIEE CEng G3PCJ<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/div>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stiff wind and occasional drizzle did not put off the large attendance of QRP and home building enthusiasts who attended QRP in the Country on July 17th. Hundreds of people from all over England and Holland found their way to Upton Bridge Farm, Somerset where the farm barns provided cover. About 25 stalls and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/walford-electronics-qrp-in-the-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walford Electronics&#8217; &#8220;QRP In the Country&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133,105,38,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets","category-kits","category-parts-suppliers","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}