The Bittern DX Group are proud to announce that our "Transmission 2009" fundraising station for the British Wireless the Blind Fund has managed to scoop both club trophies.

Thanks  to the wonderful effort of the members "GB2TX"  achieved 1113 contacts during the weekend of the 20th and 21st of September and raised over £450. We were surprised that despite the group's lowest total of donations since we started participating five years ago in this annual fundraising initiative that it was still good enough to win!

As the year of 2009 draws to a end it is time to review the achievements of the Bittern DX Group as a whole and compare them to previous years.

It was an extremely busy year for BDXG on the contest front, with excellent performances in four of the RSGB Club Championships. Which culminated in the group securing its first RSGB Contest Certificate due to an excellent 4th place finish in only our second year of participation. We managed to consolidate our 2008  performance with our second Top10 finish in the 80m Club Championships but we unfortunately dropped a place this time around to finish in10th spot. BDXG also managed 5th position in the 70cm CC at our first real attempt, aswell as 13th position in the 50 MHz Club Championships.

A brand-new BDXG club trophy has been made available from 2010 to join the others open to all Bittern DX Group members.

It comes in the shape of a data competition, the brainchild of Ken M6KAH who is particularly keen on these modes since gaining his licence through the first BDXG foundation licence course.

He has found that data is a wonderful medium for making the most of the 10W restriction of the foundation licence and has worked almost 100 countries in his first year. He wished to increase activity within the group's membership on these modes so submitted his idea of a contest to the committee for approval. It goes without saying that it gained unanimous support at our last committee meeting and the "Bittern DX Group Annual Data Contest" was born.

The trophy has arrived and was sponsored by Ken M6KAH, the contest Will run annually using the data modes of RTTY, PSK31 and PSK63 only commencing at 00.00.01 on the 1st January until 23.59.59 on 31st December. It doesn't just rely solely on the amount of DXCC's worked per band in the calendar year that would be too easy, instead it cleverly uses BDXG members as multipliers to increase club activity.

On the weekend of the 26th and 27th of September members of the Bittern DX Group (BDXG) and the Norfolk Amateur Radio Group (NARC) joined forces for a Railways on the Air event. Both clubs operated a separate SES from the two main stations on the North Norfolk Railway's "Poppyline", which runs between Sheringham and Holt.