After five years of successful fundraising on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund, the Bittern DX Group felt it was time for a change in 2010.

Our priority this time around was to raise funds solely for a Norfolk-based charity, several were discussed and despite their many merits most were rejected . Having blind members already receiving assistance from the Norfolk and Norwich Association to the Blind's equipment centres. As the NNAB receives no state funding and is a totally local independent charity, it was decided to approach them.

BDXG's enquiry I must say he was met with great enthusiasm and we've had several contacts with them to organise an event and a raffle to raise funds. We are pleased to say plans are going very well and the dates will be published here soon.

On Sunday 24th January 2010 at Antingham Village Hall it was examination day for the six candidates on the BDXG FL4 course, plus one retake from FL3. Considering the snow and ice that limited attendance to the first part of the course on 10th January it was a very good turnout on FL4. For those candidates who could not make it due to the severe weather, they had been offered places on FL5 due to take place in March.

BDXG are glad to report that out of the 7 candidates that took the examination, 5 were successful with two achieving a 100% pass score. Well done to all the candidates, we look forward to hearing you on the bands soon and once again thank you to the BDXG team of instructors.

If you are interested in amateur radio we still have some places left on the next course, so contact us for availability.

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.

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!