CVRS celebrated its seventieth anniversary throughout the month of October 2016, and club President Bob Treacher M0MCV has written a history of the club which is available for purchase now. View the synopsis and ordering information here.

When it was formed in 1946, membership of the club was confined to licensed radio amateurs but listeners were soon welcomed and by 1977 CVRS was a thriving club with 149 members. Many will recall the M2000A special event station to celebrate the Millennium, and our success celebrating the London Olympic and Paralympic Games with the special event callsign 2O12L. Now, membership is steady at a little over 100 members

Activities organised for October 2016 included:

• A talk about the Society in the 1940s and 1950s
• An Anniversary party for members past and present. Guests of Honour were Nick Henwood G3RWF, President of the Radio Society of Great Britain, and Clive Efford, the local Member of Parliament
• A special Anniversary callsign GB70CV and activation of GX1RCV and GX3RCV
  
• A ’Platinum’ award scheme for contacting members

Special 70^th anniversary goods are available to purchase (order form). We are also taking orders for the commemorative memory stick containing 70 years of archive material, a total of over 65Gb of data.