Date:

Friday 29 February & Saturday 1 March

Venue:

Grainger Market

Time:

10:00 - 16:00

Cost:

Free

c. Stuart Hill

Amateur radio enthusiasts share the pleasures of their hobby with anyone who cares to listen.

Before the internet, there were people who chatted to each other on the radio. These amateur radio `hams' formed a worldwide community and a pool of communications expertise.

Many of them are still out there (the UK has 65,000 licensed radio amateurs) and some of them will be attending a radio rally in the Grainger Market, Newcastle, in collaboration with Waygood Gallery which has created a new Arts Amateur Radio Club to explore the creative possibilities of the medium.

At this event, people will be able to put faces to the voices they hear on air. The Radio Society of Great Britain's mobile radio shack, GB4FUN, will be on hand to enable the uninitiated to get some hands-on radio experience.

It promises to be one of the most extraordinary gatherings of recent times.