With our annual Open Day just a few weeks away you can now buy tickets for our famous Open Day Raffle! As usual all proceeds go to Marie Curie Cancer Care, so it’s all for a good cause.

This year’s prizes are…

1st = Kenwood TM-D710E (worth £445.95)

2nd= Icom IC-E80D (worth £329.95)

3rd= Yaesu FT-60E (worth £129.95)

4th= bhi DSPKR (worth £129.95)

5th= Mark’s Goody Bag (Priceless!)

Call 01702 206835 to buy your tickets or click here.

A timetable of events at the Open Day is available to download here.

On 16th-18th August 2012, Waters & Stanton will sponsor the 2012 International EME Conference to be held in Churchill College Cambridge.

As the title suggests, it will focus on moonbounce communications, but also has applications for those interested in other forms of weak signal DX communications. For the period of the conference, a special remotely controlled moonbounce station will be in operation under the callsign of GB2EME. 4 x 17 element 2m Yagis will form the antenna array and those interested in moonbounce are urged to monitor and listen for the signals.

Icom will be in company with Waters & Stanton to offer a display of amateur radio equipment and InnovAntennas will be on hand to discuss their wide range of antennas.

There will be a £500 raffle prize that can be used against the purchase of Icom equipment from Waters & Stanton.

For full details, please go to www.eme2012.com.

Waters & Stanton’s 22nd Annual Open Day will this year be held on Sunday 3rd June at our Hockley store.

Our open day is a great place to find a bargain and talk radio, with huge discounts on big name brands aswell as our famous Service deptartment clear out. All the big name manufacturers will be there, Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu, along with newcomers InnovAntennas plus groups like Essex Repeater Group and Chelmsford ARS making it a great place to talk about amateur radio.

As always there will be free refreshments, and a charity raffle with some fantastic prizes, which we’ll announce nearer the time, and we’ll also be presenting the Regional Club of the Year!

Below you will see the posters for this year’s event, and you can download them below to decorate your shack!
Download Poster #1, Poster #2, Poster #3

Last Saturday the 21st April the RSGB National Club of the Year Awards presentation was held, sponsored by Waters & Stanton. The event took place at the Swan Hotel, Bedford, in conjunction with the Annual General Meeting.

Our Sales Director Mark Francis, G0GBY, was given the honour of presenting the awards to the three Clubs in the final and then enjoyed lunch with the finalists.

The overall winners were Telford & District Amateur Radio Society. Loughton & Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society (LEFARS) and Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society were also highly commended.

Mark Francis presenting Club of the Year winners Telford & District Amateur Radio Society with their award.

Mark with Milton Keynes ARS who came 2nd.

Mark with Loughton & Epping Forest ARC who finished 3rd.

This week we took delivery of a new W&S van, after our old van gave up and went to motoring heaven on the way to the Cambridge Rally back in March. The new vehicle is bigger which will help us carry more stock to the local exhibitions as well as making local AV deliveries easier – a service we provide for free.

Waters & Stanton can exclusively offer the Kantronics KAM-XL HF/VHF TNC for only £169.95!

All stock is BRAND NEW & factory sealed! The KAM-XL offers 1200 & 300 band Dual Port operation. Ports: 2x DB-9 radio, 1x DB-15 telemetry, 1x DB-9 aux/GPS port, 1x RS-232 terminal port. It looks like and emulates the industry standand KAM Plus, but with many more features.

Usual Price: £449.95 Special Offer Price: £169.95 SAVE: £280!

HURRY WHILE STOCKS LAST! CLICK HERE!

W&S have been presented with the below certificate for raising £119.85 for Essex Air Ambulance over the last year.

We collect for Essex Air Ambulance on our shop counter throughout the year, and would like to thank all those who have donated during the year.

You can find out more about Essex Air Ambulance & the fantastic work they do, here: http://www.essexairambulance.co.uk/

Steve Smith, G0TDJ (pictured above), was the lucky winner of a Yaesu VR-160 handheld receiver today when his ticket was drawn from the hat in our raffle to raise money for Little Havens Hospice. Steve, an enthusiastic ham from Kent, saw the draw take place on twitter and said “Many Thanks, and I hope it raised lots of cash for Havens Hospices”.

The raffle raised £50 for Little Havens Hospice, a local charity, who provide respite care for children with life threatening conditions. The VR-160 receiver was kindly donated to us by Yaesu UK, so a big thank you to them, as well as all who bought tickets and helped raise money for a very worthy cause – maybe it will be you next time!

If you would like to find out more about Little Havens just click the picture below.

Win a Yaesu VR-160 handheld scanner

Tickets are £1 per strip

All proceeds raised go to Little Havens childrens hospice

Raffle closes 31st Dec 2011. Come into our Hockley store or call 01702 206835 to buy your raffle tickets.