Bob Newland G3VW

This website is a tribute to my late father, Bob Newland, and the story of his life in Amateur Radio. Geoff Newland www.geoffnewland.com

My father's interest in amateur radio started in the 1920s when he was in his teens. But until he was aged 21, the Post Office licensing department would not communicate with him directly. They would only write to his father.

His first callsign was 2DLV. In 1938 he was granted a full licence G3VW.

He was one of the first members of the Edgware & District Amateur Radio Society.

This article about my father and other radio hams appeared in the Daily Telegraph Magazine supplement dated 15th February 1974: Daily Telegraph

In 1981 my father moved to Lyme Regis in Dorset and joined the Yeovil Amateur Radio Club.

The menu across the top of the page will take you to the following pages:

• QSL CARDS: QSL cards used by my father over the years.

• FIELD DAYS: Pictures of Field Days my father was involved in from 1950.

• DFINDING: Pictures of Direction Finding contests from 1950.

• HAM SHACKS: Pictures of his radio equipment at different stages from the 1960s onwards.

• EDGWARE: Early pictures of people in the Edgware & District Amateur Radio Society 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

• AWARDS: Some of the awards my father received.

• OLD DOCS: Some very early official documents from the 1940s onwards. These are all PDF files which can be downloaded.

• EXAM PAPERS: A collection of 26 Radio Communication and other City and Guilds and Civil Service examination papers from the 1940s.

National Field Days:

NFD 1950

NFD 1950 call signs of previous picture

NFD 1950 G5FG/P

NFD 1950 G5FG/P call sign IDs of previous picture

NFD 1960 Strawberry Field High Wycombe

NFD 1961

NFD 1962

NFD 1963

NFD 1966 G3VW assembling aerial

NFD 1967

NFD 1968

NFD 1968 G3VW and G3BZG

NFD 1968

NFD 1969

NFD 1972

NFD 1977

NFD 1986 Eric in Farnboroughs field Lyme Regis

NFD 1994

NFD 1994 G3VW and G3FFH

NFD unknown