In 1991 a small group of dedicated (or is that deranged) 6m
operators were driven together by their mutual interest in the Magic Band, beer drinking, late night take-aways and sitting on hill tops to form the White Noise
Listening Society (WNLS).
How did the group get its name?
We were members of various Radio Clubs and the hardened radio hams within
these thought that 50 Mhz was just a band full of White
Noise and could not see how anyone could be interested in sitting for hours listening to
that awful racket!!! As any true 6m operator will tell you this is completely true,
so in a show of defiance or madness (I was never sure which) we adopted White Noise Listening Society as the name for our group.
We are mainly a contest group, although we have organised
special event stations, the biggest of these was GB6SIX on the edge of the
Cotswold escarpment, in conjunction with the Stroud Radio Society (G4SRS), where we were
active on HF, 6m (all modes) and 2m as part of the UKSMG 10 year celebrations.
The full details of this was printed in UKSMG news
Between 2000 and 2003, most of the members were busy with other commitments so we did not enter any contests as a group,
some members entered as single op stations, notably G0HVQ
During 2003, we obtained the use of a field on top of the Cotswold escarpment, which included storage for the mobile contest shack (our caravan).
Prior to this we used Cleeve Hill as our main contesting site, this meant every contest was a major expedition,
especially when the contest used to run from midnight on Friday to midnight on Saturday.
The tales of woe and disaster while leaving Cleeve Hill in the early hours of Sunday morning after the contest are legendry!
Who said Contesting was easy?
The club call sign is G0WNL, but since we started contesting again in 2004 we have used members call signs. M5ADE/P and G5WQ/P
