WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD
THE PAST WEEK
The meeting at Kithurst Hill attracted quite a few members, including Roger, G7VBR who provided refreshments – thanks Roger. Unfortunately there wasn’t much activity on 70cms FM and nobody had any gear for SSB, although there was some SSB and CW activity on HF from Alex, 2E0UMD and Bryan, G0SIU. I was able to open the GB3SN repeater at Four Marks (Hants) with just a few watts from a handheld, which proves that the location is good for VHF and UHF.
On Friday, Pete, G4LKW led a team of helpers and the temporary QTH for GB8SL (tent) was erected and the station set up at Shoreham Lighthouse. Unfortunately the trap dipole gave some trouble, even before it was raised in the air, with the wire parting company with one of the traps. Fortunately we had mains power by then, so Roger’s trusty soldering iron was put to work and a repair was made. The antenna was erected and appeared to tune OK, but over the next few hours, using higher power, intermittent SWR issues were experienced and Pete went off to fetch the Carolina Windom to erect in place of the dipole. Unfortunately, part of the Windom is vertically polarised and this led to severe QRM from the nearby broadcast station, which rendered 40 metres more or less useless, so the station operated mainly on 20 metres for a while and some rare stations were worked. Fortunately, Phil – G4UDU came to the rescue and took the dipole home to repair it, returning it a few hours later. Dipole re-installed and lower HF bands were usable again. Despite some rather strong winds and some lack of sleep, Pete and Ed (M0MNG) aided and abetted by various others, managed to work over 280 stations, including many lighthouses, over the two day Lighthouses event. No doubt a further full report will appear in Ragchew in the near future. Many thanks to all who took part, especially those who helped to setup and pull down and to Roger, G7VBR for providing much needed food for the operators.
Further details of the forthcoming Foxhunt will appear in next week’s Bulletin.
Most of you should have received an email informing you that WADARC Annual Subscriptions will soon be due. Please consider re-joining – your club needs you!
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Tea and Chat – Tuesday 20th August – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- 3rd leg, VHF Foxhunt – Tuesday 27th August – 7.30pm-9.30pm – TS Vanguard WILL be open as usual at 8.00pm
For further information as it occurs, please visit the WADARC website: http://www.wadarc.org.uk
NETS
Monday – 2 metres 145.425 MHz, FM, 7.30pm (local)
Thursday – 40 metres 7.106 MHz +- QRM, SSB, 11.00am (local)
Saturday – 70cms on GB3WO, 7.00pm (local)
Sunday – 80 metres 3.712 MHz +- QRM, SSB, 7.30am – 8.00am (local)
RALLIES
Local, national and some international rallies can be found by visiting this excellent website: http://www.g4rga.org.uk/All.html
RAGCHEW
Spring 2019 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/spring-2019
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF
RSGB propagation information can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2019/08/16/propagation-news-18-august-2019/
BEACONS
VHF:
GB3WSX – IO80QW – 70.007 MHz
GB3BAA – IO91PS – 70.016 MHz
F1ZXK – JN18KF – 144.438 MHz
F5ZSF – IN88GS – 144.409 MHz
GB3VHF – JO01EH – 144.430 MHz
ON0VHF – JO20HP – 144.418 MHz
UHF:
F5XBA – JN18KF – 432.830 MHz
GB3UHF – JO01EH – 432.430 MHz
ON0UHF – JO20ET – 432.567 MHz
DX NEWS
HF:
WADARC members (and others) can subscribe to the DX News service without joining ARRL.
Send an email to this address: w1aw-list-request@arrl.org
In the subject line put the word Subscribe followed by your email address
ARRL will send an acknowledgement and you will receive the weekly DX News as an email, usually on a Friday
VHF/UHF:
The RSGB VHF/UHF Contest and Activity calendar is available via this link: https://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/readcal.pl?year=2019
FINALÉ
Please note that although there doesn’t seem to be much happening with the club’s programme, this is only due to us waiting for confirmation and as soon as an event is confirmed, it will be listed here and on the club website. We do have interesting events planned for the future!
73,
Alan. G4GNX
