WADARC meets at – Lions Hall, 21 Roberts Road, Lancing. BN15 8AR.
THE PAST WEEK
Last Wednesday’s meeting was very eventful. Les, G3JSU provided members with laminated sheets with details of the club’s nets on them – very useful for the shack wall.
A small posse of us visited the Sea Cadets HQ in Worthing – TS Vanguard. We met with Captain Minter, who was very amenable and seems keen to have us hire the premises for club meetings. Details of the facilities (including radio room and aerials) have already been posted to members, this means that our meeting night will have to change to Monday or Tuesday. A Doodle Poll was setup for members to indicate their favourite evening. The Poll is still open, but the overwhelming response has been in favour of Tuesdays. It’s still not too late to cast your vote at: https://doodle.com/poll/uhpv3z2ipenkmft8
Subject to final negotiations and approval, we hope to move club QTH in mid-January 2019.
Next week’s meeting will be partly tea and chat, but more importantly Graham, G4FNL will be conducting a planning meeting for setting up a commemorative station for WADARC’s 70th anniversary. ALL members are welcome and we look forward to your ideas and any support you’re able to give.
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
Sunday Breakfast – Sunday 2nd December – 9.00am-10.00am – Morrisons, Worthing
Planning and discussion meeting + Tea & Chat – Wednesday 5th December – 8.00pm-10.00pm – Lions Hall
Club Annual Christmas Dinner – Wednesday 12th December – 7.00pm-10.00pm – The Old Tollgate, Bramber. Note: Lions Hall will be closed
Tea and Chat + Mince Pies – Wednesday 19th December – 8.00pm-10.00pm – Lions Hall
NO MEETING – Wednesday 26th December – Lions Hall CLOSED
Tea and Chat + pre-QTH move discussion – Wednesday 2nd January – 8.00pm-10.00pm – Lions Hall
For further information as it occurs, please visit the WADARC website: 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 – 70 cms 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
Summer 2018 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/summer-2018
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF:
RSGB propagation info can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2018/11/30/propagation-news-2-december-2018/
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=2018
FINALÉ
Please tell all of your friends, other members, past members and anyone you think would be interested that we hope to move club QTH to TS Vanguard – Worthing Sea Cadets HQ – in January.
Also mention the Doodle Poll for members and prospective members to vote on your preferred meeting night: https://doodle.com/poll/uhpv3z2ipenkmft8
The poll is open to everyone as we’d like to get an idea of non-members who might join/re-join.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
