THE PAST WEEK
Obviously nothing to report from meetings last week, but we did have a couple of nets over the holiday period. There was also a 4 metre FM net on Christmas morning, run by Tony, G8XRX.
Phil, G4UDU ran the Santa Claus net on 80 metres on Christmas Eve. I counted at least 10 participants whilst I joined in, as follows:
G4UDU. G4GNX. G8MUQ. GX1WOR. G4LKW. G3EUE. M0VUE. 2E0RKO. G0BHK. G0NKZ.
The 4 metre FM net, although not a WADARC net, is reported here because it’s run for people in the Worthing area and at least two of its members are also WADARC members. The net commenced at 10.00am on Christmas morning, as follows:
G4NSJ. 2E1EOO. G4GNX. G4JEI. G0DWZ. G8XRX. There may have been others after I left the net.
The traditional WADARC Christmas Morning net was run by yours truly at between 11.00am and 12.00pm on Christmas Day. There were 14 participants as follows:
G4GNX. G3UFS. G4LKW. 2E0RKO. GX1WOR. M0HJF. G0TLU. M0TVV. G3POQ. M0LJK. M0RDV. G4FFE. M6WHH. G4WCP.
Thanks to all who took the trouble to join in the festivities.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- NO MEETING – 31st December – TS Vanguard will be closed.
- Planning for the future + Tea and Chat – 6th January – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
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
2019 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/spring-2019
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF
No RSGB propagation information this week.
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
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VHF/UHF:
The RSGB VHF/UHF Contest and Activity calendar is available via this link: https://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/readcal.pl?year=2020
FINALÉ
A very Happy New Year to all, with good health and prosperity. See you all in 2020.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
