WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD.
THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday’s meeting was a Tea & Chat with On-Air in the shack. There was some interesting discussion on what members wanted from the club programme and useful info was gleaned from prospective new members.
Graham, G4FNL asked for feedback on the recent special event station – GB5WOR – which was very favourable and there was some discussion on the QSL card, which is a work in progress. If we can get all of the club together, we will try to take a group photo which may appear on the card.
We had a committee meeting last Wednesday. Progress on the new shack was discussed and we’re grateful to Jonathan, G1EXG for volunteering to build a noise cancelling mag-loop antenna to the LZ1AQ design. We’re also requesting a private meeting with Captain Minter, to discuss specific things we want to do, which may require approval. Chris, M0VUE still assembling a new programme of meetings/events for WADARC and is looking for people to give talks.
It’s hoped that we will hold our Annual Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 5th March. We need to know who will be attending so that we can buy sufficient food for the gathering. Please fill in the following Doodle Poll ASAP to indicate that you and any partner will be there: https://doodle.com/poll/q8u4s8rnhn7apyd7
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
- Data Modes Show and Tell – please bring any data projects to show to others – Tuesday 19th February – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Tea and Chat + On-Air with Club Radio – Tuesday 26th February – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Annual Awards with party food, tea and coffee, partners welcome – Tuesday 5th March – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
Further details of meetings will appear here next and on our Website, as the programme evolves.
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
Winter 2018 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/winter-2018-9
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF:
RSGB propagation info can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2019/02/15/propagation-news-17-february-2019/
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
For those who are interested in the new Icom IC-9700 VHF/UHF transceiver, I’ve setup a new group (non-Facebook) for all Radio Amateurs to discuss it. You can subscribe by posting an email to:
IC-9700Users+subscribe@groups.io
73,
Alan. G4GNX
