WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD.
THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday saw a good turnout. The meeting was mostly about digital modes and new member Jonathan very ably demonstrated many of the modules that are available for all digital modes. Norman also demonstrated use of rig and PC, whilst Bryan was getting to grips with hooking up his laptop and KX3.
Next Tuesday will be an on-the-air night with tea and chat. We will be testing out the capabilities of Graham, G8BZL’s TS850S.
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 Please do this by next Wednesday 27th February. If your name isn’t on the list, you can still come to the meeting but there will be no food for you.
We are going to move the club reflectors soon. They will be moving to groups.io and appropriate addresses have already been reserved. All members who are subscribed to the current reflectors will be moved to the new system. If you don’t want to be included, please let me know ASAP. Once we have moved, we’ll let all members know of the new email addresses for you to send and receive. There should be no disruption to normal service and you should find the new reflectors much more reliable.
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
Tea and Chat + On-Air with G8BZL’s Kenwood TS850S – 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/2019/02/22/propagation-news-24-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
Final reminder – please try to attend the Awards Evening on 5th March and please put your name down on the Doodle Poll if you’ve not already done so.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
