THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday’s talk on Flex, by Phil G4UDU proved to be very interesting and informative. It does seem that SDR is the way that Amateur Radio is going, although preceding radios are not dead yet. The audience number was improved over previous weeks (around 20 people) although those who didn’t bother to turn up missed a darned good talk and subsequent discussion.
The South Coast 4 metre net (NOT a WADARC net) has moved its start time to 7.30pm every Friday on 70.400MHz FM. Quite a popular net. Look out for net controller G8XRX.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Practical Evening – Installing and setting up Log4OM version 2 – Tuesday 28th January – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Tea and Chat evening – Tuesday 4th February – 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
Winter 2019/2020 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/winter-2019-2020
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF
RSGB propagation information can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2020/01/24/propagation-news-26-january-2020/
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=2020
FINALÉ
I recently had a very favourable report of a cheap vector analyser – the NanoVNA, available via eBay. This one covers up to 1296MHz (although the official spec is only 900MHz) making it suitable for 23cms and below. At 1 penny under £30, it’s worth considering. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NanoVna-50KHz-900MHz-Vector-Network-Analyzer-UHF-VNA-UV-VHF-Antenna-Analyze-C8R8/401915858705?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
73,
Alan. G4GNX
