WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD
THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday’s meeting on Chantry Hill was quite well attended for an outdoor event. Fortunately it turned out to be a fine evening and with a slight breeze, it wasn’t too hot. Several stations were setup, with various antennas on several bands and Ed, M0MNG reported some VHF/UHF DX with contacts in Milton Keynes and Southampton, amongst others.
Chris, M0VUE had a small problem with RF getting back into his IC7100 on 80 metres, but fortunately he’d brought a spare choke, which was easily connected and acted as a braid breaker, which cured that issue.
Thanks to Roger, G7VBR for providing tea, coffee and cake to keep our inner persons going.
Congratulations to one of our newer members, Andy who now sports his new callsign M7AJW and is now working towards his Intermediate licence.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Setting up your computer for Omnirig, Log4OM and connecting to a USB radio, M0VUE – Tuesday 30th July – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Tea and Chat – Tuesday 6th August – 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
Spring 2019 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/spring-2019
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF
RSGB propagation information can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2019/07/26/propagation-news-28-july-2019/
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=2019
FINALÉ
Last week’s meeting just goes to prove that there is activity on 2 metres and 70cms. A couple of our members put out calls on the FM calling channels and received quick replies. It’s also well worth using SSB on the appropriate calling frequencies, even if beacons can’t be heard.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
