WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD
THE PAST WEEK
Chris, M0-VUE gave an excellent talk and demonstration of building antenna parts using 3D printing techniques and the Fusion 360 CAD package. Some subjects covered were choice of materials and their properties, consideration of how the printer will construct a part when there’s apparently nothing to support it and methods of putting parts together, including use of Super Glue.
Conditions on 2 metres and 70 cms continued to be favourable last week with French beacons in particular being audible for many hours. VHF Field Day seems to have been popular too, as I worked one French station with a serial number over 400!
JUNK SALE
Please note that the Junk Sale and it starts at 7.30pm and sellers should be able to offload their items from 7.00pm onwards. Once unloaded, please move your vehicle and re-park, under the directions of Norman, 2E0RKO, who will be acting as marshal. Although there are no Silent Key items this time, we have some items that were delivered to us at the last minute, which are listed below. Most of them are NOT cheap items so please bear that in mind and bring well-loaded wallets. Items listed below will have reserves on them. All items appear to be clean and in good working order, although one or two have some very minor surface scratches.
Items for sale:
- MFJ – 259B – HF/VHF SWR Analyser
- Icom IC-7100 – HF/VHF all mode
- Icom ID-5100 – Dual Band D-STAR Mobile
- Avair AV-20T – SWR/Power Meter
- Vertex MLS-100 – Mobile speaker
- Kenwood TS-570D + manual
- Kenwood SP-23 Ext Speaker
- Kenwood TM-G707 – FM Dual Bander
- Icom SM-30 – Desk Mic
- LDG Z-11 Pro II – Tuner
- Yaesu FT-100 – HF/VHF/UHF all mode
- Yaesu FT-7900 R/E + manual
- Kenwood TR-751E – 2 metre multimode
- Yaesu FT-950 – HF transceiver
- Microset 27-200 – 3-30MHz 300W Wideband Linear Amplifier
- Mydel 30A SMPSU
- DX? P530SWII 30A SMPSU
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Junk Sale – Tuesday 9th July – 7.30pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard – Note: Early start time
- Tea and Chat Night – Tuesday 16th July – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Outside Meeting – Chantry Hill – Bring antennas, rigs, and MUG for TEA – Tuesday 23rd July – 7.30pm-9.30pm – Chantry Lane Car Park, Storrington
- Setting up your computer for Omnirig, Log4OM and connecting to a USB radio – Tuesday 30th July – 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/2019/07/05/propagation-news-7-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
We are that time again when donations of biscuits for club meetings would be much appreciated. If you can’t bring some yourself, please ask another member to deliver them for you. For those not aware, there’s a convenience store on the North end of the shopping parade opposite TS Vanguard and they sell biscuits!
73,
Alan. G4GNX
