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Weekly Bulletin – June 30 2019

WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD

THE PAST WEEK

True to their word, the ‘Foxes’ commenced transmission at 7.30pm from Lancing Clump and were actually heard within TS Vanguard on handhelds. However, propagation was strange as they were not initially heard in areas of Worthing, where better antennas were in use. The foxes were Bodie, 2E0VRM and Chris, M0VUE. ‘Chasers’ were Dorian, 2E0FSI – Ian, M0IAD – Vic,G8MUQ – Roger, G4TNT – Roger, G7VBR. Dorian was the winner of the 2nd leg of the Foxhunt. Possibly due to the new format, all but one found the foxes. Around ten of us listened in at TS Vanguard and met the others for tea afterwards.

Ed, M0MNG reports that 2 metre propagation has been very good from time-to-time and he managed to work PA0 on a very modest beam and low power from Sussex. Although when I checked over the weekend, the French beacons were apparent, ON0VHF/ON0UHF were quite weak. I put out a few CQ calls but nobody answered. This is a really bad state of affairs, especially as the band is under threat from a French conglomerate. Use it or lose it!!!

Please note that NEXT WEEK (9th) is the Junk Sale and it starts at 7.30pm. There are no Silent Key items this time, so we may have a more orderly event, although there may not be as much money for the club. Please see this section in next week’s Bulletin for further details.

CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS

  • Designing and building antenna parts using Fusion 360 with additive and subtractive manufacturing. M0VUE – Tuesday 2nd July – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
  • Sunday Breakfast – Sunday 7th July – 9.00am-10.00am – Morrisons, Worthing
  • Junk Sale – Tuesday 9th July – 7.30pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard – Note: Early start time
  • Setting up your computer for Omnirig, Log4OM and connecting to a USB radio – 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
  • Tea and Chat Night – 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/2019/06/28/propagation-news-30-june-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

If you haven’t seen this link on the Discuss reflector, please take time to read it now, as some Amateur bands are under threat:

http://mailman.pe1itr.com/pipermail/moon-net/2019-June/039773.html

I will lobby the RSGB on behalf of WADARC and myself and I urge all other RSGB members to do the same.

73,

Alan. G4GNX