WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD.
THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday was a ceremony for our annual awards. Not as many people as there should have been, but those who attended had a good time and the food was good. Special thanks to Roger, G7VBR for baking three delicious sponge cakes.
The awards were as follows:
Chairman’s Award to Roger, G7VBR – for great efforts in attending to details for all meetings in 2018.
Winner of 2018 Construction Contest to Les, G3JSU
The G8HY Merit Award to Bryan, G0SIU for services to the WADARC store and equipment
The John Slater Foxhunt Award to winner Dorian, 2E0FSI (collected by Ian, M0IAD on Dorian’s behalf)
WADARC Merit Award to Pete, G4LKW for special efforts with Special Event stations (collected by Norman, 2E0RKO on Pete’s behalf)
WADARC Merit Award to Ed, M0MNG for promotion of WADARC using callsign GX1WOR
WADARC Merit Award to Roger, G4TNT for untiring effort editing Ragchew throughout 2018
WADARC Merit Award to Ian, M0IAD – for services to membership, repeaters and on-air evenings during 2018
N.B. This coming Tuesday, Captain Minter will be visiting so please do not arrive before 7.45pm. I will be holding a private meeting with Paul, so the shack will only be available when the meeting finishes. Apologies for this.
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
Tea and chat – Tuesday 12th March – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
Building and testing LC antenna traps (M0VUE) – Tuesday 19th March – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
Tea and chat with on-air and CW – Tuesday 26th March – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
Sunday Breakfast – Sunday 7th April – 9.00am-10.00am – Morrisons, Worthing
Tea and chat + Shack available – Tuesday 9th April – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
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/2019/03/08/propagation-news-10-march-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
A reminder that the first TWO parking spaces nearest the building MUST be left clear for any disabled person, until 8.00pm
73,
Alan. G4GNX
