WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD.
THE PAST WEEK
The program listed last Tuesday’s meeting as an on-air night with CW + tea and chat. The K3 was available and there are plenty of Morse keys in the shack, but nobody seemed interested. Is it that members are really not interested in getting on the air, or is it that everyone wants their hand holding or their arse kicked to actually participate?
Fortunately, Jonathan – G1EXG had brought along one of his antenna projects and was able to explain how it works and the rest of the time was taken up by tea and chat.
The LZ1AQ mag-loop kit has arrived from Bulgaria and work is now in progress to get it built and mounted on the roof at TS Vanguard.
I have also found the SGS 500W external auto-tuner that hid itself in the store. It just needs a bit of an exterior clean, some new cables and it will be ready for us to use with the proposed antenna/s.
One packet of biscuits donated last week (thanks Jonathan) a few more would be appreciated.
The deadline has passed for selling Les Mayhew’s kit to members, so it will now be offered to the general public and dealers. Items are:
- Daiwa CN-801 SWR & Power Meter
- Icom IC-756PRO (usual screen fault, but does light fully after a short ‘warm-up’)
- Icom IC-910H – 144Mhz/432MHz
- Manson EP925 PSU – 13.8V 25A SM
- Mirage MP2 VHF Watt meter
- Yaesu HF suite comprising:
- Yaesu FT2000
- Yaesu Quadra VL1000 linear
- Yaesu Quadra VP1000 (PSU for VL1000)
- Yaesu DMU 2000 data unit
- Yaesu SP2000 speaker
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
- RAF station, Habbaniya, Iraq – Ted, G3EUE – Tuesday 2nd April – 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/2019/03/29/propagation-news-31-march-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
For those interested in the new Icom IC9700 2m/70cm/23cm transceiver, stocks are now being distributed to dealers. Most dealers appear to have taken deposits and are shipping to customers in strict order. More stock will be distributed in mid-April and early May.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
