WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD
THE PAST WEEK
What a great talk that was by Jonathan, G4KLX on the QO-100 satellite setup, last Tuesday. Very informative, with physical examples which seemed to hold the interest of those present and spur some of us on to dip our toes in the water and have a go. I’m hoping that we can erect a satellite dish, with appropriate gear in the Club Shack, by way of a club project.
GB3WO’s original hardware has given us problems and some (now obsolete) FETs are being sought to effect a repair. In the meantime, Ian – M0IAD has worked hard to get the repeater back on the air and has installed a Yaesu derived set of hardware, which is now running on low power. The original logic was not transferred, so there are some small limitations in the way the repeater works. The callsign ident is still transmitted as usual, albeit slightly slower than previously and with tone at a different pitch. When users drop carrier, there is no customary ‘K’, but there is sufficient carrier to trip the user’s squelch, so you will hear the repeater drop carrier, which is your invitation to transmit. Anyone breaking in, should do so immediately after the last user drops carrier. Actually it’s just like using simplex and is very easy to grasp.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Talk on the life of Charles Wheatsone by Ray, G4XUZ – 1st October – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Annual Quiz – All Welcome – bring brains – 8th October – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Tea and Chat Night – 15th October – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Annual Construction Contest – 22nd October – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Annual General Meeting – 29th October – 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/2019/09/27/propagation-news-29-september-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:
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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
Moonraker are awarding prizes for their “Worked all Postcodes” competition. A suggestion has been made that Wednesday evenings can be used for this on 2 metres SSB. Visit the Moonraker website for further details and rules.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
