WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD.
THE PAST WEEK
Thanks to Dorian, 2E0FSI for acting as the Fox in last week’s Fox Hunt. The fox was eventually found, but not until almost 9.30pm when the event was due to close. First to find the Fox were Bodie, 2E0VRM and Chris, M0VUE followed by Ian, M0IAD about a minute later. Also taking part were Roger, G4TNT and Vic, G8MUQ. There were only three of us at the club QTH, listening to proceedings and we were surprised that Ian actually managed to take part, as he was in a loan car which broke down – not a good advert for the garage concerned!
The remainder of the kit that goers with the FT101ZD is now in the shack, but not fully connected as we need to find some manuals. Some of the other ‘junk’ should be removed tomorrow, leaving more space for us to setup our stations. The LZ1AQ mag loop is under construction and if it works as well as mine (it will) much of the HF noise we experience, will be eliminated.
Unfortunately, today I had a call from Bryan, G0SIU to say that he would not be at the club tomorrow, as he is in hospital. Hopefully they won’t need to keep him long and he’ll make a quick and full recovery. Get well soon Bryan.
Tomorrow, (23rd) Chris, M0VUE will be demonstrating FTCALL at the club. If you don’t know what that is, come along and find out.
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
- Tea and Chat with On the Air FTCALL – Tuesday 23rd April – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Practical – Building a Co-Ax based transmitting loop – Tuesday 30th 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/2019/04/18/propagation-news-21-april-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
A reminder to the WADARC Committee that we have a meeting this coming Wednesday (24th) at G7VBR’s QTH. Start time – 7.30pm
73,
Alan. G4GNX
