THE PAST WEEK
Great to see a new edition of Ragchew. Thanks Roger and all of those who contributed. If any member has an item of interest for the next edition, please send it to Roger as soon as possible.
The GWhip antennas parts arrived in good time and I also have some extra large heatshrink sleeving, but I’m just waiting for some 1 inch ferrite cores, so the OSCFD antenna isn’t repaired yet, but hopefully it won’t be long. Having used it again last Thursday on 40m, I’m convinced that something in the antenna structure is getting too hot and changing the tuning, hence the change of SWR which is mostly fixed by a re-tune.
Alastair, M0OAL has setup a Doodle Poll for you to show your interest in some online lectures. This can be found at: https://doodle.com/poll/4yizg5qst7daxtvi 11 of us so far when I last checked. C’mon people, please join in and register your interest (or not).
Please keep on joining in on the club nets. It’s one of our best ways of keeping in touch with each other and helps to promote WADARC activities.
I had a short opportunity to checkout the SDRPlay unit that’s been donated to the Club. Once the software is setup and an antenna attached (I used 20ft of thin wire for HF) the unit gives a good account of itself and it pulls in many signals. I’ve ordered some antenna adaptors for it and as soon as they arrive, it will be going out to the first recipient. If any of you have no RX capabilities right now, please feel free to contact me and be put on the list to try out the SDRPlay.
Stay home – stay safe……………….
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS – All suspended for the time being and replaced by nets. Coming soon – online talks – watch this space.
- Net on GB3WO – Tuesday 28th April – 8.00pm-10.00pm
- Net each evening (Mon-Thurs) on 3.712MHz – 6.00pm onwards
- Net on GB3WO – Tuesday 5th May – 8.00pm-10.00pm
- Net on GB3WO – Tuesday 12th May – 8.00pm-10.00pm
- Net on GB3WO – Tuesday 19th May – 8.00pm-10.00pm
- Net on GB3WO – Tuesday 26th May – 8.00pm-10.00pm
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)
Tuesday – 70cms on GB3WO, FM, 8.00pm (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)
Weekday evenings – 80 metres 3.712 MHz +- QRM, SSB, 6.00pm (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 2019/2020 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/spring-2020
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF
RSGB propagation information can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2020/04/24/propagation-news-26-april-2020/
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=2020
FINALÉ
I thought you might care to consider this:
Fresh cow dung can stop coronavirus
Dip both your hands in fresh cow dung before going out.
This will make sure that:
- You will not touch your eyes, nose, ears, or mouth
- No one will shake hands with you
- No one will come near you when you are out in the streets
- You will wash your hands thoroughly before you eat
Vy 73,
Alan. G4GNX
