THE PAST WEEK
In preparation for this week’s meeting, last Tuesday we went through the KPA500 Kit Installation Manual, piece by piece on the projector screen. From comments, some members hadn’t realised what might be involved and were pleasantly surprised. Hopefully this week there will be a good attendance of those wanting to do some hands-on installation and those who just want to watch.
Spaceweather.com reports “A ‘RADIO-ACTIVE’ SUNSPOT FROM THE NEXT SOLAR CYCLE: A new sunspot is emerging in the sun’s southern hemisphere. Its magnetic polarity identifies it as a member of new Solar Cycle 25. Although the spot is relatively small, it is also dynamic, and has produced one of the first loud shortwave radio bursts of the new solar cycle”. Let’s hope that this really is the start of an upward trend in better HF propagation.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Construction Night – Building Elecraft KPA500 Kit – Tuesday 10th March – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Podcast or Video – TBA – Tuesday 17th March – 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
Winter 2019/2020 edition published – http://www.wadarc.org.uk/ragchew/winter-2019-2020
PROPAGATION
HF and VHF
RSGB propagation information can be found by following this link: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2020/03/06/propagation-news-8-march-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 expect that most of us are fed-up with the media scaremongering and miss-reporting of the Corona virus. That said, we should follow good advice and wash our hands frequently. If the situation does worsen, we make a decision not to meet for a while, but that has not happened yet and hopefully won’t. We’ll keep you informed via this bulletin and the WADARC website – http://www.wadarc.org.uk
73,
Alan. G4GNX
