WADARC meets at – TS Vanguard, 9a Broadwater Road, Worthing. BN14 8AD.
THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday, most members present took part in a practical evening, run by Chris, M0VUE which involved building HF transmitting loop antennas. This was a great success for all concerned, especially as the antennas actually worked!
Bryan, G0SIU and Graham, G8BZL had a discussion about the club shack and formed a plan of action to get started on re-building the shack and securing equipment. This will also involve replacing some of the poles, which support current antennas, as well as replacing the lanyards. We will be approaching the Sea Cadets to ask if they would mind us storing the FT101 series of equipment and maybe installing them at a later date if required. We will also be asking to install a suitable SDR, so that the Sea Cadets can explore all bands.
The committee also met last Wednesday with a very full agenda. Of immediate interest to some members, we have purchased a new (at a very favourable knock-down price) Icom Desk Microphone for use with the club’s IC-7300 and one of our members has purchased and donated an Icom IC-910 all-mode transceiver for VHF/UHF. Please note that this particular rig does not contain the 23cms module. We will be looking to install suitable antennas for VHF/UHF in due course.
Whilst Chris’ team were testing out antennas last week, they also discovered a source of RF noise, emanating from the sensor loop that feeds the fire alarm. We will be approaching Captain Minter to see what can be done about this.
CLUB MEETINGS & EVENTS
- Talk and Demo of the new Icom IC-9700 transceiver, G4GNX – Tuesday 7th May – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Talk – Public Safety Communications Past and Present, G3ZPS – Tuesday 14th May – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- On the Air with Computers plus Tea and Chat – Tuesday 21st May – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Tea and Chat evening (this may change) – Tuesday 28th May – 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/2019/05/03/propagation-news-5-may-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
Summer is fast approaching and it usually heralds the season for meeting outside, perhaps on local hillsides. Please let Chris, M0VUE or the committee know of any particular place you’d like to meet for an outside event. Preferably not an RF black hole!
73,
Alan. G4GNX
