THE PAST WEEK
Last Tuesday’s Junk Sale was not as well attended as expected, despite us informing several other clubs about it. Those who did attend managed to bag a few interesting bargains and Graham, G8BZL was kept busy auctioneering and keeping us entertained. Thanks Graham.
The Christmas Party Doodle Poll has now closed. Thanks to all 24 people who have taken part. The club has paid deposits for everyone and you’ll be contacted soon to choose from the menu, which was sent out a couple of weeks ago. For anyone who has missed the deadline and still wishes to attend, you may be able to make a private booking by contacting the restaurant directly, but knowing that the restaurant set the deadline (not WADARC) this seems a little doubtful.
Donations of raffle prizes for the Christmas Party will be gratefully received. Please contact any committee member with you donation. Ron, G3SKI and son are making a special cake for the occasion. Going on past years, this is a treat to look forward to.
There will be a committee meeting on 27th November, where a future programme of events for the year will be the main priority for discussion. If you have a particular topic you’d like to see covered, please let me know ASAP. Offers of lectures, demos, Amateur Radio related videos will be most welcome.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- ICQ Podcast – Grow, Merge or Disband your Amateur Radio Club! + discussion – 19th November – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
- Tea and Chat – 26th November – 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/2019/11/15/propagation-news-17-november-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
Our stock of biscuits for club meetings is starting to get depleted. Any donations of biscuits will be welcome. Just bring them along to any club meeting.
73,
Alan. G4GNX
