THE PAST WEEK
I’m pleased to say that a goodly number of members turned out for the AGM last Tuesday. The Constitution was updated and you can find the amended current Constitution at: http://www.wadarc.org.uk/about/constitution
The officers and committee for 2019/2020 can be viewed at: http://www.wadarc.org.uk/about/committee
Next Tuesday’s meeting is listed as Tea and Chat and Bryan, G0SIU will be running a station from the club shack. All are welcome to join in.
The 2nd Junk Sale Surplus Equipment Sale will be on Tuesday 12th November and other clubs have been invited, so hopefully there will be plenty of bargains. Graham, G8BZL has agreed to be our auctioneer.
In case you haven’t seen the recent announcement about the Christmas Party – we will be at the Casa Ciro Restaurant. 30-31 Marine Parade, Worthing. BN11 3PT. We have their upstairs room. The Club will be paying for members’ (only) meals. Please use the Doodle Poll here: https://doodle.com/poll/4dfzhc5pth2ifkzf to indicate that you’ll be attending. Member’s partners/guests will also be welcome.
Please consider helping out at the Worthing Remembrance Parade next Sunday (10th). More marshals are still needed. Contact Alastair, M0OAL.
CLUB MEETINGS AND EVENTS
Tea and Chat Night – 5th November – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
Surplus Equipment Sale – 12th November – 8.00pm-10.00pm – TS Vanguard
ICQ Podcast – Grow, Merge or Disband your Amateur Radio Club! + discussion – 19th November – 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
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/2019/11/1/propagation-news-3-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
The Farnham SDR was mentioned at a recent club talk and I decided to set it up on my shack PC to find out what could be heard. I started off with 2 metres SSB and transmitted from home, not expecting much to happen. Imagine my surprise upon hearing my own signal at S5, despite there being a big lump of chalk in the way and quite a few miles between antennas. This is going to prove a useful indicator of propagation, as well as the beacons. Farnham SDR can be found at: http://farnham-sdr.com
There’s a useful setup guide and if you run into issues getting sound to work, please read the guide – the suggestions do work!
73,
Alan. G4GNX
