We have another operating and social evening this week.

A member will be bringing a morse trainer, the MK4 FMT to demonstrate to those learning morse at the moment.

Several of our club members have been able to receive excellent SSTV images over the weekend from the ISS as it speeds over above our heads.

https://145alive.com/events/11-winter-vhf-simplex-challenge-20262027

Runs 1st October to 1st February.

Points for every VHF simplex QSO logged (upload ADI file at the end), certificate awarded for taking part.

Operating and social evening.

We will be continuing our experimenting with SSTV using mobile phone apps to encode and decode the signals and 2m handhelds to do the RF part. We will be testing some cables which link the phone to a Baofeng to reduce the noise !

SSTV QSOs count towards the RSGB Brickworks awards.

We will be having a JOTA update (Jamboree On The Air). JOTA/JOTI is the world’s largest digital Scout event, held annually on the third full weekend of October. This year it’s on the 17th & 18th October. Our club will be helping Scout groups in Chepstow and Almondsbury. More information can be found here : https://www.jotajoti.info/jota

There is also a talk on Radioactivity with Geiger counter demonstrations on suitable safe sources, all of which you may have in your own home !

Tonight is an operating and social evening. Some members will be using smartphones to encode/decode SSTV images with the sounds being sent over handheld radios on the 2m band. These count towards the RSGB Brickworks awards.

A large number of our members took part in 145 Alive on Sunday the 13th. Two of our members ran a net from Dundry, south of Bristol, 700+ feet above sea level, they reached from North Birmingham to Langford, Cardiff to Swindon. A very good (if rather wet) time was had by all.

At our weekly club meeting on 9th Sept, we had a talk and demonstration on using smartphone apps to encode and decode images for SSTV. These just use the phone’s mic and speaker to send and receive audio via a handheld on 2m FM. No cables were used to connect to the radios, we were just using the radio’s speaker and mic, so no extra equipment was needed other than smartphones and handheld radios.

The field weekend at Berkeley was an outstanding success and was enjoyed by everyone that attended.

We were blessed with excellent weather.

Many thanks to all those involved with organising and running, and to everyone who came.

We have a daily net on GB3ZB repeater (you can also listen on 430.825 Mhz FM) at 10:30-11:00am.

We also have a weekly net on Friday evenings, 20:00 to 21:00, on 145.500 Mhz FM, usually moving to 145.550 if free.

Visitors are very welcome to come and join us !