John Rowden

John Rowden

80m ARDF testing Tonight

Weather is not great for this event however the Mundy playing fields has a car park. The 5 watt Transmitter will be operating from 19.00 hrs this evening, 3.568mhz CW and can be received in Alveston at 599 so try…

Chirp and Drift

The Fists CW club have some competitions (NOT CONTESTS)  organised for the bank holiday week and weekends 22nd to 27th of May. www. If you have a vintage radio and would like to Chirp and Drift or warm it up…

2m ARDF Practise Night 25/07/2018

This evening two beacons will be operating from 19.30pm to enable testing of 2m ARDF equipment for the Pedestrian fox hunt on the 1 Beacon 1 will be low power < 0.5 watts from the Chantry Gardens Frequency 144.525 mode…

2m Mobile Fox Hunt Test Beacon

Today 4th and tomorrow 5th  June 2018 between 19.00 hrs and 21.00 hrs at a  frequency of 144.450 Mhz I will be have a propagation beacon running at 5 watts CW QRS < 10wpm The message is repeated at less…

Club Dipole – WSPR To the Antarctic 13597 km

In preparation for tonight’s talk on WSPR experiments, the club antenna has been transmitting at 200mw (20dbm) so that live data from DX explorer is available. Band conditions during the early hours were good and a signal was received by…