Improving your ground system
Electrically conductive cement. Invented around 30 years ago but I suspect forgotten, follow the link to Sankosha website for excellent ground resistance calculators and information on pro-ground systems:
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club
John Rowden
News from sunny Spain
Robert G4RNK , one of our lucky members has returned to his Spanish home where he is “resting” in the sun tasting the local fine wine whilst tending to family business.Robert has a website hosted by qsl.net ( a free…
JOTA callsign update
The logbook on QRZ.com is now active and the first 50 requests to confirm our QSO’s from the Jota weekend at Conygres have been issued to the stations responding to our CQ’s. We have opened an eQSL.cc account and will…
CW on 2m & 70cms
On Saturday the 27th of September 2014 a German CW activity group have organised a very short cw contest on 2m and 70cms, ideal for beginners, straight key only with no computer decoding devices. Note:- Probably Horizontal polarisation. from 1400…
Museum of Internal Fire
Whilst on holiday to the west coast of Wales I set aside some time to visit the Museum of internal fire; from our participation in the Museums On The Air event earlier in the year I knew they had set…