Committee 2016

After the AGM on 6th April the elected committee for 2016 is as follows: Chairman – Andrew Gawthorpe G0RVM Vice Chairman – Mike Davies G0JMD Treasurer – Stan Goodwin G0RYM Secretary – Garry Moore G7NVZ Committee Member – Mark Beasley…

Strange problems….

So, for a couple of months I’ve had a growing suspicion that I’m not receiving as well as I am transmitting.  I first noticed the problem when observing the strength of signals from GB3VHF which after one winter storm seemed…

Training Room Activity

Good to see the training room being used last evening. Our latest trainee to go through his practical with John M0HFH. Chance set of photo’s taken whilst I was operating the HF set sat next to them. Good luck to…

Rotor interface

Last year I purchased a pneumatic 11m mast that can support a head load of 35kg.  Currently I use an SPID RAU rotator from AlfaRadio mounted at the top of the mast to rotate antenna’s.  At 6kg the rotor is reasonably…

Steve’s Foundation Test Pass

‘Young’ Steve took and passed his Foundation Exam this Friday evening. Steve  completed the test in 25 minutes with an indicative score of 23 out of 26. Steve now needs to start thinking of a suitable callsign. The test was…

Field Event Planning 2016

As those who were at the programme planning session last week know I rather haphazardly stepped into the planning for this years event!! Know I was really happy to honestly LOL. On a serious note I will be asking for…

HF Propagation talk

Just a quickie to say that the slideware from the HF propagation talk in January this year by Peter, G4OST is now in the Lecture notes section of this website. Andrew G0RVM