Vintage video evening

Ever heard of Hackaday.com?  Nope I hadn’t either so last night was ‘special’ 😉 Paul, M0ZMB, showed some decidedly old video’s from the website.  The first couple were about Philips A63-11X cathode ray tube manufacture. These were followed by a short…

TSGARC 2017 Meets

I have cancelled our room booking at the Chantry for the following dates: 1st Wednesday June 2017 (Foxhunt) 1st Wednesday July 2017 (Foxhunt) 27th December 2016 (Christmas week). Perhaps members would like to have a Christmas meal again this year as we did…

Coax notch filters by G0GDU

A problem we have experienced on several field days is that transmitted RF from a transmitter overpowers a nearby receiver despite it being on a different HF band or even on a more distant part of the spectrum. Band pass filters…

Electromagnetic Field 2016

As some of you may be aware, last weekend I went to Guildford to attend this year’s EMF camp. Electromagnetic Field is a camping festival geared towards hackers and makers. The weekend is filled with interesting talks, demonstrations and crazy…

Belated Contact

Folks rather belatedly I have to announce a rather interesting contact made last Weds evening when it appears an uplift (or what was perhaps left of it that day) on 2M meant I could make a successful contact from a…

Why SDR?

Tomorrow Andrew, G0RVM, is giving a talk on Software Defined Radio.  It is a overview of the benefits of SDR when compared to our cherished black-box radio’s. It is the first talk in a series that explores this exciting topic in…