Field Event Planning 2016

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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 volunteers who may want to enlist their help and support on the event which we are considering is 2 instead of  3 days as was last year. Current dates set are 30th April – 2nd May and over the weekend we will  be hoping to run a club equipment test day and still to be decided perhaps a personal equipment day?

We have new members amongst us since last years event. I am particularly keen to enlist them if I may and perhaps we can discuss your thoughts and what you feel you would like to be experimenting with.

For now then if can ask anyone interested in helping on the day, staying over the weekend and/or coming to specific theme if it were to run to post their thoughts to this page and more importantly their project request/s that they feel we should explore over the weekend. I am keen to make this a clear themed event this year e.g. frequency, band/s, antenna type, radio type, home brew etc etc.

We have some On Air Nights coming up so I intend to enlist a few people to help so be prepared to be volunteered!

See you all on Weds.

Mark M6KMJ

 

 

Radio restoration

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Vintage radio restorationA big thank you to Mike M1DPB for a fascinating talk about restoring vintage radio’s last night.

For those that could not attend, Mike brought along a couple of radio’s, pictured below, and presented the restoration steps he had taken plus described many of the pit-falls to watch-out for when reapplying power after many years.

There is something about the smell of old radio’s, its unique. It cannot be described; yet we can all identify it and it triggers memories from years ago 🙂

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The slideware from the presentation will soon be appearing in the Lecture notes section of the website.  The slides detail many of the steps which Mike discussed in his talk.

Andrew
G0RVM

Vintage radio’s

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A few weeks ago I was handed two images by Stan (G3RYM).  They show some vintage radios being displayed at a TSGARC meeting.  The gentleman in the purple top is Mike M1DPB.

If you can provide any further information such as photograph date or location that would be great.  It would also be really helpful if anyone can identify the radio’s.  Either let me know directly or by replying to this post.
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Andrew
G0RVM

Propagation forecast tools

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Many thanks to Peter (and his able assistants) for the informative presentation on ‘Propagation Forecasts’ this past Wednesday, I found it fascinating and very useful.

On a related note I happened to stumble across the following news on the RSGB website:

The RSGB Propagation Studies Committee has begun work on a new web HF propagation prediction service. It will feature both area coverage predictions as well as point-to-point on-demand predictions. Presently, only area coverage has been completed and this can be seen at www.predtest.uk. This will soon be followed by the P2P predictions. It is planned that following these trials the RSGB website will host the predictions. Comments and suggestions are invited by Gwyn Williams, G4FKH via email to g4fkh@sky.com.

The site itself (screenshot at the top of this post) also mentions that the Python source code behind the new tool is open source and available on GitHub.

Please share your own propagation tools with us in the comments below 🙂

Harwell Radio & Electronics Rally

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Sunday 14th February is the Harwell radio rally. Some of our members have been and greatly enjoyed it in the past.  It’s in Didcot which is not too far out of our patch.  I’m sure if there is sufficient interest we can turn it into a club outing…  Anyone interested?  Login and vote by leaving a reply to this post.

Further details can be found about the rally at: http://www.ntay.com/hars/rally_pre.html

Andrew
G0RVM