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 up a radio station as they had hosted the museums event on their servers and taken part in the event from the museum. The exhibits are quite incredible featuring enormous engines restored to full working order and running! Exhibits including a 3 mega watt power station driven by a jet engine and donated by Rolls Royce in Bristol.

The radio Station is set up in a wooden Shack surrounded by Antennas put up by the local amateur radio community and I was invited by Lloyd (2W0LLT) to operate the Rohde & Schwarz XK2100L; after some time listening on the 40m band we achieved a QSO with G0VTG near London. The museum website: http://www.internalfire.com.

Radio station details can be found on QRZ.com, search for GB2MOP.

Museum of Fire Radio Shack

The radio Shack also contains some Marconi Racal equipment which they are hoping to restore and work in the coming months. Well worth a visit.

John
M0HFH

The club net will be on Friday @  20:00hrs local.  Starting on the FM calling channel (145.500MHz) then moving to a free channel.

All members are reminded to re-validate their Amateur Radio Licence at the OFCOM website before OFCOM starts to remove licences. Roger M6BUQ will be arranging an evening to assist members with this task. Please bring with you any logon details you have for the OFCOM website.

Paul Smart
M0ZMB

FLDigi and PSK-31

Don’t forget tomorrow night we have a lecture by Paul, M0ZMB, about Data Modes in amateur radio.  So, if you don’t know the difference between PSK, RTTY, Thor or Hellschreiber or your DM-780 from your FLDigi then make sure you come along.

It’s bound to be a fun evening, packed with masses of really cool information!

Andrew
G0RVM

It turns out that our chairman has his own pizza oven – how cool is that? 🙂 Paul was exceedingly kind and invited the club around on Sunday for home made pizza and drinks.

Thanks Paul, it was a great afternoon and I would like to say ‘thank you’ on behalf of the club.

Andrew,
G0RVM

Andrew, G0RVM will be off to Harris in the Outer Hebrides during the first two weeks of August.  He will be operating on HF and will be  happy to work TSGARC members.

He will be operating from:

• IOTA: EU-010
• Loc: IO67mu
• QTH: Horgabost