{"id":2254,"date":"2016-07-07T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2016-07-07T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:11:07","slug":"thornbury-carnival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsgarc.uk\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"Thornbury Carnival 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jane<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2nd of July was the date of the Thornbury Carnival<\/a> and what a glorious day it was. \u00a0Hot and sunny. \u00a0Thanks to those who helped with the organisation, who provided equipment, who got equipment to\/from the site and to those that manned our tent through the long day.<\/p>\n

We where\u00a0allocated a prominent position slightly down the hill from the entrance\/exit so there were lots of people passing and quite a few stopped by to see us. \u00a0Although the pitch was in a good position for passing traffic, it was in a very noisy position, not far from a music stage and had a\u00a0children’s inflatable play ‘thing’ next door. \u00a0The latter had\u00a0an acoustically noisy generator running the whole day which, at times, made hearing the radio’s hard.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>All-in tho, it was a good day. \u00a0We handed-out many flyer’s advertising the club and had at least one person promise to come to the club. \u00a0Jane and Sue did an excellent job at arresting our local Police, telling them about Amateur radio and getting a promise of a lecture….<\/p>\n

The real test of success will be how many potential members come and see us over the next few weeks. \u00a0But even if its none, I believe it a worthwhile exercise as it helped communicate Amateur radio to the general public, raise our profile within the community and has most likely secured us a talk.<\/p>\n

\"Garry,<\/a>Lashing a pole to an in-situ climbing frame and another to my truck we managed to get a dipole for 20m operational and made several contacts across Europe. We also had a short ‘white stick’ antenna for 2m and 70cms which allowed us to communicate\u00a0with members not attending the site during the day. \u00a0Peter assembled 10 x SDR radio kits to sell to interested visitors and sold 5, including 1 to Mark ;-).<\/p>\n

Thanks again folks,<\/p>\n

Andrew
\nG0RVM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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