This week we have a
special guest, Colin Thomas G3PSM who is President of the RSGB. Colin
is coming to tell us about his role within the society and also answer
questions from the club about the RSGB. As well as the 2009 President
and Chairman of the Board Colin is also RSGB Spectrum & regulatory
Director so will also be able to help us understand more about groups
such as the 5MHz working party and also topical subjects like PLT and
EMC.
Following our success in attaining 4th
position in the 2009 RSGB Club Championship contest series we will hold 2 ‘Getting
started in Contesting’ workshops to help beginners on the 25th
November and 9th December respectively. The success of our position
is very dependent upon the number of logs that we can submit and consistency of
entries, apart from the overall scores. Whilst these contests include
SSB, DATA (psk & rtty), and CW sessions most newcomers can easily enter on
SSB, and possibly DATA, after some basic instruction on the techniques. Therefore
these workshops will be aimed at helping newcomers in particular to understand
the station set-up and operating techniques for participating in such contests.
Thereafter, personal assistance can be made available to help people to get up
and running; which can also initially include visiting the shack of someone
taking part in the contest.
The Club Championship series of contests is run by
RSGB and takes place between January and July on 80m on selected evenings from
2000 to 2130hrs. Each month there are 3 sessions, namely CW, SSB and DATA.
If you would like to learn about contesting
techniques and/or take part in the forthcoming series please come along to
these workshops. Meanwhile contact Malcolm G3PDH or Roger G3LDI for more
information.
There
will be a review and debrief of SSB Field day on Wednesday November
11th hosted by Chris G0TZZ and we would ask everyone who was involved
with SSB FD at the Gala Day this year to come along and say what they
thought of the weekend so we can prepare for next years....
Make sure you keep 16th
December in your diary as our NARC Christmas party night with drinks,
professional entertainer and great food at just £5 per person for
members and their families, all subsidised by the profits from your DX
square competition and our 'canteen'. Booking form coming November
We are in the process of upgrading our webhost, we are
also having a website revamp. What would you like to see on the website
? please email Mark G0LGJ with yur suggestions.
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If
you have a disability and you have any issues or problems with coming
to our venue at CNS school would like to hear from you. If they can
make your time at CNS better for you they would like to know. You can
contact them in two ways, either by e-mail at
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or
by letter. H.Aquarone, Pitstop, City of Norwich School, Norwich NR4
6PP. You do not have to give me your name and they will treat all
contact confidentially. Thank you.
Merv MI0TMW and Chris
M0DOL will both be activating Castles in Northern Ireland for CASHOTA
from October 25th to November 11th under callsigns GN4KPT/P and
EI/GN4KPT/P. They will be on most bands from 80 to 10m, so why not give
them a call?
Morse classes for absolute beginners
have just started. Join in on the air on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
on 145.250 from 20.00 or at the club every Wednesday from 19.15 to
20.00 (also Sundays later in the month). Come on, with HF conditions
getting better and all this free training there's never been a better
time to learn!
Contact Roger
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