Following our success in attaining 4^th position in the 2009 RSGB Club Championship contest series we will hold 2 ‘Getting started in Contesting’ workshops to help beginners on the 25^th November and 9^th 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.