Archive for April, 2021
News for Northern Ireland – 18 April 2021
Antrim and District Amateur Radio Club activates GB2CW on Tuesdays from 7pm on 145.250MHz FM. This is ideal for anyone interested in learning Morse, or wanting to brush up their CW skills. All are welcome to call in. Transmissions are from Co Down, covering greater Belfast and surrounding areas. It’s good fun and the sessions […]
News for Scotland – 18 April 2021
Now the listing of all known nets in Scotland, collated by RSGB Regional Rep Tony, MM0TMZ in association with Jack, GM4COX and the West of Scotland ARS and published here West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society has a daily net from 11am on 145.425MHz. Wednesday sees a net from 8pm on 433.425MHz and on Friday […]
News for England South-East – 18 April 2021
Hastings Electronics and Radio Club has daily nets from 10am on 144.575MHz, plus twice-weekly Zoom nights. Monday sees a CW net from 8pm on 3.563MHz. herc.hastings@gmail.com Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society has a CW net on Sundays from 8pm on 144.060MHz. On Monday there’s a Morse class from 7.30pm around 3542kHz, followed at 8.15pm by GB2CW […]
News for England South-West – 18 April 2021
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire ARC has a daily net on GB3ZB from 10.30am. Wednesday sees a Zoom meeting from 8pm, or at the Chantry if possible. On Friday there’s a net on 145.450MHz from 8pm. For details, email secretary@tsgarc.uk Weston Super Mare Radio Society has a Discord meeting on Monday. The club net via GB3WB […]
News for Wales – 18 April 2021
There has been a problem with the GB3CM repeater in Wales for a few weeks now. Now the Covid-19 travel restrictions have been lifted, the technical team has visited. They found an ongoing fault condition associated with the aerial. Whilst GB3CM is now back on air, it is operating with lower-than-normal transmitter power output, which […]
Latest Tonight @ 8 streamed live
The Tonight @ 8 spring programme continued on the evening of 12 April 2021 with Alan Wolke, W2AEW giving an introduction to what VNA is, the fundamentals of VNA operation and terminology, and what it’s good for. He goes into the NanoVNA specifically—a bit about the design, calibration, operation and typical use cases—and then discusses […]
