Amateur Radio in Mid Warwickshire
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Mid Warwickshire
Amateur Radio Society
Call signs
G3UDN & G6WAR
Repeater frequencies:
145.775 (GB3WK) and 433.250 (GB3MW)
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Open to all with an interest in radio communication. |
Warwickshire Avon RAYNET Group
Raynet details |
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Good-bye from MWARS web pages....For the last month or so visitors to this site were asked for feedback. ANY comments would have been welcome, even just an email saying they had visited the site.
The response was, it has to be said, less than overwhelming, but thanks Rod anyway....
By now the news will have got around that Warwickshire County Council won't provide website hosting for community and voluntary organsations in Warwickshire from 01 April 2010. A pity. But thanks to them for the support thus far, and to those at Co-operative IT. Particular thanks go to Paul Inman, corporate webmaster at the Council, who has always been ready to help. |
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Link of the month: Currently club members are interested in directional RF Power Meters. Here are some relevant websites. First, this looks at issues surrounding the mounting of the toroidal coils used to sample the RF current on the transmission line. A very technical presentation of design considerations is given by N2PK here. Finally (but it really should come first) the classic Bruene article which has guided every constructor since.
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Overheard on two: The 2 metre net was discussing 'rubber stamp' signal reports e.g. those invariably given in HF contests, and often cropping up in regular QSOs as in "You are 5 and 9 but I didn't get your call sign". The net sage (and experienced DX-er) didn't mince his words: "5 and 9 is a way of saying 'get lost'".
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MWARS : The Mid Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society is our local club for radio amateurs - or anyone interested in radio or radio related technology - to practise and learn more about this mode of communication.
We meet on most 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Activities include talks, demonstrations, visits and 'on-air' operating (see diary for forthcoming meetings and events and club profile for some typical examples of current activities and interests. We can help would-be radio amateurs to get the necessary qualifications.
Contact M0JDB for more info.
Meet at the St. John Ambulance headquarters, 61 Emscote Road, Warwick, CV34 5QR. Visitors always welcome, but best to check with the Secretary for beforehand.
To find out more about amateur radio try the web sites listed here.
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Brief summary of the Amateur Radio scene in 2009.
In the UK you don't need a licence to listen to amateur transmissions, but one is required to transmit and so contact other licensed amateurs.
The licence is now free!
A very wide range of different frequencies is allocated for amateur use, from extremely high frequency where contact is limited virtually by line of sight, through 'short wave' bands where intercontinental contact is common, right down to frequencies which are so low that it is difficult to get more than a few milliwatts of power launched from the aerial. There are very many enjoyable technical challenges which can be met by both 'off the shelf' purchased equipment and home-built kit.
To become a licensed UK amateur a short (two weekends') period of study is all that is now required - and the need to take a Morse test has been dropped. (But see below..)
Regarding the new licence qualification requirements, we can help arrange places for novices on the appropriate course.
We have put some pictures on this site to give some flavour of amateur radio in the 21st century: picture gallery
Footnote about Morse Code: Morse and other non-voice modes are not "dead"! If anything, because of the advantages of digital modes of communication, they have a wider following now than at any time in the past 20 years. Your journey of exploration into this very much non-dead mode could start with the American Radio Relay League site. ...... or you could go straight to the ARRL 5 words per minute downloads for your mp3 player. Faster (i.e. 7.5 ,10 and upwards words-per-minute) recordings are available in a graded series
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To find out more, come along and see and talk to us by contacting us via this link .....also see our RSGB members only website here..
Raynet on Fridays and Sundays at 21:40 local time. Frequency 144.650 plus or minus 25 Khz.
Pages created by John Pollard, M0JDB.. |
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Out of sight, but highly functional, this loft antenna is made out of ordinary flex. It is fed via a balun, seen here below the central point of suspension.
It works well enough to contact the world on the 20 metre amateur waveband. |
| Picture credits: Rod (G0FBY) ; Roger (M0RJG) ; Fred Pauling ; Brian (G4DF) |
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Last Updated: 23/11/2009
Last Updated: 27/11/2009
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