| | By peterg3pho,on January 10th,2012% 
Kirimati (Christmas Island) in the Central Pacific SARC Member and friends, Just to remind you of next Monday’s (16th January 2012) talk at the club…. Nick Totterdell,G4FAL (and a member of SARC) will be giving an illustrated talk on the world record breaking DXpedition to East Kiribati (Christmas island) which took place last October. Nick was a member of the 40 strong team and has kindly offered to give this talk to our club. It will definitely be a talk to remember. The Dxpedition had its fair share of problems,the major one being the 15 Yaesu transceivers,amps and antennas were . . . →Read More:T32C Dxpedition talk at SARC By M1ERS,on December 22nd,2011%  Here we have a ideal club house this is our vision for 2012. We have all the Help from local companies and we are working with our local Kier Group to try to find a suitable site for our Club. so we can build something like this,or a suitable building for the Club,When we find a site!! we need all our members to pull together and make this Happen,As i think this would the right move for SARC to invest in some thing like this ,move would help the Club Grow and give our members some thing to be proud of,
also . . . →Read More:Vision for SARC By peterg3pho,on December 21st,2011% I’m very saddened to record the deaths of two local amateurs over the recent few days;G0JMU and G4DUP Harry,G0JMU (7Q7HB),of Laughton-en-le Morthen,died a few days ago shortly after returning to our area after some months in Malawi (7Q7). 7Q7HB (G0JMU) fixing some equipment in his Malawi radio shack Harry was a good friend of his neighbour Reggie Green,one of our club members. Every year,he spent several months at Club Makakola on the shores of Lake Malawi. This is a tourist hotel complex and Harry went down there every year to keep the place running,fixing the generators and other plant which inevitably . . . →Read More:Silent keys at Christmas By M6KSH,on December 13th,2011%  In presenting Echolink and IRLP as technologies of amateur radio,as something which is a part of the advancement of the hobby,it is useful to have a better understanding of what it actually is,and to also open the discussion as to why Radio Amateurs should use it.
Both Echolink and IRLP are systems that use voice over internet protocols (VOIP). They were actually here with us in use at least for the last ten years and well before the onset of programs such as Skype and ovoo. It is important to appreciate that Echolink and IRLP are in essence,innovative advancements in amateur radio. D-Star . . . →Read More:Echolink –is it REAL radio? By M1ERS,on December 5th,2011% Hi to all As Chairman myself and the Committee would like to wish all our members and visitors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy new year,I would like to take this opportunity to ask you all to take a moment just to sit back and think where you would like to see your Club in 2012,He is my vision with your help,we can move the club forward into 2012 with our own club HQ,New training rooms,our own tower,New antenna System,We have been working very hard with Sheffield city council for some where we can call our own, Things are looking Good,If we can achieve this goal,it would give the Club the . . . →Read More:SARC 2012 By peterg3pho,on December 1st,2011%  The club meeting on Monday 9th January is a new event,the SARC QSL Competition. The rules are simple…. just bring along your QSL card (or a design for one you are going to print) and display it on the pin board provided at the club. A couple of judges will then take a look and make a judgement on who is the winner and runner up. Certificates will be awarded to both successful exhibitors. The QSL MUST be your own personal one,not one you have received from a station worked on the amateur radio bands  If you don’t yet have a QSL card why not try the software at: http://www.va3hj.ca/ By peterg3pho,on December 1st,2011% Congratulations to our newest FL licensee passes,Adam Jones M6BGJ and Lewis Allcock M6LSA,both of whom took the exam at the club HQ just a weekend and a half ago. It’s good to see more young people take up Amateur Radio as its continued existence will depend on them,long after the rest of us Old Timers have gone to the “Big Dxpedition in the Sky”! Adam is in his 20s while Lewis is 14 years old. The club wishes both these new radio amateurs many years of enjoyment in what must be the world’s greatest hobby. Do give them a call when you hear them on the air. By peterg3pho,on November 25th,2011% CLICK HERE to see a short video of September’s SSB Field Day. The camera batteries ran out before we could shoot some more! By peterg3pho,on November 18th,2011% If you didnt work T32C then you’ll know how this bloke felt! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvCMT1wxWMg&feature=related By peterg3pho,on November 5th,2011% Click on this link for a remarkable introduction to the world of microwave dish antennas! DISH By peterg3pho,on October 20th,2011% David,M0EQD and myself spent this morning at the club HQ and finally got rid of the TVI problem that has prevented us from using the shack for over a year. In the end it turned out to be an old terrestrial antenna that was still plugged into the Sports Club DVD player and then looped into the Sky box. We tried filters on all coax leads at first and reduced the TVI a little but not enough to satisfy us. Taking out the TV antenna downlead solved the problem as it was the culprit that was picking up our RF and carrying it down to the Sky Box a couple of hundred feet away. The TV antenna is not . . . →Read More:TVI at the Club …cured! By M1ERS,on October 16th,2011% 
Hi to all,Here is a Digital Photo I received on 20m from a station in Brazil,PY4BL. ( ARNALDO ) Also I talk to a Group of Amateurs in the USA,Dave,Harry,John, and I have received a lot of good photos from them,while I am in my Radio Shack with a Cup of Tea chatting away Hi. If you would like to know how to work digital,please ask me at the club (Steve M1ERS) and I will do a demo for you all. By peterg3pho,on September 24th,2011% The results of this year’s VHF NFD have just been published on the RSGB VHF COntest website at:http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/results/11/VHFNFD.html Visit the site (scrolling down past the green text block) and look for our callsign,G2AS/P in the following tables:Overall Result:Mix and Match Section:7th out of 12 entries 50MHz (Restricted Section):11th out of 27 entries 144MHz (Open Section):16th out of 21 entries 432MHz (Restricted Section):7th out of 15 entries 1296MHz (Low Power Section):3rd out of 5 entries In regard to the scoring,the following table shows the percentage reduction of contacts and points after the logs had been adjudicated. A good score would be less than 5% loss over the claimed entry . . . →Read More:VHF NFD RESULTS 2011 By peterg3pho,on September 6th,2011% 
M0GAV operates G2AS/P in SSB FD Sept 2011 Those of you who did not manage to get to SARC’s SSB field day station last weekend missed a really good time. In spite of being short of 4 operators and having a generator failure just 7 minutes before the start of the contest (!),we managed 203,184 points (including 102 DXCC multipliers) from 452 QSOs. This is over twice last year’s score from the same location and should put us in the top ten! We had only four experienced contesters on hand (G0HSA,G3PHO,M0GAV on HF and G8EQD on VHF) …not . . . →Read More:SARC enters G2AS/P in RSGB SSB Field Day:3-4 September 2011 By peterg3pho,on September 6th,2011% G2AS/P entered the UK Microwave Group’s first Microwave Field Day on August 7th and the results which have just been published show us in certificate winning positions! 23cm:SECOND POSITION 10GHz:THIRD POSITION OVERALL:SECOND. The winners in all three sections shown above were the GM3SEK/P group operating from IO74 in Galloway,SW Scotland. Our certificates will be presented next April at UK Microwave Group annual convention at Martlesham. Well done folks and in particular well done to Ken M6KJP who had a hand in G2AS/P working the Scottish station. By peterg3pho,on August 30th,2011% 
Kirimati (Christmas Island) in the Central Pacific SARC members were kind enough to support CDXC in their efforts to raise money for the forthcomingT32C DXpedition to East Kiribati by making individual purchases of raffle tickets through the club secretary (himself a member of CDXC) and the club as a body purchasing some 20 tickets, all in the hope of winning the excellent FT950 transceiver prize! However, with some 4000 tickets sold in total, anyone’s chances were sure to be much less than it raining on Field Day! At the foot of this post is the result of the draw made . . . →Read More:SARC HELPS MAJOR DXPEDITION By peterg3pho,on August 30th,2011%  We did it! The meeting of the 29 August including the presentation of SARC Achievement Awards to the recent successful FL candidates. Visit our PHOTO section and scroll down to album 31 for more information and loads of photos or click here. It’s very heartening for some of the Old Timers in SARC to see a number of young people coming into our hobby and gaining their first licence through our club training scheme. Well done to them and to their trainers! ( Just a word from the Chairman … I would like to . . . →Read More:Foundation Licence Passes:August 2011 By peterg3pho,on August 23rd,2011% MICROWAVE FIELD DAY 2011 REPORT FROM G2AS/P  On Sunday 7 August 2011,Sheffield Amateur Radio Club fielded a 23cm and 3cm narrowband station,plus a 3cm wideband FM station for this event,organised by the UK Microwave Group. The latter was at the request of several UKuG members. The weather was changeable with a stiff,cold breeze and occasional rain showers. Our chosen site was Merryton Low Triangle,IO93AD,NE of Leek in Staffordshire. Outside the occasional club lecture by G3PHO,Sheffield ARC members had not experienced microwave radio before this event so it was good to see the following club . . . →Read More:G2AS/P in the First UK Microwave Field Day By peterg3pho,on August 19th,2011% The results of the RSGB 80m CC 2011 have just been announced and SARC have finished 22nd out of some 91 clubs in the final league table. This is a particularly good effort as the numbers of SARC members taking part this year was considerably down on previous years,the bulk of the points being scored by the “regulars”G0HSA,G3PHO,G4FAL,M0GAV and M0JMO. Mention must be made of G6DCT who,with low power and a simple antenna did some sterling work in the datamodes section. The full results table can be found at: http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/results/2011/80mcc2011.shtml This cumulative contest takes place each month from January to July on the first Monday,second Wednesday and the third Thursday of each month. . . . →Read More:SARC finish in top 25% of Clubs in 2011 RSGB 80m Club Contest series By M1ERS,on May 23rd,2011%  Hi to all … I am pleased to see a lot of positive things going on at our web site, from people /members putting up projects that they would like to get involved in. It would be nice to see more things like this happen within the club. As the Chairman of SARC,with the rest of the Committee,we are here to help “You the members”to move the Club in the Direction you would like to see the Club go. If it were not for you ( the Members ) then there would be no Club. I can see this being a good move forward . . . →Read More:A Note of Thanks
| |
