| | 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 M1ERS,on December 20th,2011% The competition that Jonathan M3VVV held on the GB3US repeater on the 18th ,Our lucky winner was Peter 2E0BFZ ,Jonathan is thinking of doing more in the New year so all get your Hand held’s out and take a listen see if you can Win,All you need to Do is check in with your Call and Name,and you may be a lucky winner,there is a chance of winning a 2/70cms Hand held !!! Thanks to all that took part ,and called in !! In the new year it would be nice to get a HF net set up so our new and old Members can do a little Dx as well,we can talk . . . →Read More:Competition on GB3US 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 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 peterg3pho,on October 19th,2011% SARC entered the RSGB SSB Field Day in early September this year and set up a 100 watt + single wire antenna (windom) station for the Restricted Section. The results are now published and we have done very well considering the lack of experienced operators and helpers over the weekend. We finished 10th out of 30 entries,doubling our score from last year. The results can be found at: http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/results/2011/ssbfd2011.shtml LATE FLASH! I’ve just compared the adjudicated score with our actual entry. We claimed 450 scoring contacts with 102 multipliers for 203,184 points. RSGB have credited us for 435 QSOs with 100 multipliers for 193,000 points. That means we lost only 3.3% of our . . . →Read More:SSB Field Day Results 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 October 11th,2011% To all SARC members and friends… Just a reminder that next Monday evening,Oct 17th,is the evening when some of our members receive trophies and certificates for their efforts in the past club year. The list may include you!  Please come along and enjoy the evening. Free food (sandwiches and other tasty goodies) will be available from around 9pm and the Sports Club bar will the open for any drinks you might like to purchase.Hopefully,as with last year,we may have a short video or slide show of club events. 73,Peter,G3PHO,SARC Secretary, on behalf of the Chairman,M1ERS By M6KSH,on October 7th,2011%  There is a lot of talk within the club about use of SSB and AM becoming legal on 11 metres,with some club members beleiving the band is already legal for use from October 2011. This is not correct information…!!
I have discussed this with ofcom on the telephone who have clarified that these are ‘Proposals’. The proposals were agreed at an ECC meeting that took place in June 2010;the report from that meeting can be accessed by clicking here In this document,it clearly states that “There have been proposals to permit 4W AM and 12W SSB modulation in addition to the existing 4W FM. This . . . →Read More:Proposals for 11 Metre AM/SSB By M0TWS,on October 2nd,2011% Well for those of you who went to the rally,the weather was superb for this time of the year. Myself Trevor M0TWS,Connie KB0ZSG and Steve M1ERS,went down on the Friday 30/09/2011 in Steves RV. Here is a photo:L to R, Steve SARC Chairman and Connie KB0ZSG,RSGB President Dave Wilson At the hamfest. 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 | |
