QUAlite no 44 - November 2022

QUA

Written and compiled by SRS members, ‘QUA’ (Have you news of… ?) is your source of news, views and informed opinion on all matters relating to and informed opinion on all matters relating to and about your hobby.

September

Following on from our "digital month" in August, September was designated "construction month" with several activities aimed at those members wishing to turn their hands to building something. Kicking off with some YouTube videos during our online session the month ended with the traditional "burnt fingers" evening where several kits obtained by Tony M0SAV for the occasion were constructed and put to the test.

of Peter G8BCG's exploits in Cornwall both from his home QTH and when assisting the special event station GB2LD at the Lizard Wireless Station. Carsten G0SYP has also turned his attention to the satellite and has developed a fully working station which he was happy to demonstrate to those gathered at Walthew House. We are pleased to confirm Carsten will be making a return trip to Walthew House in December, a meeting which will also be available by Webex.

After a break in August, our Sunday practical meeting returned in September with recent licensee Stephen M7FTC (now 2E0SUG) mentored by Evan M0TJU taking the opportunity to familiarise himself and make a few contactswithour new IC7610. At the sametime, others using kit brought along by Phil M0HNJ were checking reception of the QO 100 satellite in preparation for a winter project to add access to the popular satellite to our club station and outdoor events setup.

The popularity of the QO 100 satellite is growing particularly amongst ourmembers. Many will be aware

September saw our contesters receive some good news with the results of several events announced. First off the mark was National Field Day (NFD) where G5O/P achieved 2nd place in the "low power assisted" category. Hot on its heels were the results of the CQ WPX SSB and RSGB IOTA Contests where once again good high placings had been achieved. Please visit the contest section of our website for more information.

October

Into October and there were several eagerly awaited activities the first being the RSGB's Convention where our very own Ian M0RNH received the G5RP award, an

Neil’s Bluetooth speaker.

Looking back, what's happened this Autumn at SRS.

annual award by the Radio Society of Great Britain to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. It was donated by members of the Vale of White Horse ARS in south Oxfordshire in memory of their late chairman Ted Wake, G5RP.

channel. Rumours have it that the intrepid three already have plans for 2023, so watch this space.

The evening also served as our first "hybrid" event allowing members to join in online as well as at our Walthew House HQ. The system has been repeated on several occasions since and whilst we still have a few teething problems it will continue to feature into the future allowing members further afield to join our social events at Walthew House. October's Sunday session provided an opportunity to test the kit in readiness for future meetings, however there is still work to be done.

Whilst being a radio enthusiast for many years, Ian has only recently become licensed and since has been very active on the HF bands amassing a huge haul of contacts and a high position in our own HF ladder. Well done Ian and congratulations from everyone connected with SRS.

The end of October once again saw our contesters take centre stage for the SSB leg of this year's CQ WW DX series of contests. Whilst those pesky Gremlins had some fun, it's been reported that fun was had by all and preparations are now at an advanced stage for the CW leg at the end of November. More on that next time, in the meantime please see Pete M1PTR's entertaining report elsewhere in this issue.

November

The penultimate month of 2022 began with an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) called by the committee to put forward to the membership a revised Constitution. The discussion involving members at Walthew House and online was lively and productive leading to the proposal to adopt the document being postponed.

Returning to radio, our November Sunday morning session was once again timed to coincide with our monthly 10 Metre net. Evan M0TJU in the chair at Walthew House and using the club callsign G3LX was joined on the air by Simon M0TYY and Slawek M0SQJ from their home QTH's. Also joining briefly were Tony M0SAV and Bernard G3SHF.

We were also pleased to welcome back our intrepid Dxpeditioners, Tom M0DCG and Pete M1PTR (pictured) who came along to tell the story of their mini adventure to Tory Island with Kieron M5KJM the third member of the team and chauffeur. A fabulously entertaining evening telling the story not only of the expedition but the history and culture of the island. If any member would like to see the presentation, the evening was recorded and is available on our YouTube

After a day's break, although not for the committee, it was back to Walthew House and another well anticipated presentation, this time from Slawek M0SQJ. The subject for this evening was the story of the Konstantynów Radio Transmitting Centre, Poland’s long wave radio broadcasting facility during the final years of the Cold War. It was considered to have been one of most powerful radio transmitters ever produced, and a leader in Long Wave radio broadcasting technology during its time of operation.

Ian receiving the G5RP trophy (Photo: RSGB)

Tom M0DCG & Pete M1PTR

It must be said there were more than a few technical hitches delivering the presentation to those attending Walthew House as well as those in their armchairs at home. The presentation was most interesting, and it is hoped arrangements can be made for it to be recorded again and made available through our YouTube channel so everyone can benefit.

activities going strong. The same goes for our Teatime Morse team who regularly continue to offer a dose of the ancient, but increasingly popular art for those who need it at 4pm on 80 Metres twice a week most Wednesdays and Saturdays.

…. and into December

Looking forward now to the final month of the year there will be a change to our nets with the Thursday evening 70 Centimetre net moving to the GB3PZ repeater. However, should "PZ" be occupied at the start time (7.30PM) we will revert to GB3MR. All other nets will continue as usual, and I would urge all to consult our regular news items to ensure familiarity with dates, days, and times of these activities.

As the end of November approaches, our next meeting at Walthew House, a practical and radio evening will take place on the, whilst our contest team will once again be taking to the airwaves from the hilltop site in the CW leg of this year's CQ WW DX series of contests. The event held overthe final full weekend in November is one of the biggest annual events of its type when no doubt the usual bands will be full of exotic, and not so exotic stations to work. We wish our team well and hope that conditions both weather and through the ether are good.

Throughout this period our regular on air nets have continued, and may we thank Roy G6RSU, our net co ordinator, our team of net controllers and all those who have taken part for keeping this side of our

Ray Phillips G3FYE

On the meetings front, our first meeting of December will see a special meeting return to our calendar that being the "G3FYE Memorial Lecture". Ray Phillips G3FYE was the long time Secretary of the society and with others was instrumental in its reformation following the war years in the mid 20th Century.

For many years, Ray's contribution to the society was marked by an annual lecture devoted to the subject of radio and its development, and past lectures have seen such speakers as the General Manager of the RSGB, as well as club members and others delivering presentations to our members.

The Warsaw Radio Mast (Photo Wikipedia)

Mast repairs at Common Barn Farm (Photo M1PTR)

As you will already have read, Carsten G0SYP has developed equipment at his QTH to allow him to communicate via the AO 100 geostationary satellite This evening we have invited Carsten back to Walthew to deliver his presentation once again "AO 100 from the suburbs" and which no doubt will be updated from that delivered in September. The meeting, whilst held at Walthew House will once again be made available to all through our Webex account, hopefully with previous hitches behind us.

After this, next at Walthew House will be our final Sunday meeting of the year on the 11th again timed to coincide with the 10 Metre net, followed by our Annual General Meeting on the 20th which again will also be available through WebEx

Finally, may we once again thank everyone who has been involved with our activities in any way during the year so far.

Until next time, 73s and good DX. ........to be continued........

Extraordinary General Meeting

Tuesday 1st November 2022

Firstly, thank you from the committee to all who attended the meeting at Walthew House or at home through Webex.

The purpose of the meeting was for the committee to present a revised Constitution to those present with a view to it being adopted in place of the existing document revised in 2019.

The committee was charged at the beginning of the year with completely reviewing the document which was done using the RSGB's example Constitution as well as those from other similar clubs and societies.

However, during the evening it soon became clear that further amendments would be needed before the proposed replacement could be recommended to the membership for adoption.

Therefore, with the end of the year being nearly upon us it has been decided to defer any further discussion

on the matter until the new year at which time the new committee can consider what is needed.

The meeting was recorded from which the minutes will be prepared and circulated in due course.

Thank you all for your attention to this matter as well as your very helpful comments.

Nigel Roscoe G0RXA (Acting Secretary) Stockport Radio Society

Annual General Meeting of Stockport Radio Society

Date: Tuesday 20th December 2022

Time: 7.30PM

Venue: JB Room, Walthew House & via Webex Webpage: https://www.g8srs.co.uk/agm2022/ Email: srsagm@g8srs.co.uk

This year's AGM will take place as stated above and will follow the usual format.

(i) Apologies for absence

(ii) Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting

(iii) Treasurer's report

(iv) Society Secretary's report

(v) Chairs report

(vi) Election of new committee (vii) Election of auditor

(viii) Any other business.

AGM 2021 Minutes

The minutes of our AGM 2021 are available to view through our website, please follow link above.

2023 Committee

The Chair, Tony M0SAV and Treasurer, Evan M0TJU are midway through their 3 year term of office.

Committee members Bernard G3SHF, Kieron M5KJM and Nigel M0VNL have indicated their wish to stand for re election for another year. Roy G6RSU, a co opted member has indicated his wish to stand down from the role.

Officer positions vacant are Vice Chair and Secretary, although the latter position is presently being looked after by the President, Nigel G0RXA.

One nomination for committee has been received which has been seconded by two members of the society. Nominations for the vacant officer positions of Vice Chair and Secretary, aswell as ordinary committee member are invited and should be submitted to the Acting Secretary, Nigel G0RXA by the first meeting in December (6th).

The nominee must have been a member of the society for at least three years and agree to the nomination in writing. The nomination must be seconded by at least one other member of the society.

Any other business

Any items for discussion in this sectionmust be notified to the Acting Secretary by the first meeting in December (6th).

Thursday evening net move to GB3PZ Repeater

At the beginning of December, it is our intention to move the Thursday evening 70 Centimetres net, presently using the GB3MR repeater to the GB3PZ repeater looked after by Ian G4ZPZ who is an old friend of the society.

The move has been prompted by GB3MR being upgraded to aYaesu Fusionrepeaterwhichcould result in our nets being interrupted by digital activity.

GB3PZ whilst being internet linked to the IRLP, echolink and allstar networks is an analogue repeater. The linking will allow members located further afield to join in our nets using the afore mentioned networks. Further details can be found by visiting the repeater’s webpage.

Ian is presently updating and replacing some of the equipment used by the repeater but is anticipating

being back on the air by the beginning of December. Should the work take longer, or if the repeater is busy at the allotted time, we will use GB3MR as an alternative.

Looking forward into 2023

With the end of 2022 hurtling towards us our programme of events for the new year is beginning to take shape.

A change for 2023 sees meetings at Walthew House on the 1st and 4th Tuesday evenings of the month as well as the 2nd Sunday mornings of the month. We will continue with one online meeting through Webex, again on a Tuesday evening but now being held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Walthew House (Picture: Walthew House)

All meetings begin around 7.30pm, however the JB Room at Walthew House will be open from 7pm to cater for our Morse sessions with Evan which will continue as part of the programme.

It is our intention to continue to provide a facility for members to view a presentation delivered to our members at Walthew House through the Webex system and usually the event will be available from around 7.15pm.

Presentations

Evan M0TJU has been talking to potential speakers to secure speakers for our presentation’s evenings. However, we are always on the lookout for speakers who can deliver radio related presentations to the society either in person or through the Webex system.

If you are aware of anyone who may fit the bill or indeed if you would be happy to speak about a radio

topic of interest to you and which may interest others, please contact Evan M0TJU at any meeting or by email to treasurer@g8srs.co.uk. If you prefer a message can be left for Evan using our telephone number 07598 892795.

Alternatively, if you have a radio related subject which you feel would be a good topic then again, please let Evan know.

Outdoor events

Events already in the pipeline include the TAS Aviation Memorabilia Fair at The Runway Viewing Park at the end of February with discussions ongoing regarding the Bramhall Park Duck Race, TAS Fair in July, and the "Wings & Wheels" event at Avro Heritage Centre in August.

A new event being discussed is one to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Dambusters Raid which occurs in May and again will involve the Avro Heritage Centre.

Tuesday 7th February 2023: Presentation Evening at Walthew House and via Webex: "Audio Special Helping us Hear" by Mark Bryant M0UFC.

Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th February 2023: TAS Memorabilia Fair at The Runway Visitor Park, Manchester Airport.

Please follow this link to the NARSA website and further details of the appeal.

More details about all our events will follow in due course.

Some dates for the diary. Our programme for December is elsewhere in this issue, however some dates we wish to highlight are:

Tuesday 6th December 2022: The G3FYE Memorial Lecture: AO 100 from the suburbs with Carsten G0SYP at Walthew House and Online via Webex.

Tuesday 20th December 2022: Annual General Meeting at Walthew House and Online via Webex.

Tuesday 3rd January 2023: Social Evening at Walthew House and via Webex: Presentation, "HF Airband revisited" with Evan Duffield M0TJU.

This year’s ladder is drawing to a close with only just over a month to go. However, with band conditions being favourable there are still opportunities out there for scores to be improved especially with some Dxpeditions on the cards and the CW leg of the CQ WW DX contests to come at the end of November.

The current placing can be found at the end of this section. But, for those not yet involved with the ladder and would like to, points are awarded for each different DXCC entity worked per band 160m through 6m.

SRS HF Ladder

G3VOU “Jim Barlow” HF Ladder Trophy

A worked DXCC is only counted once per band regardless of how many different modes are used to work the DXCC. Any mode can be used but contacts must be via RF propagation only.

The competition runs from 00:00 hours 1st January until 23:59hrs 31st December and the overall winner is the recipient of the Jim Barlow G3VOU trophy. Recognition and a separate trophy is also awarded for the leading Foundation entrant.

To include your log in the HF Ladder please sign up to Club Log then join the SRS club league. You can then upload your files from your logging programme throughout the year.

You can log in to club log to see the league table although a quick way to view the current HF & 6 DXCC ladder scores is via the link below. www.m1ptr.com/SRSDxccLadder.php

This guide will help you to get started. HF Ladder Guide.

Shortly after QUA issue 42 hit the newsstands I received an email from member Graham G3ZOD pointing me in the direction of an appeal by St. Ann’s Hospice, a charity which I am sure many of you in this area will be aware. Graham, a supporter of the charity at the time had targeted walking a total of 100 Kilometres throughout the month of September to help raise money for the appeal.

The Appeal in their words is.....

St Ann’s Hospice has been here for you, your family, your friends, and everyone in the Greater Manchester community for over 50 years. During this time, we have provided thousands of local people who have cancer and other life limiting illnesses with the specialist care and loving support they’ve needed, absolutely free of charge. Now, however, your local hospice urgently needs you.

After half a century of caring, we desperately need a new hospice and additional facilities so that we can continue to deliver pioneering world class care for everyone, for generations to come. Without this there is a real risk we may need to close.

It’s for this reason we are asking everyone in the local community to support the biggest and most important fundraising appeal we have ever launched.

Please help us raise £2 million together.

I am sure many of you will have had contacts with St. Hospice either directly or through friends and family. If you would like to support the appeal, then please visit the appeal website https://newhospice.sah.org.uk/ where further information can be obtained.

As for Graham, well I am pleased to say the target was achieved and last I heard he was continuing to rack up the kilometres.

John Dilks, VK6CJW (also M0CJW)

Many of you who attended the Stockport Rally will remember the jovial Aussie who travelled across the Pennines from Lincolnshire with a mountain of gear and often returned home with more gear than he set out with. It was very sad to hear through a news item from the RSGB that John had passed away. For those who remember him the news item is repeated below and we at SRS add our condolences to those already offered.

With regret it is announced that John Dilks, VK6CJW (also M0CJW) is now silent key. He died on 29 July, aged 86 and will be much missed on the air by his friends worldwide.

John was a character in the very best of amateur radio tradition. He divided his time until recently between Perth in Western Australia and his UK home near Newark. In his younger days, for example, he took his whole family in a battered old van overland through Europe, the Eastern Bloc countries, when travel was very difficult, through the Middle East, India, Sri Lanka and beyond. He was involved in many enterprises and international interests and even politics. He would regale his adventures to amateur clubs and others when invited to do so. He was to be found on HF almost daily with VK when conditions allowed, and on

repeaters locally. He was also to be found at many radio rallies in the UK with a keen following.

John was a good, dependable, and loyal friend to many: always happy to help and encourage, swap yarns and pass on his own tips. He will be very much missed. Our condolences to his family and friends.

Jeremy Boot, G4NJH

As already mentioned in this edition, October saw the return of the “live” RSGB Convention held at Kents Hill Conference Centre, Milton Keynes.

Several members attended the event including Ian M0RNH who collected the G5RP award, and Evan M0TJU.

Being a regular attendee Evan has kindly put together his thoughts on this year’s event.

RSGB Conventions, Past and Present:

A Personal View by Evan Duffield M0TJU

After a hiatus of three years, I made the journey back to Milton Keynes in October for 2022’s RSGB Convention. This was the fifteenth such event that I’ve attended; the first being in 2006, when it was titled the HF Convention. Much has certainly changed in the past decade and a half. Back then, software defined radio was in its infancy, PSK31 was ruling the digital roost, and spectrum scopes on rigs were narrow, slow, and rare. Yet, like the amateur radio hobby itself, many convention habits seem to be for the ages. From the black tie Saturday night dinner to the evening debates around the lounge bar about what modes are appropriate on the ham bands, some characteristics of conventions past will, no doubt, carry on. After having turned up to fourteen such events in a row, my worry was that number fifteen would feel too samey, with too much ‘habit’ and not enough ‘change’. However, I did end up enjoying my fifteenth outing, and will most likely return for a sixteenth, next year.

Hosting at least a couple of dozen presentations, that collectively deal with all things amateur radio, there is generally plenty on offer for one and all at the RSGB Convention. The 2022 event was no different. Given a

number ofsubject ‘streams’, picking and choosing what sessions to attend has always been a dilemma for me. Despite the variety of topics on offer and my yearly resolutions to do otherwise I tend to excessively attend talks on my favourite subjects, especially propagation and space weather. Ditto for 2022.

With rare exceptions, the presentations at the conventions are excellent, with speakers obviously putting a great deal of effort into their respective ‘shows’. As good as the actual presentations are, I believe that the highlights of these sessions are the follow up questions and discussion; they often help clarify the points made by the speakers, as well as drawing attention to differing perspectives. If I have any criticism of the talks, it is that too little time is left for discussion and questions from the audience; the speakers trying to fit in as much content as a (45 minute) slot will allow. (Something that I would suggest is to have a few of the sessions being hosted by panels of experts, whose sole activity would be to respond to attendees’ queries.)

Being able to engage with the associations relating to special amateur interests like BYLARA (promoting women in ham radio), CDXC (for DXing) and BATC (for amateur TV) is certainly one of the pluses of the convention. Most of these groups will have tables constantly staffed over both days of the conference weekend, giving conventiongoers a chance to check them out, despite the packed presentation schedule. Let’s not forget the manufacturers: Icom and Yaesu, there to showcase their latest base station and mobile rigs; the FTDX710 and the IC 905 being this year’s head turners.

Going forward, conventions will be webcast, with most of the popular presentations being accessible to anyone wired in. Yet, for me, it is the post PowerPoint questions and discussion, plus the ability to chat informally with amateurs from ‘other parts’, that make the RSGB Convention even after 15 visits well worth attending.

Thank you Evan and anyone interested in viewing the RSGB 2022 Convention livestream, it is available along with programme details by following this link.

We have already seen that Ian M0RNH has been awarded the G5RP trophy for his HF operating successes since being licenced. When posed with the question “what was your most memorable contact in 2022”, Ian responds…..

Sunday 05/06/2022 started with the usual weekend packing of equipment and the making of making lunch and the preparation of a flask of tea.

Once the car was loaded with the lunch, freshly charged batteries and the radio equipment I proceeded on the short journey to the shore of the IJsselmeer lake in Northern Holland.

Once I arrived, I began setting up the antenna and as the weather was calm with little wind, I assembled the DX commander Expedition and set up my computer and radio in the trunk of my Jeep.

Using FT8 on 18.100 MHZ contacts were made around Europe and into Asia. At this point I stopped for a cup of tea before lunch. I then looked back at my computer screen and contact had been made with C5C expedition station in the Gambia. I was surprised with this contact as east to west contacts are very good from this location with a good take off over the lake, however contacts to the south into Africa have been quite challenge.

My most Memorable QSO 2022 by Ian Justice M0RNH/PA0RNH

C5C DxPedition QSL Card

CQ WW DX SSB Contest: 29th & 30th

October 2022

Setup DAY 1 Wednesday 26th October

It was mild weather for October and ideal for being outside on a warm dry day at our contest site at Common Barn Farm in the Peak District. Our aim was to setup a Multi single station using one of our two trailer masts ready to participate in a 48 hour CQ WW DX SSB contest.

Having previously agreed, during antenna plan discussions, to use a TH5 10 15 & 20m Yagi with wire dipoles for 40 80 and 160m, we were persuaded at the last minute by Dave G0LZL to use the TH6 Yagi as it had better gain than the TH5. The last time the TH6 was used we had a bad SWR problems, but Dave was confident that it would not be the case for this contest. Reluctantly we agreed. (ED: Reader make a note of this).

We split up into three teams:

Team 1 setup the caravan kit with an FT5000 DX as the main RUN station and an FT1000MP as a Spotter station.

Team 2 prepared the Buxton mast and assembled TH6 Yagi.

Team 3 erected Carsten's antenna for the spotter and a 4G internet antenna.

All fairly normal and well organized you would think. It’s worth noting we do get setup issues as the kit has to be wired up each time and doesn’t stay in the caravan. Also, we had our usual 'which way is North' debate. However, they are usually quickly sorted all pretty normal eh?

Hmm, not quite! This time it took on a what must have been a Halloween trick or treat when the ‘Antennameister’ wanted the rotator pointing South which got a response from the in caravan ‘Systemmeister’ of 'which South do you want'?

Half an hour later after much debate ‘do you want South via East or South via West?’ and ‘is that Clockwise or Counter Clockwise’, and finally a debate that 'we need amarkon the rotator’or should it be two marks?' In the end the rotator was just turned to point South as it really didn’t matter how it got there!

With progress in the caravan resolving some connection issues, the internet 4G connection looking good and TH6 Yagi at 45 degrees on its way up to 20ft vertical showing a reasonable SWR.

All going to plan, I hear.... No!!, One thing you learn from assembling the station is never to assume or say ‘it’s going well’. You never know if the gremlins are listening.

When all was looking OK until it suddenly went pear shaped. At 20ft vertical the TH6 showed SWR 6:1. All eyes looked at Dave and mutterings of ‘TH5 should have been used’. Never mind we can fix it. So, we luffed the mast to investigate. To our surprise when luffing back from vertical to 45 degrees the trailer suddenly shifted and the mast jumped sideways no longer aligned with the trailer.

First, we thought it was a gust of wind, until we then spotted the real cause was a rope from the top of the mast had been secured to a stake. This caused a bracket between trailer and mast to twist and the lower lattice tower section distort all because the rope took the strain without breaking and the metalwork gave way instead. Disaster!

Damage to the Buxton mast

The damage meant the Buxton mast was not safe to erect so work stopped, we had a cup of tea (of course!) and made a plan for Thursday to use the Worcester mast with the TH5 Yagi and hopefully not break it in the process.

Setup DAY 2 – Thursday 27th October

Having decided that Day 1 was a write off we started Day 2 earlier than normal with a marked sense of 'measure twice cut once'. We were all fired up, raring to go and with renewed confidence. What a difference a good sleep makes!

The day went well, with only a couple of issues that were both quickly sorted. A faulty barrel on the TH5

coax and a 'where's the halyards?' moment as the TH5 was luffed to vertical. So, the TH5 was again lowered, halyards attached and raised to vertical of 20ft.

After lunch the TH5 was lifted to full operational height, dipoles for 40, 80 & 160m raised and RF sent into the ether with good SWRs on all bands.

All ready for the contest which starts 0000z Saturday morning and ends 2359z Sunday night.

Visit Day 3 – Friday 28th October

Today was an unplanned visit to the farm but was necessary to meet Alan thewelderthat thefarmer uses to fix broken things. Fortunately for us the farmer has a problem with his Land Rover that required some metal glue and so a visit from Alan the welder had been arranged.

I (M1PTR) arrived at 0800z only to be informed the TH5 was stuck pointing East. We have had problems with the Worcester rotator in the past and have stripped and tested it without finding a problem. No amount of switching on and off would make it turn so I was stuck with a Yagi pointing East.

I worked as many as I could on 10, 15 & 20m but struggled to make contact with any US stations. As this was an American contest US stations were 3 points a QSO rather than 1 point per European QSO, so our score was going to be compromised.

Before they left Tom & Dave had made a 20m wire dipole but had not managed to tune it. After an hour or so of me exhausting contacts to the East I decided to have a go at sorting the 20m dipole. I dropped the 160m dipole, in what felt like a 20mph wind, swapped dipole to 20m and started to hoist it skywards. I managed about 10ft, but the wind blew the rope jamming it between the pulley and frame. It wouldn’t go upor down,so backto the caravan and carry onwith the East facing Yagi.

Every hour or so I tried the rotator without success until to my surprise at 1300z it started to turn towards the West. Hurrah!. What a difference it made; the US stations now replied to my calls and the points quickly went up with each QSO. Evan, M0TJU took over from me at 1400z followed by Carsten, G0SYP at 1900z and by midnight when Tom and Dave arrived for their second shift the QSO count was well over 700.

Contest Day 2 – Sunday 30th October

We each did our second shift and the station and antennas behaved themselves so many QSOs were accrued throughout the day. Conditions were excellent with an SFI of 130. When running, the US stations were calling one after another, all crystal clear and well mannered. At times we achieved well over 200 QSOs per hour with some peaks of 6 per minute.

This was an ideal opportunity for us to ask him to look at our broken mast. As I drove up the track to the farm, I noticed that one of the dipoles had dropped. On inspection it was clear that the short rope that tethers the centre T of the 160m dipole had come undone. No problem while waiting for Alan I refastened the dipole and in the mild weather easily hoisted it back to full height. (ED: Reader note, mild weather)

Contest Day 1- Saturday 29th October

Tom, M0DCG and Dave, G0LZL were on the first shift at 0000z and got us off to a good start mainly using 80 & 160m through the night moving to the higher bands as dawn broke.

Excerpt from the G5O Log

By the close we had made 2,175 QSOs. The table shows the split across the bands showing 10m being wide open throughout the day.

We made contacts all over getting some great signal reports and enjoying some well disciplined pile ups. Our best contacts included Hawaii, Haiti, St Helena, British Virgin Is. Alaska plus many more.

160m dipole adrift from its halyard

Teardown Day 1- Monday 31st October

We were back at the farm the day after the contest sharing stories of the contest and the contacts we each made.

The kit was dissembled and packed away ready for the next contest which is CQ WW DX CW at the end of November. It always amazes me that the teardown can be done in one day, but setup takes two or three times longer. I guess it’s because of the time we take to test and also having to resolve issues during setup.

Conclusion

The moral of this report is when you think everything is going well watch out for the unexpected; and when everything is failing don’t give up!.

I’m pleased to report the event was a great success despite the gremlins. This was all due to the efforts of the team: Tom M0DCG, Dave G0LZL, Kieron M5KJM, Bernard G3SHF, Roy G6RSU, Evan M0TJU, Carsten G0SYP and me Pete M1PTR.

If you are interested in helping us setup or would like to have a go at operating a first class HF station in a very quiet RF location, contact Bernard G3SHF. You are also welcome to sit with an experienced operator and listen for those stations you probably wouldn’t hear at home.

If you prefer just to listen to the pileups at home you can always monitor our progress and current operating frequency during contests at www.m1ptr.com/MONITOR.

Pete Ridley, M1PTR

Moving QTH: An amateur radio and aviation enthusiast’s tale.

Chris Lanzara M0LZA

I once heard that for some, moving is exciting, full of new beginnings and exciting opportunities. For some it’s an upheaval and a challenge. For me, moving QTH along with an XYL and a 2 year old when the house you are moving to hasn’t even been built yet…well that felt like a different kind of challenge (spoiler alert: I won’t be doing this again for a long time).

Before I get ahead of myself, a bit of background to my story. My journey into amateur radio started one gloomy Wednesday morning in 2011, when I was standing in line with a work colleague while we waited to board a Ryanair FR553 flight from Manchester to Dublin. An off hand comment led to the discovery that we had quite a few common interests, among them radio and aviation, and that he was a G0 and had been licenced since at least the early 90’s (I forget exactly when he obtained his G0 callsign). Ultimately this led me to SRS and through the great help and support I received at the club, I was able to get my M6 in September 2011, 2E0 in February 2012 and finally my M0 callsign in July 2012.

2012 was a big year, not just for passing my Advanced exam and finally achieving my M0 callsign, but also because I managed to buy my first QTH, a three bed semi detached house based in Cheadle Hulme. Luckily for me, my neighbours weren’t interested in what

antennas I decided to put up, which is a good thing as at one point I had four!

Before I talk about what antennas I had up, I should mention one of my other interests: aviation. I’ve spoken about this subject to a few folks at the club over the years and again on a recent SRS club net, but my interest in aviation started as a child, way before I even knew what radio was, from my maternal grandfather who passed his interest to my mum and then on to me. It was in 2009 during a visit to Manchester Airport’s Runway Viewing Park that I first saw a Kinetic SBS 1 ADS B receiver in use, along with a virtual radar screen on display.

A radar screen will be familiar to the majority: a typically black screen with concentric rings and small icons indicating aircraft positions, and is usually a picture generated from either 1) primary radar, with the revolving dish that sends out a beam of radio waves which bounce off an object and are picked up by a receiver co located with the transmitter which works out relative bearing and distance on each sweep or rotation of the dish, or 2) secondary surveillance radar, where the aircraft transmits data about itself in response to an interrogation signal from the ground.

ADS B, or Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast, is an extension of secondary surveillance in that it does not rely upon an interrogation signal from the ground to trigger a transmission, instead the aircraft actively broadcasts information about itself (hence the “ B”) that can be picked up by a suitable receiver, such as the Kinetic SBS 1 or Airnav Radarbox, and gives a controller a higher resolution picture and vastly more information compared to primary radar, which is just where something was and how far it was the last time it was seen. Each aircraft is assigned a unique 24 bit hexadecimal code issued by the ICAO, an example is 406b48 belonging to a Boeing 787 9 Dreamliner registered to Virgin Atlantic, and is transmitted along with information such as altitude, speed, heading, callsign, GPS location, which is a huge advantage over primary radar. All this information is then combined to form a picture of where that aircraft is in space and what it may be doing at any given moment. It doesn’t tell you destination, as that’s a flight number that is issued by the airline and is typically published on a seasonal schedule, with any suitable aircraft flying that route.

When I saw the SBS 1 on display and that it was something anyone could buy, I decided it would be my new hobby and I felt the Kinetic SBS 1e was the route for me, and so my interest in “radar spotting” started. For some enthusiasts, they see an aircraft and take photos or write the registration numbers down in a logbook, but for a “radar spotter” it would be collecting these hexadecimal codes seen by one’s ADS B receiver, allowing the individual to build up a database or catalogue of aircraft “seen”.

Over the years I upgraded the Kinetic SBS 1e to the Kinetic SBS 3, however my current setup is actually a Raspberry Pi 4 with an RTL SDR dongle running feeder programs to flight tracking websites along with other programs I have written (I’m a software engineer by day) and have found that this setup works better for me than the SBS 3 did, somewhat sadly for the SBS 3. As a side note, I don’t know what has happened to Kinetic as they seemed to be quite active up until 2016, but now they appear to have fallen off the radar pardon the pun.

ADS B operates on 1090MHz, and there are a variety of antennas available on the market ranging from the small home brew type (which I have had a go at making, with some success) to the small desktop mag mounts, to the full white stick 5/8 ths antenna I currently have. Similarly, there are various filtering and pre amp options available to further enhance and clean up reception of those all important ADS B messages.

Returning to my QTH, the four antennas I had up for most of the time I lived there were:

1) A 6m/2m/70cms Comet GP 15N that has been the “workhorse” for transmission and reception, mountedon a set of TK brackets and a long mast.

2) A 2m Diamond Yagi on a rotator for 2m SSB on the back corner of the house. Sadly, it saw little use save for a few NFD contents in the early days.

3) An end fed G WHIP antenna for HF, mounted at one end of the garden, up to a support on the chimney and down to a flagpole in the front garden. This performed quite well on 40m.

4) A 1090MHz antenna mounted on the chimney.

Over the years I changed the antennas around, and also mounted other wide band scanning antennas in the loft space, mainly so I could receive ACARS messages that the Kinetic SBS 3 will decode, which were hidden out of sight and operated well enough for my hobby.

I enjoyed this setup for a good numberof years without any complaints, although I did see more than the odd passer by looking up at what was mounted, but inevitably life moves on as it always does and I met my YL who later became my XYL, and then we were joined by a little boy in 2020 just before Covid became a thing. After 12 months of the three of us living in my three bed semi, I finally conceded that it felt very small and cramped and so in March 2021 the house went on the market and we started looking for a new place to call home. Many options were considered, but none were as good as the house we decided to buy at Woodford Garden Village, the new Redrow development on the former site of BAE Systems Woodford, and current home to the Avro Museum and the Vulcan B2 XM603. We have been to this site many times and even have family already living here, so in some sense it felt like the place we would end up eventually…the major drawback was that the house would not be ready until early 2022!

April and May 2021 were spent packing and moving our possessions into storage, which involved a visit from the chap who had installed some of my antennas, and whom I’d called upon when I decided to move things around. We took the antennas down and dismantled them one Thursday morning, thus returning the house to its former antenna free glory. Eventually at the end of May we moved out and finalised the sale at the end of June 2021.

Radio took a back seat after we moved out, but I was able to continue my radar spotting after building my own “cantenna” 1090MHZ antenna, see photo, which I sat on the windowsill where it kept monitoring the skies for me. I have to say that I found I got better results with this than I did with the mag mount antenna that came with the SBS! I highly recommend giving it a go as it can be made from a simple length of coax (RG 8 mini in my case).

Eventually 2022 arrived and our new house was finally completed. After spending months pouring over the paperwork and reading ourrestrictivecovenants, there

were no mentions of antennas happy days!...or so I thought. Mentions of mounting antennas externally were met with stern looks and words of encouragement to not “lower the tone” of the estate were made on more than one occasion, so where did that leave me?

For us, part of the experience of moving into a Redrow property was being able to visit the house at various points in its construction, one of which being the “hard hat tour” where we could don hard hats and walk around the house as a building site once the roof is finished, but before the partition walls and ceilings receive their plaster board. It was quite an experience to see, mainly because I could stand on the first floor and look right up into the loft space and start to work out just how high that roof apex would be, and there started a glimmer of hope that perhaps I could hide my antennas away in the loft space where no one outside would be any the wiser!

It wouldn’t be until September 2022, almost six months exactly after getting the keys, that I could find a day to myself to install my antennas. When considering what to mount in the limited loft space available, I decided my priorities had to be my 6m/2m/70cms Comet GP 15N colinear, and my Radarama 200. So, on a Sunday morning I clambered up into the loft space with the colinear in hand and found out just how much space I had to play with, and as luck would have it, it was just enough!

To give more stability and a bit more freedom in where the antennas could be mounted, I installed a plank of wood running across several joists, positioned underneath the apex where I could achieve the greatest amount of headroom, and mounted both antennas using TV loftmounting kits on the same piece of wood. See the photo. Two runs of RG 8 mini were put through the ceiling and into the fitted wardrobe in one of the bedrooms below, down to floor level and then through the wall and into my adjacent office, hidden away out of sight from both the little one and the XYL.

Reports from a recent SRS 70cms GB3MR net gave good audio reports and while I’m virtually line of sight to the repeater, it’s good to know that the signals are getting out with virtually no SWR even within the confines of my loft space having always been told to mount antennas outside and in free space for best

performance. I had been concerned about metal backed insulation or materials used during construction, but happily it does not appear to have been the case.

As for my radar spotting hobby, since my first radar contact logged on the 6th of September 2009, my radar database currently holds in excess of 35,000 ICAO 24 bit hex codes seen over the years by my SBS 1e, SBS 3 and more recently my Raspberry Pi. After I switched from running Kinetic Base Station with my SBS 1e and SBS 3 on Windows, to the Raspberry Pi and RTL SDR on Linux, I’ve continued to populate the same database as I wrote the software for Linux to take the same ADS B data, parse it and then populate my database in much the same way that Kinetic Base Station would have originally done.

Of those 35,000 aircraft in the database, around 3,200 were logged since moving to the new house with the Raspberry Pi and using the “cantenna” on the windowsill. With the combination of height, a 1090MHz pre amp and filter and a Radarama 200 antenna, I’m now seeing contacts as south as Exeter and the south English coastline, as north as Carlisle and as east as the North Sea. Sadly, it’s not the same range through all 360 degrees, but covers most of the northwest and is better than it was before.

Finally, it feels like I’m home and no, I won’t be moving again for a very long time!

Above, my original QTH with my Radarama 200 (left) after it took the position of the 2m Yagi, Comet GP 15N where it has always been in the middle, and then on the chimney is the tv aerial and the G WHIP wire antenna running up to an eyelet and down into the front garden for HF.

Above, the early evening traffic on the virtual radar display with a contact tracked from Manchester airport to Exeter nearly 160nm away. The contact passed Exeter and the coastline, then dropped off my screen. Mornings are much busier and there can be in excess of 100 aircraft contacts at any given time.

Above, my “cantenna” for 1090MHz based on the designs on https://lucsmall.com/2017/02/06/making antennas for 1090mhz ads b aircraft tracking/. In reality, the can is just for support and stability, the ground radials taking the job over from the other “cantenna” designs.

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Above, my Comet GP 15N in the foreground with the Radarama 200 in the background, mounted in the loft space of my new QTH.

exploring the possibility of taking part in the 2022 JOTA.

Joining one of our Sunday morning sessions, Mike brought some of his newly acquired and spent some time with our Chair, Tony M0SAV discussing his intentions for the event which took place in October.

Mike has given permission for a short article he’d written for the troop’s website to be reproduced in our QUA newsletter, thank you Mike.

On 15 October 2022, 23rd Manchester Cub Scouts made their way over to Boarfold Scout Campsite to have a go at Amateur Radio.

Akela passes Radio Amateur Exam 1993

Above, my radar spotting essentials during a move around the room. My 1090MHz pre amp and filter (top left), Raspberry Pi 4 with aluminium heat sink armour case (top right) and RTL SDR dongle (bottom).

Chris Lanzara M0LZA

October 2022

Earlier this year we were contacted by Mike G7OQU

Mike, a scout leader with the 23rd Manchester scout troop had recently returned to the hobby and was

A very long time ago (at school), Akela learned to operate amateur radios, and after a long time away from the hobby, thought it would be a fun way to try to contact other Scout groups near and far, here and around the world.

A fair amount of preparation went into this event. Contacting the RSGB and Ofcom; getting the Notice of Variation for our new call sign GB0BSC (Golf Bravo Zero Boarfold Scout Campsite). Setting up our page on QRZ.com. Getting advice from our local friendly Amateur Radio club G8SRS and nearby Scout group, 88th Manchester, who have worked radio before. Making numerous visits to Boarfold Campsite to scope out the location, make the necessary risk assessments and set up the antenna.

The event was initially due to run for the entire weekend but for various reasons we had to limit ourselves to the one day. So, for the day we mainly concentrated on HF (High Frequency, i.e. Short Wave)

Mike (Akela) G7OQU aged 17.

radio operations. Other activities planned for the camp such as building Morse keys, looking at Semiphore, working on our NATO alphabet and look at Azimuthal Projection maps and Great Circles, we can fit into our programme over the next year.

We started at 1000h BST, and after our safety briefing and a tour of activities most cubs found a bunch of PMR radios1 in Akela’s box of things and wanted to try those out first. We learned how to select the relevant channel and soon discovered that listening was key and exchanging overs was the way to get messages back and forth.

the valley. Fortunately, lightning was one of the events we had anticipated (even though the weather and no indication of electric storms at all that day!) A flurry of activity disconnecting antennas in the hail. The storm lasted only about 10 minutes and the Cubs all came inside and made cup and string telephones. Next year we’ll try paper cups, as the plastic ones to hand mostly split

After the storm passed and Akela was happy that the weather wasn’t going to turn, we reconnected the antenna and I think we made our last few QSO’s/Contacts.

Later Akela would discover that PMR radios were an excellent way to get wide Cub Scouts back to HQ for lunch. “Akela calling all Cub Scouts, Akela calling all Cubs Scouts. Please return to base; return to base; lunch is ready. Over”.

“[Cubs] to Akela, We’re coming!”

During the day our Cubs got involved in a number of the activities. Hide and seek with PMR radios (the Cubs invented their own game); Battle ships via PMR Radios; make a cup and string radio (very useful during a storm); send greetings via shortwave radio; watch some remote control drone activity.

Four of our Cub Scouts got down to business with our HF station and made greetings messages with other stations around the UK. Well done to Adeline, Anisha, Niamh and Olivia. We also heard folk operating out of Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland and Italy, but were unavailable for us to make a QSO with.

As if speaking on the radio for the first time wasn’t nerve wracking enough mid afternoon lightning struck

Just before closing the station down, I tuned into one of the gateway repeaters on 70cms (UHF) to hear a part radio, part internet communication between two stations in the USA. Hopefully we’ll be able to get further afield next time. Maybe operating both HF and gateway repeaters will increase our chances.

Mike (Akela) G7OQU

October 2022

Mike G7OQU operating GB0BSC

GB0BSC Antennas

Contesters or eventers”, finding north always seems to be a perennial problem and one touched on by Peter in his report earlier.

'Wandering' North Pole

Grid north is the blue line on an OS map that points to the North Pole.

True north isthe directionof linesof longitude that also converge at the North Pole, but this varies from grid north as it reflects the curve of the earth.

Magnetic north marks the north ward line to the magnetic North Pole.

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon the following article on the BBC (Dorset) website which may help with future deliberations.

Map norths converge on Dorset village in historic first.

The position of the magnetic North Pole moves continually north westward due to adjustments in the magnetic field in the core of the Earth.

It is this "wandering" which had created the convergence and the historic alignment, Mr Greaves said.

Map readers are taught to know the difference when navigating with a compass between magnetic north and grid north, it is also crucial for navigating in aviation and shipping.

But it would not make much of a difference to map reading for the duration of alignment, "just make it slightly easier," Mr Greaves said.

A small village has made map reading history and become the first place where true, magnetic and grid north have met at a single point.

According to the Ordnance Survey (OS) the historic triple alignment made landfall in Langton Matravers, near Swanage in Dorset, on Wednesday.

It will stay converged for three and a half years as it travels through the UK.

OS spokesman Mark Greaves said it was not related to climate change.

Records held by the OS, Britain's national mapping service, date back to the 1930sbut MrGreaves said this was the "first time ever in British mapping history" the three norths had aligned.

"Magnetic north has a habit of wandering around, but this is unusual, it's not been in this orientation for hundreds of years," he added.

According to the OS, the converged line will pass through nearby Poole by Christmas, before moving reaching Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire in August 2024.

It will leave the English coast at Berwick Upon Tweed in August 2025.

It does not hit land again until roughly May 2026 at Drums. Its last stop in Scotland, and the UK landmass, is Fraserburgh around July 2026.

Dear Member

Another year is nearly over, and Christmas is just around the corner.

That means membership subscriptions for 2023 are due....

The good news is that subs’ rates are the same as last year’s...

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Senior (18 64yrs) £15.00

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Junior (under 18yrs) £2.50

I know that many of you will have arranged to pay, mostly ‘automatically’ by standing order. (Thank you.)

For thosewishing to pay‘manually,’ a banktransfercan be made to....

Bank: Barclays PLC.

Account Name: Stockport Radio Society

Sorting Code: 205377

Account number: 40346314

In the payment reference, please include your initial, surname and callsign and the word ‘SUBS.’ If you’re struggling for space in the reference field, just include your callsign and ‘SUBS.’ If you are not yet licenced, your initial, surname and ‘SUBS’ will suffice.

Cheques can be made out to Stockport Radio Society. Please write your callsign and ‘2023 SUBS’ on the back and, if the name of the account from which the cheque is drawn doesnotmatchyour name,includeyourname on the back of the cheque, too. You may hand in the cheque to any committee member when we meet at Walthew House, or you can post it to the following address...

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Please note that, with a payment by cheque, there may be a considerable length of time between our receipt of it and its cashing.

Payment can also be made with cash; notes and coins can be taken when we meet at Walthew House. (If you

choose to pay in cash, please bring the correct amount if you can.) We, now, can accept payment by credit and debit cards (Visa and MasterCard); we will have our ‘SumUp’ card reading device ready and waiting at our Walthew House meetings.

For receipts of payment, if you communicate with SRS online, we will send an email message in lieu of a paper receipt. If you do not, we will endeavour to get paper one to by post, or perhaps with the subsequent edition of QUA.

Should you have any questions about subscriptions, please do not hesitate to email me at the following address: treasurer@g8srs.co.uk

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Webex, our online platform

Any member not familiar accessing the system, or even if you are and would like a refresher, then we recommend viewing this video on YouTube.

At the outset we chose the package best suited to meeting the needs of our members and whilst this is not a free service the cost of the package has not been passed on to members.

However, in the same way members contribute when attending meetings at Walthew House, we would like to ask those joining us online consider making a donation to our funds to help meet the annual cost of the facility.

Should you choose to do so, then please transfer your contribution directly to the society’s bank account quoting a reference of “Webex” followed by your callsign, e.g., “Webex G8SRS”, will help our Treasurer.

Bank: Barclays PLC.

Account Name: Stockport Radio Society

Sorting Code: 205377

Account number: 40346314

Evan Duffield M0TJU (SRS Committee)

SRS “On air” Nets

On air nets are an important feature of any radio society’s activities and we are no different. To cater for members with different interests our nets take place on various bands and modes. Presently, arranged nets are as follows.

• Thursday Weekly at 7.30pm local: 70 CMs via the GB3PZ Repeater (from 1st December, GB3MR if busy or off air).

• 2nd Tuesday of month at 7.30pm local: Zello Net.

• 2nd Sunday of month at 10.30am local: 10 Metres SSB (28.575MHz +/ QRM).

• Teatime Morse at 4pm local (Wednesday & Saturday): 80 Metres CW (3.564MHz +/ ).

For more information and a Zello password please email info@g8srs.co.uk or telephone 07598 892795.

GB3MR Repeater: The repeater is located to the south of Stockport on high ground close to Lyme Park, Disley, an area known locally as Bowstones.

• Output Frequency: 433.350MHz

• Input Frequency: 434.950MHz

• Locator: IO83XH

• CTCSS Code: 82.5Hz

For more information about GB3MR, please visit https://www.ukfmgw.co.uk/tx/gb3mr/

Teatime Morse with Bernard & Tom

GB3PZ repeater: The repeater is located to the east of Stockport in Dukinfield and is looked after by Ian G4ZPZ.

• Output Frequency: 430.900MHz

• Input Frequency: 438.500MHz

• Locator: IO83XL

• CTCSS Code: 82.5Hz

For more information about GB3PZ, please visit https://www.ukfmgw.co.uk/tx/gb3pz/

Please see below for further information.

• Days: Wednesday and Saturday unless specified.

• Time: 4pm local time

• Frequency: 3.564 MHz +/ QRM

• Email: morse@g8srs.co.uk

• Teatime Morse Page: Click Here

• Jodrell Bank WebSDR: Click Here

• Webex Meeting ID: 181 492 2539 (Password: G8SRS)

With 750 sessions in the bag the net has been instrumental in both introducing new licensees to the wonders of the code as well has helping existing participants to improve their use and understanding of the ancient art which some might say is the original digital mode.

Your comments and signal reports are very welcome either on air, via email to the dedicated address (see above) or a message can be left using the society’s dedicated phone line 07598 892795.

Our publication library continues to expand with publications of interest to the radio amateur and enthusiast being added monthly.

The library is available in PDF format to members who can bring their own USB storage device to Walthew House and copy all, or the required publication(s).

Whilst there is no charge, members using the facility may wish to donate to society funds. Alternatively, a 16GB USB storage device, kindly donated by ICOM UK can be provided with a £5 deposit. If the device is not returned, the deposit will be used to secure a replacement.

Our thanks go to, Icom UK, all those sources and organisations who have made publications available at no cost, notably Practical Wireless, and members donating books and publications from the likes of the ARRL, RSGB and Practical Wireless.

As well as books, the library presently holds copies of many popular periodicals such as Radcom, Practical Wireless, BATC CQ TV and Practical Electronics.

For a full list of publications available, and/or if you have any publications in PDF format you would like to donate, please contact Neil M6NAE by email (srslibrary@g8srs.co.uk) telephone or speak to him at any society event.

Sundays at Walthew House

Our Sunday morning sessions, introduced to the programme earlier this year will continue into 2023.

The sessions are designed to be practical in nature and hopefully appeal to the newly licenced as well as the “old hand”.

Timed to coincide with our 10 Metre HF net, the opportunity is there to experience operating with some of the latest gear including our Icom IC7610. As

well as HF, our VHF/UHF and digital gear is on hand as well as Members to help and answer any questions.

The sessions have proved to be very popular with the opportunity provided to experience different aspects of the hobby.

2022 Committee

Chair: Anthony Smithies M0SAV

Vice Chair: Post Vacant

Treasurer: Evan Duffield M0TJU

Secretary: Nigel Roscoe G0RXA (Acting)

Committee Members: Bernard Naylor G3SHF Kieron Murphy M5KJM Nigel Smithies M0VNL

On air Net Co ordinator: Roy Anstee G6RSU

Contact emails: General Enquiries: info@g8srs.co.uk

Treasurer: treasurer@g8srs.co.uk

Membership: membership@g8srs.co.uk

Contesting: contesting@g8srs.co.uk

Teatime Morse: morse@g8srs.co.uk

Postal Address

Stockport Radio Society Walthew House 112 Shaw Heath Stockport SK2 6QS

Telephone: 07598 892795

December 2023 Programme

1st: Club Net via GB3PZ (7.30PM)

3rd: Teatime Morse Net on 3564KHz (4PM)

6th: The G3FYE Memorial Lecture: AO 100 from the suburbs with Carsten G0SYP at Walthew House and Online via Webex.

7th: Teatime Morse Net on 3564KHz (4PM)

8th: Club Net via GB3PZ (7.30PM)

10th: Teatime Morse Net on 3564KHz (4PM)

11th: Sunday at Walthew House (10.00am)

11th: 10 Metre Net 28.575MHz SSB (10.30am)

12th: SRS Contest Group Review Meeting (7.15PM)

13th: Club net via Zello (7.30pm)

14th: Teatime Morse Net on 3564KHz (4PM)

15th: Club Net via GB3PZ (7.30PM)

17th: Teatime Morse Net on 3564KHz (4PM)

20th: Annual General Meeting

21st: Teatime Morse Net on 3564KHz (4PM)

22nd: Club Net via GB3PZ (7.30PM)

27th: Christmas and New Year Special

29th: Club Net via GB3PZ (7.30PM)

Subject to change, please follow our website, Google Group mailing list and social media platforms for up to date details.

Stockport Radio Society is an affiliated member of the RSGB (Radio Society of Great Britain) and NARSA (Northern Amateur Radio Society Association)