QUA Welcome, to the June 2015 edition of the Stockport Radio Society (SRS) Newsletter 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 about - your hobby.
Winners at Narsa 2015
Diary Dates 2015 Tuesday 2 June Human Hearing/ Microphones with Roland Myers Sat/Sun 6/7 June RSGB National Field Day 24 hour Contest Thursday 11 June On Air from Members QTH Sat/Sun 13/14 June Foundation Course Weekend 1 of 2 Tuesday 16 June Car Radios Asynchronous Vibrators / John 2E0GCX Saturday 20 June Foundation Course Weekend 2 of 2 Tuesday 23 June
Pete M1PTR receiving the trophy for best club stand
Heather (SRS Media Manager) receiving the trophy for Best Website
Skills night from HQ – Yaesu FT920 test and refresh night Tuesday 7 July Repeaters with Dave & Kath Wilson
Stockport Radio Society Rally Saturday 11 July 2015 Don’t forget to come along and why not book a table and sell all your surplus radio bits from your shack
Friday 10 July SRS Rally Prep Night Saturday 11 July SRS Rally Thursday 16 July On Air from Members QTH Tuesday 21 July Society Night Sat/Sun 24/25 July IOTA from Rathlin
Website : www.g8srs.co.uk
Tel : 07506 904422
Tuesday 28 July Skills night from HQ – Burnt Fingers Nights
Review of Events - Narsa 2015 We would like to thank everyone involved in the stand this year. Peter M1PTR, Nigel 2E0CKA, Andy 2E0GCL, Heather (Media), Evan M0TJU, Brian G8NHN and not forgetting John M0PEK, whose expertise with the pliers made the stand a winner. Not forgetting all the members who came and supported us
SRS Links: Stockport Radio Society www.g8srs.co.uk RSGB - www.rsgb.org RSGB Region 3 www.rsgb-region-3.org.uk UK FM Group Western www.ukfmgw.org.uk Ofcom www.licensing.ofcom.org.uk ARRL - www.arrl.org
Now for a rare photograph
QRZ.com - www.qrz.com UK Repeaters www.ukrepeater.net
not seen by the club for a long time
Raynet - www.raynet-uk.net Summits on the air www.sota.org.uk
The Chairman and The President together representing the club
Local Radio Clubs: GB3PZ.com
A few more images from Narsa 2015 More images are available on our website - www.g8srs.co.uk
Macclesfield Wireless Society GX4MWS Manchester Wireless Society, G5MS Mid Cheshire ARS, G3ZTT North Cheshire RC, G0BAA Northern Amateur Radio Societies Association (NARSA) Oldham Radio Club RSGB Region 3 Website Radio Millennium Lodge, M0RML Rochdale & DARS (R.A.D.A.R.S), G0ROC South Cheshire ARS, G6TW South Lancashire ARC, M0SLR South Manchester Radio & Computing Club The Simpson Amateur Radio Society, M0SRA Warrington Radio Club West Manchester RC, G4MWC
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Review of Events New Members to SRS We would like to officially welcome to our SRS family, Phil Hodges (SWL) (left) and Ian Swindles M0SWZ (right). Phil will be taking his foundation exam in June.
Local Repeaters in and around Stockport 6m
Congratulations to Jack 2E0JEH on passing his morse test SRS would like to congratulate Jack 2E0JEH on passing his morse test at Narsa. Jack undertook the exam to enable him to get an M5 callsign when he passes his advanced examination. Jack will be taking the advanced along with a few other members of SRS.
GB3SX (Stoke on Trent)
2m
GB7MA (Bury)
GB3MN (Stockport)
GB3MP (Denbigh)
GB3VT
(Stoke on Trent)
70cm
GB7DV (St Helens)
GB3CR (Widnes)
GB3LI (Liverpool)
GB3LL (Llandudno)
SRS on Tour to Bletchley Park
GN3MA (Bury)
25 members of SRS recently went on a road trip to Bletchley Park Museum. A thoroughly good day was had by all. Setting off at 8am from Walthew House, and arriving at Bletchley at 11.45 ish (the ‘Dons’ caused a few traffic problems), spending a full afternoon and then leaving at 4pm arriving back at 8pm. A very big thank you go out to Kieron M5KJM for all his hard work in arranging the trip, and we look forward to many more - I think we have now elected Kieron as our trip organiser!!!
GB3MF (Macclesfield)
GB3MR (Stockport)
GB3PZ (Dukinfield)
GB3SM (Stoke on Trent)
GB3ST
GB7WC (Dukinfield)
GB3WP (Hyde)
Well Done Jack
(Stoke on Trent)
23cm
GB3SE (Stoke on Trent)
Not Operational GB3MF
Evan M0TJU & Steve G8YTP Left, Ed 2E0CFM middle, John M0PEK, Alan G0ROW & Heth Right
The Turing Rebuild Project
Here is just a few photos from the day - you can view all the Bletchley images on the following link http://1drv.ms/1DJZ83O
And also a video of the station in action on Youtube -- look under Stockport Radio Society
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All information provided above is sourced from www.ukfmgw.co.uk There is normally a yearly charge for using the repeaters. If you use a repeater on a regular basis please support them by subscribing to them. Individual £12.50 per year Family £20.00 per year
Members Profile
Ray Gerrard - G3MOM/HS0ZDZ Silent Key Former Vice President of the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand under the patronage of His Majesty the King (RAST) Ray Gerrard, G3NOM and HS0ZDZ, passed away at his home in Bangkok peacefully on May 20, 2015 aged 75. His passing follows a heart attack that he had suffered more than a decade earlier.
Membership You can become a member of Stockport Radio Society by completing a membership form and, either emailing it to treasurer@g8srs.co.uk or hand the form to the Treasurer at any Society Meeting.
Payable Annually Dec 1st Senior
£12.00
At the end of January 2005, Ray was discharged from hospital after having partially recovered having been in a coma for six weeks following his heart attack and since then he had been cared for at home by his wife, Lawan, E21UHL. However, Ray never recovered his ability to communicate verbally although he had Ray in his better days responded and reacted to visits by friends, many of them RAST members, who would come to see him regularly.
Family
£12.00
Country
£ 7.00
Pensioner
£ 7.00
Junior
£ 1.00
Shortly after his arrival in Thailand on a work assignment around 1990, Ray became actively involved in the activities of RAST. He became a vice president of the society and he served as secretary for international affairs and as station manager of the society's club station HS0AC when it was located at the Science Museum in Bangkok. Later he would oversee the club station's formal establishment at the Asian Institute of Technology.
£ 2.00 per meeting or an annual meeting admission fee of £36.00
He had been very active on the air, initially using the callsign HS0/G3NOM in Thailand and later as HS0ZDZ which had been issued under the Thailand-UK bilateral reciprocal operating agreement that he had helped to bring about, having acted as a liaison officer between RAST and the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB). At the time of Ray's heart attack in November 2004 he had been busy as the chairman of the organising committee for the 32nd SEANET convention that was to be held in Bangkok. Ray had also participated in several DXpeditions in and around Thailand, including E29AL on Tarutao Island and XZ0A during February, 2000 in Myanmar. He manned the special event station HS2000 to mark the Y2K event on December 31, 1999 as well as serving as a SEANET Net Control Station operator on many occasions. In addition, during the period 2001 - 2004 he wrote and circulated over 120 email newsletters to RAST members on behalf of the society. Buddhist funeral services will be held at Wat Naboon, Klong 7 in Thanyaburi District of Pathum Thani just north of Bangkok from May 21 to May 25 beginning at 7 pm and the cremation will be held on Tuesday, May 26, from 4 pm onwards.
Meeting Admission
’Guide to Membership’. A copy can be requested or can be downloaded from our website
Course Fees Foundation £45.00 - Based on a minimum of 6 students Intermediate £90.00 - Based on a minimum of 4 students Other costs : Kit from Kanga : £26.00 inc P&P Text Book RSGB : £6.99 plus P&P
Advanced £85.00 - Based on a minimum of 4 students
May Ray Gerrard rest in peace. (Wat Naboon is off the Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok highway, some 15.5 kilometres from Phaholyothin Road, and 5.3 Km beyond the Kanchanapisek East ring road. The temple is off the in-bound lane of the highway and motorists should make a U-turn beyond Wat Naboon and drive back some 400 metres before turning left, crossing the klong, to reach the temple.)
A deposit of £20.00 secures your place on a course
RAST website: www.qsl.net/rast
Email courses@g8srs.co.uk to book or request further information.
73 - Tony Waltham, HS0ZDX 4
Prices correct at publication but maybe subject to change
Mike’s Morse Page Morse Code
Mike’s Morse Page Stockport Radio Society have a regular morse class at the start of every society meeting 7pm to 7.30pm run by our own ‘Tintwistle Tapper’ Mike Carter M6MPC Just for Fun - Morse Countdown - Which Member and Call sign is below Using the morse letters below, re re--arrange to solve the conundrum
_ / _ . _ . / ._. / ._ / _. / … / . … / _.__ /_____ / __. / . __. Answer :
Interested in learning Morse (CW), but not sure how or where to start? On our Skills Nights, which take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month, we are planning to start a one hour for Novices, and one hour for the more competent. The novice class will start with the basics of morse and learning a few letters a session. We will have available the morse alphabet for you to take with you and learn in your own time. For the more competent morse class, we will be using two rigs which will be set up using dummy loads, so that Morse can be sent without going beyond the bounds of Walthew House.
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C
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F
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G
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H
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I
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K
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L
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M
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N
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O
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P
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Q
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R
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V
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W
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Phonetic Alphabet Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
These sessions will have members on both rigs assisting the class members with their sending and receiving.
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
These sessions will run every skills night for the foreseeable future.
India
Juliet
If you are interested in joining either the novice class, or the more advanced class, then please contact us on info@g8srs.co.uk or come to one of our meetings and see the ‘Tintwistle Tapper’ in action.
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu
View Mike M6MPC (Tintwistle Tapper) in action on our YouTube Channel Last Issues Answer - frequency 5
HF Air Traffic Control by Evan M0TJU Most of us associate air traffic control (ATC) with a person sitting in front of a radar screen, directing nearby traffic by VHF radio. For your short trips between the UK and the continent, your plane will be handled in such a manner. When travelling further afield, and especially if you’re traversing great expanses of water, radar tracking and line-of-sight communication is not practical. Pilots flying between Europe and the Americas, for instance, will have to somehow speak with air traffic controllers who will be sitting in buildings several hundred kilometres away. The answer to this dilemma is HF (high-frequency) radio; HF signals’ ability to ‘skip’ off the ionosphere allows communication from one shore of, say, the Atlantic to the other. Even in the age of satellites, much long-distance air-ground communication – including all voice traffic – remains on HF, to be potentially picked out of the ether by anyone with an SSB-capable receiver. Transatlantic traffic offers the best listening opportunities for us in the UK, with plenty of activity as well as reasonably-close ground stations and aircraft. ‘Shanwick’ (a combination of Shannon, Ireland, and Prestwick, Scotland) is responsible for the oceanic airspace immediately adjacent to the British Isles, so making their controllers and planes generally audible. North Atlantic airspace is shared with numerous stations, the most notable being Santa Maria (Azores), New York, Gander (Newfoundland) and Reykjavik (Iceland). Most aircraft flying the busy routes between Europe and the USA will pass through the Shanwick and Gander (Newfoundland) control zones, with the 30 west longitudinal being their dividing line. Aircraft en route from Europe to the Caribbean, which take more-southerly tracks, will be looked after by Santa Maria and New York.
Frequencies LF (Low Frequency) 2000m : 135.7 - 137.8Khz
MF (Medium Frequency) 630m : 472 - 479Khz 160m : 1.81 - 2.0Mhz
HF (High Frequency) 80m : 3.5 - 3.8Mhz 60m : Consists of 11 spot frequencies check band plan 40m : 7.0 - 7.2Mhz 30m : 10.1 - 10.15Mhz
Your listening experience can be aided by knowing which of the two dozen listed transatlantic HF air radio frequencies are likely to be active when you’re tuning in. In the late morning/early afternoon, when the surge of USA-bound flights from Europe transits Shanwick’s airspace, frequencies in the following subset will most likely be active: 5616, 5649, 6547, 6595 and 6622kHz (all USB). As the wave passes into Gander’s zone during the afternoon, frequencies such as 8831, 8864, 8879 and 8891 pick up. In the early hours, night owls can hear the Europe-bound wave coming across Gander’s airspace on 5616 and 5649 and through Shanwick’s on 2872 2962 2899 and 3016.
20m : 14 - 14.35Mhz
Happy listening!
Only available to advanced licence holders and also requires a NOV from RSGB
Club Log (HF Ladder)
17m : 18.068 - 18.168Mhz 15m : 21 - 21.45Mhz 12m : 24.89 - 24.99Mhz 10m : 28 - 29.7Mhz
Note for operating on 60m
VHF (Very High Frequency)
If you wish to join Club Log and also get entry into the HF Ladder with the end reward of entry in the HF Ladder competition at the end of the year, and you chance to win a trophy for the year, follow the information below. If you wish to join SRS DXCC league in Clublog, please follow these instructions:
6m : 50 - 52Mhz 4m : 70 - 70.5Mhz 2m : 144.0 - 146.0Mhz
Register your details with Clublog at www.clublog.org
Click ‘settings’ and then go to the ‘clubs’ tab
UHF
Select SRS - Stockport Radio Society and click ‘join club’
70cms : 430.0 - 440Mhz
Your membership of SRS will show as pending until approved by the Administrator
23cms : 1240.0 - 325Mhz
The SRS DXCC League can be viewed from this link http://www.clublog.org/league.php?club=99 6
(Ultra High Frequency)
HF Ladder with Evan M0TJU as at May 21, 2015 CW (Morse) G0SYP M0TJU G3SHF M5KJM M0DCG G3GMM GM4UYZ-SRS G3ZOD
Digimodes (PSK, RTTY, etc.) G0SYP M0TJU GM4UYZ-SRS
Phone (SSB, AM, FM) M5KJM G0ROW G0RXA GM4UYZ-SRS M0TJU G0SYP M0DCG M1PTR
Carsten S. Evan D. Bernard N. Kieron M. Tom S. Eric M. Bob G. Graham S.
160m 80m 0 41 0 14 0 17 0 4 0 8 14 0 0 5 0 1
60m 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
40m 30m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m 6m 62 9 26 24 39 22 38 20 42 9 46 17 40 9 20 0 17 12 26 3 17 1 6 0 0 0 36 10 14 19 11 0 20 2 6 2 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 6 1 0 0 0 0
Total 281 197 99 94 43 21 12 10 757
Carsten S. Evan D. Bob G.
160m 80m 0 10 0 4 0 0
60m 0 0 0
40m 30m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m 6m 29 3 49 10 57 3 28 0 31 6 36 4 30 4 14 0 2 0 11 0 1 0 3 0
Total 189 129 17 335
Kieron M. Alan G. Nigel R. Bob G. Evan D. Carsten S. Tom S. Pete R.
160m 80m 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7 0 6 0 6
60m 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
40m 30m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m 6m 0 0 41 3 44 14 37 0 17 0 19 22 19 17 16 0 0 0 29 0 1 0 29 0 2 0 3 0 29 0 0 0 5 0 8 1 1 3 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 142 115 59 36 18 15 14 6 405
Summary G0SYP M0TJU M5KJM G0ROW G3SHF GM4UYZ-SRS G0RXA M0DCG G3GMM G3ZOD M1PTR
Carsten S. Evan D. Kieron M. Alan G. Bernard N. Bob G. Nigel R. Tom S. Eric M. Graham S. Pete R.
CW
Digi Phone
281 197 94 115 99 12 0 43 21 10 0
189 129 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0
15 18 142 0 0 36 59 14 0 0 6
Total Slots 485 344 236 115 99 65 59 57 21 10 6 1497 7
A big thank you to Evan M0TJU for his continuing help and support with the HF Ladder and various reports for QUA
Other Information / Contacts
Our Next Courses Foundation Next dates for the Foundation course are Sat & Sun 13/14 June and the following Saturday 20th June. If you wish to book a place on the course, or know someone
Contact Details Stockport Radio Society Walthew House 112 Shaw Heath Stockport SK2 6QS 07506 904422
who would be interested, please contact courses@g8srs.co.uk.
SRS Emails
Advanced Our next tutorials takes place in Oct/Nov with the examination in Dec 2015 . If you are interested in taking the next course in late 2015, please contact Alan G0ROW at a society meeting, or via courses@g8srs.co.uk
Request for Items Wanted A request has been made for me to put a note in QUA for items wanted. If you have any of the items below please contact me and I will forward on Eric G3GMM’s personal details
Ex-gov Small Knife Swith. AM Ref No 10F/127 (These operate from side to side, from central arm, size 4x3” base
Ex-USA tub unit, empty, butchered or otherwise for 1950 project
Trio/Kenwood 35/35a Hand Mike
General Info@g8srs.co.uk Secretary secretary@g8srs.co.uk Treasurer treasurer@g8srs.co.uk Website / QUA srswebsite@g8srs.co.uk Training Courses courses@g8srs.co.uk Skills Nights/Clothing info@g8srs.co.uk Contesting peakcontestgroup@g8srs.co.uk
Another SRS Road Trip - Newark Hamfest - 25 / 26th September 2015. We are looking at going on Saturday 26th September. If you are interested, please let either Kieron M5KJM or Tony M0SAV know so that we sort out numbers and hiring of the coach. Further details will be available at the society meetings.
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