Kempton Park & RTTY

All, I hope everyone enjoyed Tony's intersting talk last night on restoring broadcast recievers. I will be keeping an eye out for potential receivers.

This email is just to keep you up to date with our planned events and activites.

This Sunday (27th) the club will be running a stall at the Kempton Park Rally. http://www.g4cdy.co.uk/

This is indoors (So you won't get wet if it rains) and is our closest event.

If you plan to attend do pay us a visit, we will have lots of components and other intersting items for sale at competitive prices. Of course buying from SHARES you will be supporting the club.


We have decided to re-start a club net (Hurrah I hear you say). The net will be slightly different as we will be using RTTY (No bothersome speaking involved).

Details of the net are as follows -

Frequency - 144.500 Mhz

Time 17:30GMT (6:30pm) Sunday evenings.

Mode will be AFSK 45.45 baud – Mark tone = 2125 Hz Space tone 2295 Hz.

First date for the net will be Sunday the 27^th September. The net will run for an initial month to gauge interest. Content of the transmissions will include propagation forecasts and club events in addition to any other subjects club members wish to discuss.

Don't let the RTTY part put you off. Its very simple to install RTTY on your PC and get going on receive by connecting the audio output from your tranceiver to the soundcard of your PC. MMTTY which is a very easy to use RTTY program can be downloaded for free at - http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/files/programs/MMTTY166G.exe

The MM website is at - http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/mmtty/

Once you have recive working information for a very simple interface for TX can be found at - http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc/interface.html

Once you have this working you will find it can also be used to monitor or work DX on HF.. have a listen on 20M around 14.085 MHz 73 and hope to see you Sunday

Rex - G8UBJ & Tony - G7DGW

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SHARES radio club meet at the Coach House, Church Hill Road, Surbiton on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 8:00pm - 9:30pm

We are a short walk from Surbiton mainline station.

Here is a map showing our loaction -