Next meeting & Pics

All,
Thanks to Phil for his talk on the One Valve receiver.


Here is our meeting schedule. The next meeting is on Wednesday the 11th November where Rex will be giving a presentation on antenna modelling software.

Evan will be giving up a presentation on Operating Digital Modes on HF on the 25th

11/11/09 Antenna modelling with MMANA-GAL
25/11/09 Operating Digital Modes on HF
09/12/09 On the air/ RTTY
23/12/09 No meeting
13/01/10 AGM
27/01/10 VLF Demonstration and talk
10/02/10 On the air evening
24/02/10 DF Demonstration
10/03/10 Guest Speakers e.g. BDXC

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 -

Next Shares meeting 28th October

All,
Here is our meeting schedule. We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is on Wednesday the 28th October where Phil Moss will be giving a presentation on a single valve receiver.

28/10/09 A single valve receiver
11/11/09 Antenna modelling with MM-ANA
25/11/09 Operating Digital Modes on HF
09/12/09 On the air/ RTTY
23/12/09 No meeting
13/01/10 AGM
27/01/10 VLF Demonstration and talk
10/02/10 On the air evening
24/02/10 DF Demonstration
10/03/10 Guest Speakers e.g. BDXC

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 -

A New Call!

Congratulations to James Sales who has passed both his foundation and intermediate exams to take the call - 2E0TTL

VY 73 and well done James, we look forward to working you in the near future.

Schedule

All,
Here is our meeting schedule. We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is on Wednesday the 14th October.

23/09/09 Restoration of valve broadcast receivers
14/10/09
28/10/09 A single valve receiver - Phil Moss
11/11/09 Antenna modelling with MM-ANA - Rex Lester
25/11/09
09/12/09 On the air/ RTTY
23/12/09 No meeting
13/01/10 AGM
27/01/10 VLF Demonstration and talk
10/02/10 On the air evening
24/02/10 DF Demonstration
10/03/10 Guest Speakers e.g. BDXC

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 -

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 -

Next SHARES meeting - Wednesday the 23rd September

All,
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday the 23rd September.

This meeting Tony G7DGW will be giving a presentation -

RESTORING VALVE BROACAST RECEIVERS

From now on to keep everyone up to date and make it easier for potential new club members I will include directions and dates for future club meeting on each post of the blog.

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 -

A day out

Our day out on the 27th June was a big success.

We now have a G5RV and long wire antennas installed at the site so in future we will have less work to set up.

The day gave us a good opportunity to fully survey the site and we have found a good place to operate from which is away from the road. And of course our survey included a visit to the local pub which met with the team's approval.

As Tony already observed, the site is very quiet from an electrical point of view (although not as quiet as Phil's FT-101 would have us believe :-)

Thank you to all who participated and I hope you have now all recovered (especially the antenna gang).

Next visit in addition to the current equipment, we need to take -

• A rubbish sack
• More catering (BBQ?) and press the kettle James brought into service!
• insect repellent (I have some spray stuff from Australia that works)

73 M0SHA