Here is Part One of a bumper update of a very busy month within the Southdown radio club community. Our weekly meetings up at our X NATO Beachy Head Shack average around 6 to 8 club members in attendance, however some meetings well exceed this number as did this week’s Wednesday Radio Extravaganza! If there …
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Our Satruday’s session up at the Beachy site went very well and a good time was had by all. Satruday’s meeting was more HAM than RADIO, with a massive fry up of food, that took a while to cook up and eat. Chef of the day was Barry G8DXU and the food was well cooked. …
Our Wednesday meetings down at the Cafe Continental and Beachy site were very well attended with the cafe owner kindly extending our table and proving more seats for his excellent and amazing low priced food. The Beachy site was packed once again and Barry G8DXU brought along and tested out some newly purchased test equipment, …
Our Saturday trip up to the beachy shack went very well and the weather was warm enough to wear a t-shirt for best part of the day. We focused on the HF bands and a few local VHF contacts were made. More photos from last weeks beachy experience. The first being of a rather impressive …
And the beat goes on with yet another busy weekend and Wednesday up on the hill. Henry 2E0IAK brought along one his of SEMI portable radios; see our BLOG for more details and we tucked into a LARGE meals ready to eat mince beef and onions, supplied by Henry, that Barry G8DXU with his cooking …
Saturday the 11th of October started with an early arrival at BHRS and the intention of calling into the VMARS 80m AM net at 0830. The weather was not particularly helpful with a strong wind and driving rain slowing progress in deploying the inverted V dipole. The 2 metre ten element beam had also sustained a broken director …
David Cunningham’s Talk about his life in the world of commercial radio and its technological changes over the years, went very well and was enjoyed by all. What more can I say, other than that Davids presentation was of a broadcast quality. It was good to see our club room packed out, once again, with …
If Carlsberg made radio clubs they probably would have made one like the Southdown Amateur Radio Society…. A new addition to the shack being the Carlsberg brass wall clock and barometer, found in most radio shacks, back in days gone by. The beer pump top with Carlsberg Export Larger on, was brought along by Barry …
Last Saturday’s 2M Trophy Contest was fun and some very interesting stations were both worked and received. The Isle of Man being one of them and Guernsey another. Again distances of around 700 kilometers were worked on around 25w using a 1980’s IC271 and a 1970’s J-Beam. A good time was had by all and …