Wednesday up at the Beachy Head Site and the atmosphere was buzzing with many radio contacts from all over the UK and Europe on VHF and the world on HF. Teas and coffees served all round and an outside rag chew in the sunshine, from a radio site that is clear of the external noises …
This report is in retrospect as I wished to thank Jenny Clark for an excellent talk at this months club meeting and her live bat demonstration of the UK’s bats and their echo sounding abilities, using a bat monitor that was able to pick up the high frequency sounds. It was a full house with …
Another good day up on the hill, with plenty on interesting contacts on 2m, all modes. Our day started off with a breakfast down at the Continental Cafe in Seaside and then up on the hill at the Beachy shack. We set up the beam and wound up our more than a tenner mask, then …
The logo on our banner above is a copy of an old logo created back in the 1980′s. Over the years coming up to our clubs 50th anniversary, I will be posting as much history as I can find. The last couple of weeks have seen more visitors up to the beachy site, enjoying the …
Last night’s club meeting went very well and Graham Somerville of BHI gave an interesting talk about the development of “Noise reduction systems” and their rang of products. Graham gave a demonstration at the end of the talk using one of our clubs radios and the results were astounding. The year is flying by and …
Four words that describe this months radio activity and they are BUSY – FUN – RELAXED – CONTACTS Its been a great month activity wise for our club with some sunny days up at the Beachy Shack; with many new visitors and days out at the rallies and shows. Here are a few of the …
The following is just a short report on the activities at BHRS for Saturday 5th July 2014. Andy M6GND opened up the site at midday and set up the Clansman RT353 to monitor 51.60MHz.our usual calling channel. He then connected the Ground Mounted Monopole antenna which is not only very quickly deployed but has proven …
Activity so far this week with more to follow. The beachy site has been active again and the weather has been glorious up on those rolling downs. Here you can or cannot see us in camo mode! Andy M6GND brought up some meals ready to eat rations up to add to military feel. We plan …
Needless to say it’s been another active week here in SARS and the weather has been glorious up on the downs. We fixed the luffing cable on the Tennamask and wound it up to the max as it was an almost wind free day. Here is the antenna up against a clear blue sky. We …
Its been yet another busy week with our clubs BBQ at Peter G6GVM‘s QTH and a trip up to our Beachy Heady site testing out one of a few beams, the rotator and SWR for some contesting later on in the year. The weather on both occasions was glorious sunshine and good times were had …