Archive for July, 2011
CARC MEETING March 2011
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An Introduction to Microwaves Part 1 by Derek Atter G3GRO
For various reasons, it was necessary to have a change of programme for the March meeting. Without a speaker we had to find a replacement at relatively short notice. As valiant as ever, Derek G3GRO stepped up to the plate. His presentation, originally scheduled for the May meeting was titled “An Introduction to Microwaves – Part 1.”
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Following the recent success of Brain and Howard taking part in a 2m QRP contest from the CARC clubhouse, I was inspired to try my hand.
I had intended to spend the majority of the evening of Tuesday 5 July sorting out the equipment returned from Kent after the RSGB VHF NFD contest of the previous weekend. However it occurred to me that I had everything to hand to make a good stab at that evening’s RSGB 2m UKAC contest. These run every Tuesday evening of the year with the first Tuesday of the month being 2m, the second 70cm, the third 23 and 13cms, the fourth Tuesday for 6m and when there is a fifth Tuesday in the month this is used for 4m.
You can find the calender here http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/
The rules are fairly simple with the normal 1pt per kilometer worked multiplied by the number of unique locator squares of UK contacts i.e. IO91, IO92, JO03 etc. You can of course work European stations and these do count for points (the number of km) but their locator squares are not counted towards the multiplier. This is deliberately designed to encourage UK stations to work each other and increase activity, at the same time giving stations all over the UK a fair chance at doing well.
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