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veryone is welcome to bring their own equipment to show or test, but if it requires table space please drop us a line so we can coordinate what goes where, both in the room and outside. Please check with Dave or JJ before setting up your own equipment and operating because we’ve had some near misses working the same bands and even the same frequencies, and also problems with sound levels in the room.

The evening will run from 7:00pm until 10:00pm, but the room is usually available from about 6:30 onward if anyone wants to arrive slightly earlier (e.g. to set up any kit).

Anyone coming by car is encouraged to use the gated carpark (to avoid neighbours complaining about parking). The roads in the area tend to be very busy until at least 6:30pm, so don’t arrive too early.

If you’re using Google Maps or Waze and probably others, it seems that Google has decided that the entrance you need is in another street as two people ended up there last month, so make sure you’re going to St. Dunstan’s Road, W6 8RB and you need the gate in the southwest corner nearest to Beryl Road.

To access the room (and car park) you will need to be let in through the security gates. Once you’re right outside the gate just summon someone using a handheld on 145.500MHz. If you can’t use a radio for entry then contact us in advance and we’ll provide a mobile number you can call instead.

Wi-Fi is available in the room (although it’s sometimes problematic so we’ve had to rely on tethering), along with a toilet, a kettle if anyone wants hot drinks (you’ll need to bring your own cups & beverages) and you can bring your own snacks and drinks, alcoholic or otherwise.

Don’t forget that the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook, Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.

As usual check the Discord server for up to the minute info and chat. Email for an invitation link if you don’t have one.

Adomas brought his shinny new Yaesu FTx-1 (just the field bit) so we could work through the general operation, as it packs a lot into a small area of screen. If anyone’s in the same position we recommend watching the YouTubes made by David at Martin Lynch.

We made a few contacts but failed to reach Alastair at his new QTH.

We also met Thelma who got her Foundation licence while at University of Surrey, who have an active electronics and radio club.

Don’t forget that the next couple of months we’ll hold both meetings at the school to take advantage of the lighter (and hopefully warmer and drier) evenings.

Everyone is welcome to bring their own equipment to show or test, but if it requires table space please drop us a line so we can coordinate what goes where, both in the room and outside. Please check with Dave or JJ before setting up your own equipment and operating because we’ve had some near misses working the same bands and even the same frequencies, and also problems with sound levels in the room.

The evening will run from 7:00pm until 10:00pm, but the room is usually available from about 6:30 onward if anyone wants to arrive slightly earlier (e.g. to set up any kit).

Anyone coming by car is encouraged to use the gated carpark (to avoid neighbours complaining about parking). The roads in the area tend to be very busy until at least 6:30pm, so don’t arrive too early.

If you’re using Google Maps or Waze and probably others, it seems that Google has decided that the entrance you need is in another street as two people ended up there last month, so make sure you’re going to St. Dunstan’s Road, W6 8RB and you need the gate in the southwest corner nearest to Beryl Road.

To access the room (and car park) you will need to be let in through the security gates. Once you’re right outside the gate just summon someone using a handheld on 145.500MHz. If you can’t use a radio for entry then contact us in advance and we’ll provide a mobile number you can call instead.

Wi-Fi is available in the room, along with a toilet, a kettle if anyone wants hot drinks (you’ll need to bring your own cups & beverages) and you can bring your own snacks and drinks, alcoholic or otherwise.

Don’t forget that the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook, Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.

As usual check the Discord server for up to the minute info and chat. Email for an invitation link if you don’t have one.

Link to be sent on the day as usual and also posted in the Discord group.

No particular topics so bring your ideas, although we’d welcome feedback about the summer month meetings. The current proposal is to take advantage of the longer summer evenings as we did last year but by switching the online meeting to take place at the school. Would anyone feel disenfranchised by losing the online meeting for a few months? Would three meetings in a month be too much? And given that the school is closed in August and by September the weather is changing and people are busy getting kids off to school etc, when does summer begin? May or June?

Keep an eye on the Events calendar as the school is currently unable to confirm meeting dates more than a few weeks in advance so we may have to change some dates as we move to holding two meetings a month at the school during the summer months. The second meeting this month being a case in point due to the school’s half-term break

Incidentally, the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook or Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.  Meetings are usually easy to schedule manually as the online meeting is on the first Tuesday of the month and the meeting at the school is on the third Tuesday, but subject to change because of school holidays. Setting up synchronisation will make it much easier.

Hope to see you on Tuesday.

A small turnout but fun nonetheless.

Rakesh brought a new Chinese 2m rig which we tested with Alastair’s j-pole and seemed to work well. Conversations covered APRS and WSPR tracking, and, er, space toilets.

The next meeting is online, on Tuesday 7th April and the meeting at the school on Tuesday 21st April.

Everyone is welcome to bring their own equipment to show or test, but if it requires table space please drop us a line so we can coordinate what goes where, both in the room and outside. Please check with Dave or JJ before setting up your own equipment and operating because we’ve had some near misses working the same bands and even the same frequencies, and also problems with sound levels in the room.

The evening will run from 7:00pm until 10:00pm, but the room is usually available from about 6:30 onward if anyone wants to arrive slightly earlier (e.g. to set up any kit).

Anyone coming by car is encouraged to use the gated carpark (to avoid neighbours complaining about parking). The roads in the area tend to be very busy until at least 6:30pm, so don’t arrive too early.

If you’re using Google Maps or Waze and probably others, it seems that Google has decided that the entrance you need is in another street as two people ended up there last month, so make sure you’re going to St. Dunstan’s Road, W6 8RB and you need the gate in the southwest corner nearest to Beryl Road.

To access the room (and car park) you will need to be let in through the security gates. Once you’re right outside the gate just summon someone using a handheld on 145.500MHz. If you can’t use a radio for entry then contact us in advance and we’ll provide a mobile number you can call instead.

Wi-Fi is available in the room (although it’s sometimes problematic so we’ve had to rely on tethering), along with a toilet, a kettle if anyone wants hot drinks (you’ll need to bring your own cups & beverages) and you can bring your own snacks and drinks, alcoholic or otherwise.

Don’t forget that the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook, Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.

As usual check the Discord server for up to the minute info and chat. Email for an invitation link if you don’t have one.

Link to be sent on the day as usual and also posted in the Discord group.

No particular topics so bring your ideas.

Keep an eye on the Events calendar as the school is currently unable to confirm meeting dates more than a few weeks in advance so we may have to change some dates as we move to holding two meetings a month at the school during the summer months. The second meeting this month being a case in point due to the school’s half-term break

Incidentally, the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook or Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.  Meetings are usually easy to schedule manually as the online meeting is on the first Tuesday of the month and the meeting at the school is on the third Tuesday, but subject to change because of school holidays. Setting up synchronisation will make it much easier.

Hope to see you on Tuesday.

A modest turnout but quite an action-packed meeting nonetheless. Xian brought his APRS treasure hunt generator, more about that elsewhere. I brought my RadTel 950Pro which I’d not used with APRS before and successfully used it to track the treasure hunters.

We worked with Rakesh on his FT8 issues but with only partial success as the bands were dying and we found a quirk with his FT-950 in that switching to PKT mode on 40m forces it to LSB despite FT8 being USB.

We had some interference from pirates on the 2m calling channel – a nearby father and daughter appear to have acquired some radios (probably the dreaded Baofengs) set to that frequency and seemed unaware of the nature of the band. They didn’t respond in any way to announcements on the channel so probably have a tone selected too leaving us wondering how and why?

The next meeting is online, just next Tuesday due to the short month. In future should we be advised that the school room is unavailable on the third Tuesday we’ll swap the meetings round to prevent clashes in people’s calendars.

Note that this meeting is a week later than originally scheduled as the school have advised us that due to their half term break they won’t be able to give us access.

Everyone is welcome to bring their own equipment to show or test, but if it requires table space please drop us a line so we can coordinate what goes where, both in the room and outside. Please check with Dave or JJ before setting up your own equipment and operating because we’ve had some near misses working the same bands and even the same frequencies, and also problems with sound levels in the room.

The evening will run from 7:00pm until 10:00pm, but the room is usually available from about 6:30 onward if anyone wants to arrive slightly earlier (e.g. to set up any kit).

Anyone coming by car is encouraged to use the gated carpark (to avoid neighbours complaining about parking). The roads in the area tend to be very busy until at least 6:30pm, so don’t arrive too early.

If you’re using Google Maps or Waze and probably others, it seems that Google has decided that the entrance you need is in another street as two people ended up there last month, so make sure you’re going to St. Dunstan’s Road, W6 8RB and you need the gate in the southwest corner nearest to Beryl Road.

To access the room (and car park) you will need to be let in through the security gates. Once you’re right outside the gate just summon someone using a handheld on 145.500MHz. If you can’t use a radio for entry then contact us in advance and we’ll provide a mobile number you can call instead.

Wi-Fi is available in the room (although it’s sometimes problematic so we’ve had to rely on tethering), along with a toilet, a kettle if anyone wants hot drinks (you’ll need to bring your own cups & beverages) and you can bring your own snacks and drinks, alcoholic or otherwise.

Don’t forget that the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook, Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.

As usual check the Discord server for up to the minute info and chat. Email for an invitation link if you don’t have one.

Link to be sent on the day as usual and also posted in the Discord group.

Keep an eye on the Events calendar as the school is currently unable to confirm meeting dates more than a few weeks in advance so we may have to change some dates as we move to holding two meetings a month at the school during the summer months. The second meeting this month being a case in point due to the school’s half-term break

Incidentally, the Events calendar on our website https://www.m0xhs.uk/events/ has some links at the bottom that allow you to synchronise it with Outlook or Google or iCalendar so meetings will automatically appear in your normal calendar.  Meetings are usually easy to schedule manually as the online meeting is on the first Tuesday of the month and the meeting at the school is on the third Tuesday, but subject to change because of school holidays. Setting up synchronisation will make it much easier.

Hope to see you on Tuesday.