Category: Meetings

Main topic to discuss is whether and when to have another online on a different day of the week for those who can’t make Fridays.

Here’s the link – please make sure you’re showing video and a recognisable name or callsign so we know you’re not a bot.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDJjYzUyODItOTc3Ny00OTZiLTllNTgtNWI3MjY3YzBlODVk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2294025a27-2fa8-411c-ad13-5f8ef10ef21e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223e518b26-255c-42e5-abff-0e35e8b1b428%22%7d

Please remember to turn the volume of any radios right down or off completely to avoid confusing the noise reduction in your online meeting client.

A relatively quiet meeting (but it is the middle of winter) but again there were interesting discussions about aerials and QRP transceivers, and Cristian brought along a superb little device which we’ll link in the resources section.
Someone (David?) proposed that we consider the Pubs And Clubs On The Air weekend in mid-May so we’re searching for a friendly pub, not too far away and ideally one which a member has some connection with, even if only an occasional regular, where we could put a gazebo and a modest mast outside, and run a mains lead through the window in exchange for buying their beer and food? Suggestions welcome!

Usual plan, hope to see you there. If you’ve built a QRP kit and haven’t shown it off then now’s your chance.

We were joined by a guest, Igor, who in the space of weeks has moved from testing his own HF SDR receiver to getting a licence and trying all sorts of modes. Miniature QRP kits were discussed (again) as they seem to be appearing thick and fast, and maybe those who’ve built them could post the links, price and (at least) a one-line description of what they do in the Google group and we’ll put it in the resources section of the website.

Next meeting will be in The Pear Tree on Wednesday 23rd from about 7pm and it would be great to see some more of those QRP kits.

Usual plan, bring your aerial and data woes.

And your diaries so we can choose a date for an alternate online meeting.

A relatively quiet but enjoyable meeting mostly discussing antennas in many forms.

A good topic for the next online meeting two Fridays from now would be APRS which as I learned recently is a much broader field than I first thought so while I could do an introduction it would help if someone either takes over halfway or continues at a later meeting? Volunteers?

And talking of volunteers, do we have a volunteer for ‘communications’ – filing club info and meeting notices with Radcom, Radio User, Practical Wireless, etc?

Usual plan and maybe discuss an alternative night online meeting.

All sorts of stuff was discussed but mainly revolved around positioning modes such as APRS and Gregor gave an impromptu presentation on meteo balloon tracking, including dissecting a recovered tracker. We’ll almost certainly revisit this subject.

Next meeting is the Pear Tree pub meet on Wednesday 26th but as it seems that since a bit more normality has returned some people have other events on Fridays so we’re thinking of having an extra online meeting on a midweek night for a couple of months and seeing how it goes. Discussion over in the Google Group at https://groups.google.com/g/hars-friends

Our first meeting of the new year will be this Friday, online using Jitsi and as usual a link will be posted nearer the time.

If you have any ideas for topics that either you’d be prepared to talk about for as little as ten minutes or you think someone else has done and you’d like to hear them speak about.