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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.

It’s taken a long time but post-Covid we’ve found a new home which tentatively seems to be suitable so we’ve adapted our hybrid approach. We’re now holding one meeting online on the first Tuesday of the month and another at a school outbuilding in the Hammersmith area on the third Tuesday. In the summer months – May, June, July – we’ll instead have both meetings at the school, and we may change meetings in August and December when we won’t have use of the school room.

We also organise some other events like field days, taking part in the 145-Alive events and contests.

As we have currently have no major expenses, regular meetings are open to non-members but for the time being membership is a bargain at just £2 a month. If you’d like to join in look at the Events calendar for forthcoming meetings and the next meeting announcement on the front page where the online link will be published on the day.

The Chesham and District Amateur Radio Society is hosting a presentation on the subject of ‘A Pictorial Introduction to Data Modes’ by Mike Richards G4WNC on Wednesday 29th September 2021 at 20:00.

As a member of the Radio Society of Harrow, Godfrey received an invitation and contacted Malcolm Appleby the secretary of Chesham who confirmed that HARS members would be welcome.

The link is:

Date: Wednesday 29th September
Time: 20:00 BST
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86048047050?pwd=bFZCdTRyL1BoU1dNM291UTloZFpodz09
Meeting ID: 860 4804 7050 Meeting Passcode: CDARS

It’s suggested that we join the Zoom meeting using our names, call signs and an indication that we’re with Hammersmith ARS so the host knows who we are before admitting us to the meeting.