Cockenzie & Port Seton

Amateur Radio Club Elements

Cockenzie & Port Seton

Amateur Radio Club is

affiliated to the Radio So-

ciety of Great Britain and

holds the call signs

MM0CPS and GM2T which

are used for our special

event and contest entries.

The Club was formed by

Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ in

1984, to help the local am-

ateurs get to know each

other.

Far from being just a local

club we have members

regularly attending from

the Borders, Dumfries,

Strathclyde, Fife and New-

castle.

The Club meets on the first

Friday of every month

(Second Friday of January)

in the lounge of the

Thorntree Inn on the old

Cockenzie High Street from

7pm till late.

Editorial

In this issue

V o l u m e 1 9

11 No ve mb e r 2 0 11

November, it is nearly Santa Claus time where we have to think about what we are going to put in our letter to him and hopefully he will deliver it on Christmas Day... well we can dream can’t we. This year has certainly just disappeared for me, having said that, it has been a very busy year work wise which has left me limited time on the radio and Club matters. Overall it really has been a case of where has the year gone? They say it is an age thing, no comments from you all out there, but the years do seem to fly past so quickly and it only seems five minutes ago that I was trying to put a 2011 Events Calen-dar together and here I am now doing the same for 2012.

What has happened over the past month re-garding club events? We started with an evening where I delivered a small presenta-tion called Morse Night. The aim to gauge who was interested in learning CW. I’m glad to say there is quite an interest and you can read more about this in the newsletter. The last contest is CQWW SSB, which we will have done from Barns Ness and as I write this it is still to happen.

On the training front the last Foundation Course candidates sat their exam on the 8th October and glad to say all passed with flying colours. I am now delivering the Intermediate Course and the 4 candidates take their exam on the 19th November so I hope you will go along with me and wish them all the very best for the exam. Regarding my next planned course, the Advanced Course, which is planned to start on the 3rd December I am still looking for candidates so if you know of any

then get them to contact me.

There are also Foundation and Intermediate courses planned for early 2012... If you know of any one interested in any of the courses can you get them to get in touch ASAP so I can get them booked in.

This month we have a talk by Geoff MM5AHO on his Maritime Mobile Lighthouse Weekend on the 11th November and the following week on the 18th November Len GM0ONX (Region 1 Regional Manager) gives a talk on “Planning Permission”, both talks are at our usual loca-tion in the Community Centre. I hope you will all make an effort to come along and listen to the talks. Certainly Geoff’s one will be enter-taining and Len’s will be of great interest if you are thinking about applying for Planning Permission as he is the RSGB representative who deals with these issues. Lastly, starting Monday 14th November for the next 6 Mon-days the CW training will begin, see further in the newsletter for fuller details, so hopefully those who are interested will attend the eve-nings.

Lastly we have our Christmas Night out in December, and this year we are going for a Chinese Meal in the Dragon Way, Port Seton. This is your last chance if you want to go, so please come and join those who are going and have a good fun night, it only costs £25 a head (your own drinks are not included) which by today’s standards is very cheap in-deed. I should also say that I need the money for the evening by the December Club Night (2nd December) so thanks in advance for your assistance. If you want to go let me know ASAP, thanks. As always please check the

CHRISTMAS NIGHT OUT P.2

2ND DF HUNT P.3

RSGB FIELD DAY UBN REPORT P.4

MORSE NIGHT P. 6

MORSE AND MY MOTHER P.8

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE P.9

EVENT CALENDAR P.10

CLUBLOG TABLE 9.10

CHRISTMAS NIGHT OUT

events column for full details.

Last thing, I am still looking for ideas for next years Events Cal-endar so please forward any that you have so I can complete the 2012 celendar.

I feel that I have missed something but I can’t think what it might be, old age and senility creeping in I think!!! That’s it then, enjoy the newsletter this month and I hopefully will see you all at this month’s coming events.

Bob GM4UYZ

DRAGON WAY at Port Seton

Saturday 10th December @ 20:00

I have booked the DRAGON WAY at Port Seton for Satur-day 10th December @ 20:00 and quite a few have al-ready decided to come along for what is usually a good night out.

This year I took the decision to book a CHINESE MEAL and the reason for this is that I have a busy couple of months coming up where I know that I will be working away from home so my time to find something else is very limited....

For new club members the night is designed so that you and your partner, XYL or whatever has a night out...no children and a chance to meet other club members and their partners. We as a club take part in events where we are away or doing our radio thing so this is a family event where everyone can join in and also get to know each other.

For the moment I am working on a cost of £25 per head, although this might not be final it gives a rough guide.

Last year it covered a meal of your choice and 1 drink.

So a few questions and actions below and I would appre-ciate if you would answer as it helps me enormously with the planning...

DO YOU WANT TO ATTEND A CHRISTMAS NIGHT OUT? YES/NO

If YES how many will be going?

Can you let me know as soon as possible

I would also appreciate if I can have the full amount from each person going by the December Club night (2nd December) or before. I want to enjoy the evening myself and I do not want to be going round everyone chasing for money so your help here would be much ap-preciated.

Thanks.....

Bob GM4UYZ

bob.gm4uyz@talktalk.net

2nd 144MHz DF HUNT

Friday 23rd September

This year again we had decided to have two DF Nights in the events calendar, for once it was an excellent evening weather wise which makes the event more enjoyable. The days leading up to the Friday were poor to say the least so it was a major worry it was going to stay that way, but it didn’t. The difference between or first DF night in May and this one was this time it was done in the darkness. That in itself certainly added to the fun of trying to find that elusive fox. A new fox again for this event was Bob GM4IKT. Like the other previ-ous foxes a notification was sent, this time a text, before the event started made sure that everything was in order before the start of the DF Night.

Well the 6 teams that took part this time as-sembled as in past years, at the Ship Inn Car Park. The teams consisted of Cephas SWL studying for his MM3 or MM6 call sign, Nick MM0NJC & Robin MM0VTV in car 1, Cambell MM0DXC and Paul MM0VPR in car 2, Gavin GM4GJV and his wife Janice GM1FAF in car 3, Ricky GM1PLY and Liz 2M0GLD in car 4 and lastly Robbie MM3RBC, Billy 2M0OAN (Robbie’s Dad) and lastly myself GM4UYZ in car 5. All of the teams for this DF Hunt used mostly a 2 element beam. Over the years a lot of people have really enjoyed taking part but alas you all seem to be missing……

At the pre-requisite time of the 19:00 start we all went our separate ways to try and catch the elusive fox. I headed this year to Spittal where we took my first bearing, and could hear Bob in an easterly direction so a good start... From there I headed off up to the Garlton Monument and again a bearing to-wards North Berwick but still a bit wide to get it absolutely accurate. Down to Drem station but nothing heard, then to Fenton Barns still nothing, then to Dirleton and nothing...this was strange!!! Decided to then go towards North Berwick but via Kingston and at last got a signal but not strong. We then moved to the West car Park at the bottom of North Berwick Law and again nothing. Decision to move round to the east side of the law and what a signal.... close we thought and this time pointing back west so we decided to head back towards Kingston but by another route,

again taking another bearing which again pointed west so we were getting close. Then suddenly came on Ricky and Liz and I stopped for a chat to then see Bob tucked up behind them. They had just found Bob but hadn’t had any chance to get away. We were the third car to find him..... The time was now 20:21 and with we headed back to Port Seton and the Thorntree.

Bob was found by Cambell MM0DXC and Paul MM0VPR at 20:00 followed by Ricky GM1PLY and Liz 2M0GLD at 20:18, then Robbie MM3RBC, Billy 2M0OAN and myself GM4UYZ at 20:21 and then Cephas SWL, Nick MM0NJC & Robin MM0VTV and sadly Gavin GM4GJV and his wife Janice GM1FAF didn’t find Bob but it turned out they were so, so close.

Congratulations to Cambell MM0DXC and Paul MM0VPR for being first. They were presented with the “Hybszer Trophy” in the Thorntree Inn. A massive thank you from us all to Bob for taking on the role of the fox and once again producing another fun packed night. Also thanks to everyone who turned up I know from all your comments you all seemed to enjoy it so hopefully you will all come back for the next DF night in May 2012.

Those of you who do not take part you do not know what you are missing. Believe you me DF’ing is not as easy as you think, give it a try and you will see what I mean.

Congratulations again to the winners and commiserations to the rest of us.

Bob GM4UYZ

Thanks to the sterling

work by M0RNR, our club

has been added to the

excellent Clublog system

developed by Michael

Wells G7VJR.

www.clublog.org

The system allows mem-

bers to upload their logs

in ADIF format and have

them displayed in a table

with all the other club

members.

Clublog also has great

facilities for tracking your

DXCC status etc so is well

worth taking the time to

register and get your log

uploaded.

To update your log with

the next set of contacts

(SSB, CW or Data) you can

simply upload your whole

log again and the system

will take care of the dupli-

cates. Alternatively you

can export the bits you

want from your own log

and just upload that.

The tables we’ll publish

here will be the club, fil-

tered by the current year,

so everyone starts a new

year at 0 contacts.

Club Attire

The club has a design for

Club Tee-shirts, Polo-

shirts, Sweat-Shirts, Fleec-

es and Jackets and all of

these can be obtained

from the address below.

When making an order

please quote ‘Cockenzie &

Port Seton Amateur Radio

Club’ as this will ensure

that the Club Logo will be

placed on the required

ordered garments.

If you wish to add your call

-sign to the logo then

please ask at the time of

the order.

Cost will depend on gar-

ment and should cover the

garment and logo, call-sign

addition will be extra.

Order from:

PATRICIA BEWSEY DESIGNS,

UNIT 11,

FENTON BARNS RETAIL

VILLAGE,

FENTON BARNS,

NORTH BERWICK,

EAST LOTHIAN

EH39 5BW

Tel/Fax: 01620 850788

Mobile: 07970 920431

2011 RSGB VHF FIELD DAY UBN REPORT

Below is what was submitted as our entry in the contest

Contest : RSGB VHF Field Day Contest

Callsign : MM0CPS/P

Mode : MIXED

Category : Multi Operator - Multi Transmitter (MM)

Locator : IO84BT

BAND QSO DUP LOC POINTS AVG PTS AVG DIS

--------------------------------------------

50 145 3 39 68676 473.6 478.9

70 112 0 25 33182 296.3 296.3

144 363 2 39 106572 293.6 294.7

432 82 1 22 21759 265.4 268.7

--------------------------------------------

TOTAL 702 6 125 230189 327.9 330.0

============================================

TOTAL SCORE : 230 189

Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations

UBN INFORMATION The is the first time ever that feedback has been given on where points have been lost with regard to the entry in the above contest. I think getting the UBN file’s advantage is that it can help identify problem areas with the operating, not that it is finger pointing as that is not the intention but as an aid to aim for ZERO errors. This year we lost 3.36% of our submitted score so the aim for 2012 will be 0% although in practice it will probably never be done. ************************** Summary ***************************

702 Claimed QSO before checking (does not include duplicates)

678 Final QSO after checking reductions

230189 Claimed QSO points

222452 Final QSO points

230189 Claimed score

222452 Final score

-3.36% Score reduction

Areas where there were errors...

6 duplicates

4 broken calls (4-144MHz)

6 broken locator (1-50MHZ, 3-144MHz, 1-432MHz)

10 Broken RST RX (1-50MHz, 4-144MHz, 5-432MHz)

3 Broken Serial RX (1-50MHz, 1-144MHz, 1-432MHz)

1 Mis-sequence (1-144MHz)

1 Time outside contest (1-144MHz)

UBN Information provided for each of the bands

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 50 MHz 2011

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 144 MHz 2011

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 432 MHz 2011

Date Time Call RepTX SnTX Rep

RX Correct

RepRX SnRX Correct

SnRX Loc Correct

Loc Band Reason

02/07/11 14:10 G3NFC/P 59 9 59 2 IO92BA IO93BA 50 Broken:Locator

02/07/11 14:25 G3JKY/P 59 23 59 55 4 JO01HH 50 Broken:RS(T) RX

02/07/11 14:32 G4ALE/P 59 30 59 14 15 IO91XG 50 Broken:Serial RX

Date Time Call Correct

Call RepTX SnTX RepRX

Correct

RepRX SnRX

Correct

SnRX Loc

Correct

Loc Band Reason Notes

02/07/2011 14:53 G3GHN/P 59 47 58 59 9 JO01HH 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

02/07/2011 14:59 G4BTS/P 55 53 56 55 11 IO93IM 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

02/07/2011 18:52 G0EIZ G0IXZ 59 143 59 7 IO93IF 144 Broken:Callsign

02/07/2011 19:23 G8PIR/P 55 154 57 55 40 JO02TM 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

02/07/2011 19:44 2E0REG 59 161 59 4 IO82NL IO83NL 144 Broken:Locator

02/07/2011 20:16 2E0VXI 59 167 59 11 IO83RM 144 mis-sequenced serial

number

Adjudicated

Invalid

02/07/2011 23:04 G4YT G4YTV 59 204 59 9 IO93UU 144 Broken:Callsign

03/07/2011 06:58 G4SHF 55 232 55 7 9 IO92IN 144 Broken:Serial RX

03/07/2011 08:30 G0DMS G0GMS 55 260 59 2 IO82XT 144 Broken:Callsign

03/07/2011 09:24 G4CTU 54 276 55 59 28 IO82UJ 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

03/07/2011 10:41 2E0YYY/P 59 308 59 3 IO83WA IO83XD 144 Broken:Locator

03/07/2011 11:43 M0REG/P 59 327 59 11 IO94TV IO90TV 144 Broken:Locator

03/07/2011 11:52 G0LWN G0LWU 51 331 59 9 IO84NA 144 Broken:Callsign

03/07/2011 14:00 M0MPM/P 59 366 59 21 IO91GI 144 Time outside contest

Date Time Call RepTX SnTX RepRX Correct

RepRX SnRX

Correct

SnRX Loc Correct Loc Band Reason

02/07/2011 19:57 EI4JY 57 46 57 1 IO63ED IO63XD 432 Broken:Locator

02/07/2011 20:46 G3SRC/P 57 49 59 57 65 IO91XG 432 Broken:RS(T) RX

03/07/2011 05:35 G0EHV/P 57 62 55 59 IO83NE IO94MJ 432 Broken:Locator

03/07/2011 06:15 G3XDY 56 63 59 56 13 JO02OB 432 Broken:RS(T) RX

03/07/2011 06:52 G0VHF/P 53 66 57 53 123 JO01PU 432 Broken:RS(T) RX

03/07/2011 07:16 G4WAW/P 53 68 52 15 14 IO81QJ 432 Broken:Serial RX

03/07/2011 08:38 G0OLE/P 59 70 59 55 31 32 IO93PX 432 Broken:RS(T) RX

The Club

The Club is run in a very

informal way, just a group

of like minded people

doing something they

enjoy!

This does not mean that

we don’t do anything, we

enter (and win!) contests,

train newcomers, hold

talks and video nights and

run a popular annual Junk

Sale. Our newsletter has

won the Practical Wireless

‘Spotlight’ competition on

several occasions.

The Club supports the

British Heart Foundation

in memory of a member

who died from heart dis-

ease by donating the

profits from some of the

events we hold, we have

raised over £14,795 since

1994.

Supported by BT Community

Champions

Band QSO

QPts

Claimed 6M 145 68676

Final 6M 142 67376

Claimed 4M 112 33182

Final 4M 112 33182

Claimed 2M 363 106572

Final 2M 350 102926

Claimed 70cm 82 21759

Final 70cm 74 18968

Claimed All 702 230189

Score 230189

Final All 678 222452

Score 222452

The Final Score and QSO Points are the same in this contest as there are no multipliers

involved. QSO Points are 1 point/kilometre on each contact made and is worked out calculating the distance between the contest stations maidenhead locator and the worked stations maidenhead locator. Hope you find the above interesting and help you understand why listening to exchanges during the contest is so important and also after the event making sure that ay “typo” errors have been picked up before submis-sion. Remember you are entering a contest to have fun and also to submit the best score that you can achieve. Happy Contesting... Bob GM4UYZ

People say Morse Code (CW) is a dead mode

but from what I see and hear in my opinion it

is the exact opposite. Admittedly it is a mode

that you will either love or hate but I for one

really enjoy it. I am not the greatest at CW

but it certainly offers me a great challenge.

CW will be heard and used on the bands long

before voice communications are available

so it comes into its own during weak propa-

gation and when Bands are beginning to

open up. Another reason for using the mode

is that TX equipment is easy to build hence

the reason it is very popular with QRP opera-

tors. Even on VHF although in the old Class

“A”, Class “B” structure of licences the Class

“B” operators always used to say “why do I

need that mode?” Well it has fantastic ad-

vantages, want to work an aurora, want to

work moonbounce, want to work meteor

scatter, want to work stations when the

voice signals are weak, then CW is the mode

to use and it was amazing how many could

not see this.

With the removal of CW being a requirement

to obtain your Full licence it was said as men-

tioned before that it would become a “dead

mode” I reckon there is now more and more

interest in learning the code. Why do I think

this is the case, well in my opinion the stress

of having to be proficient to pass an exam

has now gone so people can now have a go

at learning CW and use it on the air in a more

relaxed fashion. I can remember my exam

and although I could do CW at 20WPM it was

still a massive stress.

Thank goodness this has gone and people

can now enjoy another mode of communica-

tion.

From various club outings, especially con-

testing it really has come apparent that one

of the club’s weakest areas is the ability to

send and receive CW. The numbers of times

that people were saying that they must do

something about it, so to that end instead of

our programmed DVD/Video night in the

club calendar I changed it to a Morse Night.

The objective of the evening was to gauge

the level of interest of learning Morse Code

MORSE NIGHT

to the level it can successfully be used to make a CW contact,

whether it be a standard QSO or Contest QSO. It was very

heartening to see a good turnout of people who were inter-

ested and also before the event I had been sent emails from

others who couldn’t make the night but want to be involved.

I delivered a small presentation covering the topics of Identi-

fying all the required Morse Code Characters that would be

required to make a QSO, the different methods of learning

CW and to what level people thought they were at, from no

experience to 20WPM. I did also stress that it was important

to know the code and be proficient at it before even thinking

about sending CW. It is a well known fact that people can

send faster than they can receive and the with the etiquette

in CW being your sending and receiving should be at the same

speed. Otherwise you are telling the person I am quite happy

to receive at the speed I am sending to you so if you are send-

ing too fast then you will struggle to receive what comes back.

On the transmitting side, personally I would learn to send us-

ing paddles rather than a standard straight key. I for one find

it a more relaxed set-up but like everything else what you find

is the most comfortable for you then that is what you will use.

For learning there are computer based programs that can be

used. The ones that I identified were Nu-Morse, G4FON, RUFZ

and Morserunner. There are others out there but the ones

mentioned are the most common that I know off. Nu-Morse

and G4FON are good learning programs where RUFZ and

Morserunner are great for increasing your speed once you

really know CW and these are an example of the ones I use

for practise.

For learning CW from absolute scratch there are two well

known learning methods which are the Farnsworth Method

and the KOCH method. The rule with both of these programs

is learn the characters at the speed to wish to obtain, recom-

mend 20 WPM so in essence you learn the characters as a

sound. Leave a large gap between letters to start with then

gradually reduce this gap. This is how your speed increases.

The real difference between the two methods is that with the

Farnsworth Method you learn characters in the format of all

the characters that just have dots i.e. I E S H, then those that

contain only dashes i.e. T M O then reversals i.e. A N, U D, etc,

whereas with the KOCH method you learn two characters at a

time and when you are at 90% proficient at receiving them

you then add another character and so on. There is no right or

wrong method as again you will learn by what suits you. I was

taught the Farnsworth method. As individuals we will also

learn at different rates from being very quick, to being slow

and even to the extent of never being able to do it

When learning CW you really have to be patient as you will

also hit speed obstacles in the process... at 5WPM, then may-

be 9 WPM, then maybe 14 WPM... by persevering you will get

through them but you just have to be patient and keep at it.

What was the outcome of the evening? In summary everyone

that attend wanted to learn so the plan is to book a Monday

evening at the Community Centre between 19:00 and 21:00

to start the training. As individuals initially anyway the re-

quirement is that you need to copy down what has been sent

and the suggestion is that everyone uses a laptop and enter

the received characters into a notepad file. This in fact is

learning two skills at once, receiving CW and also keyboard

skills which in a contest environment is how it needs to be

done. The laptop is not mandatory just a suggestion and nor-

mal pen and paper can be used just as well. The choice will be

yours....

I have now confirmed dates for the CW Training between now

and Christmas. If the interest is still running by then I will book

more...

Look forwarding to seeing you all there.

Bob GM4UYZ

Location: Port Seton Resource Centre (Community Centre) Resources Room 1 South Seton Park, Port Seton EH32

0BQ

Time: 19:00 to 21:00

Dates: Monday -- 14th November Monday -- 21st November Monday – 28th November Monday -- 5th December Monday -- 12th December Monday – 19th December Your Requirements: Paper (recommend Maths paper lined in little boxes) with Pencil or Pen (Bring along with you) Or a Laptop

One of the reasons I am interested in learning morse code is that my mother used it as a Luftwaffe wireless operator (Funkerin), more specifically as a Signals Corps auxiliary (Luftnachrichten-Betriebs-Helferin).

When the second world war started Mum was 15-years-old and living at home in a small rural village right at the Eastern edge of Germany. Schools stopped as teachers joined the war effort. Her initial compulsory service was as a nurse, but then she moved on to the Luftwaffe and started signals training in nearby Sprottau, which is now Szprotawa in Poland. For most of the rest of the war she was stationed in Czechoslovakia, in Pardubice, Königgrätz (Hradec Králové) and Eger (Cheb).

Mum found herself in a unit of young women wireless opera-tors. Most were away from home for the first time and more interested in boys than politics and war. They chatted over their radios in morse - she told me they used unassigned Q-codes for their own slang. The only one I remember is QBI: periods were unmentionable in mixed company in those days.

The morse key Mum used resulted in an industrial injury, pre-sumably because of the repetitive movement. She developed a large ganglion cyst on her morse keying wrist which had to be surgically removed. Luckily her father stopped a gung-ho surgeon removing a bunch of glands as well just to make a thorough job of it.

By 1944 when she was 20, rations were getting tight, not least because the station cook was on the fiddle. The story she told me about that time suggests that work wasn't too demanding. Mum did night shifts together with her friend Hilde. The two of them would have gone hungry if it hadn't been for Hilde's sideline as a prostitute. After setting Mum up to cover the shift for both of them, Hilde would go off and ply her trade. She was paid in food which she and Mum then shared. When Mum told me this story I teased her that she'd been living off

immoral earnings, but she wasn't having it. “That woman

loved her job!”

She dug out a photo of a group of young women and chal-lenged me to pick out Hilde. Of course I couldn't.

I don't know when Mum learned to operate an enigma ma-chine. I've wondered if her transmissions were ever picked up for decoding by Bletchley Park. And whether she was flawless operator or the kind that made the mistakes that helped break the codes. I expect most slipped up now and then. Over forty years later Phil MM0EBL built her an enigma machine simula-tor for her Mac. It was around then she decided it probably didn't matter any more about the undying oath she'd sworn, and told us she'd promised never to tell anyone that the enig-ma codes changed on a daily basis.

Jane Hesketh

MORSE AND MY MOTHER

Test Your Knowledge

1. The coaxial cable from an h.f dipole antenna would nor-

mally be connected to an amateur transceiver using a

a. pair of screw down terminal

b. pair of 4mm plugs

c. PL259 plug

d. two pin DIN connector

2. This is a diagram of a

a. ground plane antenna

b. yagi antenna

c. 5/8 antenna

d. Horizontal dipole.

3. A balun is

a. used instead of a dummy load

b. used to connect a dipole to coaxial cable

c. a particular type of antenna

d. A type of feeder.

4. Two receiving stations are situated on clear open

ground 5km and 10km from a VHF transmitter. The fur-ther station will

a. receive a weaker signal because the signal has spread out

more

b. receive the same signal because they are both in clear

ground

c. receive no signal if it is directly behind the closer station

d. Only receive a signal if it is correctly licensed.

5. The ionosphere is

a. another name for the air we breath

b. conductive gasses at heights of 70 to 400km

c. a type of spherical transmitting antenna

d. a piece of amateur radio test equipment

6. Amateur transmissions might be picked up by

a. any wiring in the neighbour's house

b. only wiring which is longer than 2 metres

c. only wiring that does not have an earth lead

d. Earth leads only.

7. One way of reducing the possibility of interference from

a single sideband (s.s.b.) transmitter to a television re-ceiver in the next house is to

a. use an indoor transmitting antenna

b. increase power input to the transmitter

c. decrease power input to the transmitter

d. Decrease the number of frequency multiplying stages in

the transmitter.

8. Why is it advisable to purchase a ready made filter for

fitting in the mains lead of a radio receiving device?

a. A home made device may not let the radio signals

through.

b. A purchased item will look much nicer.

c. The filter may not work well.

d. It is dangerous to put home made devices in the mains.

9. The difference between a CQ call on 2 metres FM and

one on HF SSB is that the call on FM

a. is usually much shorter than when on HF SSB

b. must be made at the lowest possible power

c. needs to be repeated many times while somebody is tun-

ing in to your signal

d. Is only permitted on the set calling channels.

10. In the 2 metre band plan, the frequencies from

144.994MHz to 145.1395MHz are allocated to

a. fm simplex channels

b. fm repeater inputs

c. SSB and CW only

d. Satellites.

Contacts

General correspondence,

training and contest en-

tries

Bob Glasgow

7 Castle Terrace

Port Seton

East Lothian

EH32 0EE

Phone: 01875 811723

E-mail:

gm4uyz@cpsarc.com

HF Contests

Cambell Stevenson

mm0dxc@aol.com

VHF Contests

John MacLean

mm0ccc@cpsarc.com

Club Tables

Bob Purves

gm4ikt@cpsarc.com

Contest Reports

Robin Farrer

mm0vtv@cpsarc.com

Newsletter, website,

event calendar

John Innes

newsletter@cpsarc.com

4 November 2011 Club Night

11 November 2011 Talk: Maritime Mobile Lighthouse Weekend—MM5AHO

14 November 2011 Morse Training

18 November 2011 Talk by Len Paget GM0ONX ‘Planning Permission’

21 November 2011 Morse Training

27 November 2011 Intermediate License Exam

28 November 2011 Morse Training

2 December 2011 Club Night

3 December 2011 Advanced License Course starts (fees to be paid by 25 December)

5 December 2011 Advanced License Exam (for self studiers)

5 December 2011 Morse Training

10 December 2011 Club Christmas Night Out

12 December 2011 Morse Training

19 December 2011 Morse Training

31 January 2012 Advanced License exam

11 February 2012 Foundation License Course (fees to be paid by 18 January)

18 February 2012 Foundation License Course (pt2)

3 March 2012 Intermediate License Course begins

(fees to be paid by 4 December)

7 April 2012 Intermediate License Exam

EVENTS COLUMN

Answers from November 2011 newsletter “Test Your Knowledge”.

1C, 2B, 3B, 4A, 5B, 6A, 7C, 8D, 9A, 10B

CLUBLOG TABLE

Here’s the latest Clublog table, remember to send your reports to Bob GM4IKT for the news-

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Rank Callsign 160 80 60 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 6 4 2 70 DXCCs Slots

1 GM4IKT 0 0 0 7 0 131 17 101 0 78 0 0 0 0 173 334

2 MM0KTC 0 0 0 18 0 89 39 35 4 11 2 0 0 0 122 198

3 MM0DXH 9 28 0 54 0 83 6 45 1 41 0 0 1 0 121 268

4 MM0XXW 0 1 0 38 36 64 21 59 19 24 2 0 0 0 87 264

5 M0RNR 0 9 0 41 0 53 0 19 0 2 0 0 0 0 72 124

6 MM5AHO 0 18 5 28 1 30 0 0 0 14 25 0 0 0 66 121

7 GM4UYZ 0 4 0 2 0 34 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 62

8 MM0WZB 0 1 0 12 0 25 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 32 44

GM2T 0 50 0 59 0 82 0 68 0 32 0 0 0 0 94 291

GB2MOF 0 0 0 13 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 65

MM0CPS 0 3 0 26 0 17 0 5 0 0 17 7 11 5 50 91

GB2LBN 0 0 0 15 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 55