Signal Reports - Fibre Optic Solar CellsBen goes to VP8 & ZD8

Band Reports & more .....

February - March

Worthing & District Amateur Radio ClubEstablished 1948

http://www.wadarc.org.uk - email info@wadarc.org.uk

President: G8FMJ John Slater Life Vice President: G8MSQ Peter Robinson

WADARC meet every Wednesday at 8pm in the Lancing Parish Hall, South Street, Lancing BN15 8AJ. All that have an interest in radio communications and associate subjects, whether a licensed amateur or not, are invited. WADARC can also arrange training for people to undertake the Radio Amateur Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced licenses.

WADARC Committee 2012 - 2013

Kelvan! ! M0KEL! ! Chairman! !Andy! ! M6RFE! ! Secretary ! !Sandra ! ! G0KAG! ! Treasurer! !John ! ! G8FMJ! ! President! !Jonathan! G1EXG! ! Ordinary Member!!Peter! ! G4LKW! ! Ordinary Member!!Norman! ! 2E0RKO! Ordinary Member!!Rod! ! M0RDV! ! Secretary ! !

WADARC Ex Officio 2012 - 2013

John ! ! G8FMJ! ! Publicity !! !Peter! ! G8MSQ! ! Membership Manager!Chris ! ! G3NDJ! ! Awards Manager! !Graham !! G4FNL! ! Contest Manager!!Phil! ! G4UDU! ! Ragchew Editor! !Martin ! ! M0ADY ! ! Club Webmaster! !

WADARC Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced Courses & Licensing

Kelvan! ! M0KEL! ! Training Officer! ! 01903 523769

WADARC Club Nets - all times are local

09:00! Sunday! ! 145.550 MHz (Pre RSGB News on 145.525 MHz)

19:30! Monday!! 145.425 MHz

11:00! Thursday! 7.110 MHz

Contents

From the Editor's Keyboard! 1

Chairman’s Chatter! 1

Presidential Ponderings! 1

News & Technology! 2

Signal reports! 4

2E0BSF- Ben Streeter & the Royal Marines Band! 6

New WADARC member's callsigns! 12

RNLI Press Release 11th March! 12

International Morse Preservation Society! 13

Frank N2FF! 14

Band Reports & Club Nets! 15

Forthcoming DX Dates! 17

WADARC Club Programme 2013! 20

From the Editor's Keyboard There are some interesting articles to read in this issue; I have put in some information on signal reporting that I hope will be adopted by the membership, you seldom hear comments on the air of good operating but if a mistake is made it is always picked up! There is also an update from Ben with details of his ongoing training and travels.Pete has been busy on the special event stations raising money for the RNLI.Some interesting technology on Solar Cells - and NO it is not an April fools article, it is really happening.We also have a report about Frank Fallon N2FF - Frank from New Jersey USA used to come over and stay with his daughter in Littlehampton and while over here he often came to the WADARC meetings. The family have now moved back to the USA so we have not seen him for a while. He is quite active on the bands so if you work him always mention WADARC.Plus the usual band reports etc.Thank you to all of you who contribute to Ragchew - more input is always welcome.

Phil G4UDU

Chairman’s Chatter Nothing from the Chairman this issue.

Presidential Ponderings

Another Ragchew is with us, where have the months gone? I just wish the winter weather had gone as well, it seems to have been a while since we had some really good weather and could get out and do some antenna work, hopefully soon.I do find it very encouraging that we have some new and very enthusiastic members now who are trying to drag us up to date using modern technology wherever possible to make everyones lives easier and the club work more efficiently, which can only be a good thing for us all, keep up the good work.The club programme is coming along and we have had some very enjoyable evenings with talks and discussions. The idea of members bringing their own equipment along seems to be very popular and makes for some varied interaction.

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Regrettably, we have had to lose the club caravan as we were unable to find somewhere to keep it at a sensible price. This brings me once again to the sticky subject of the club equipment which at the moment is stored at my shop premises. The club has enjoyed free storage of this equipment for many years because the room was available. This will not be the case in the near future and we do need to seriously look at other options. The quotes that we have had so far from two storage companies amount to around £120.00 per calendar month and given our current club assets and income, this could not be sustained for long before we ran out of money….IDEAS PLEASE.I also think that we could have a look at the equipment we currently have and maybe get rid of any which is surplus to requirements these days, perhaps we can discuss this at committee.I did bring up the subject of a possible club dinner on the email reflector and asked for ideas of Day and Venue. I only had one response so am I to assume that no one is interested? Please let me know if I am wrong.Please continue the excellent support that you have given the club in the past, it is a club that we should all be proud to be a part of and long may it be so.

John-G8FMJ

News & Technology

Silicon-based optical fibre with solar-cell capabilities could be woven into solar fabrics

An International team of chemists, physicists and engineers, led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has demonstrated for the first time,  silicon-based optical fibre with solar-cell capabilities that is scalable to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the possibility of weaving together solar-cell silicon wires to create flexible, curved or twisted solar fabrics.The team’s new findings build on earlier work addressing the challenge of merging optical fibres with electronic chips, silicon-based integrated circuits that serve as the building blocks for most semiconductor electronic devices such as solar cells, computers and cell-phones. Rather than merge a flat chip with a round optical fibre, the team found a way to build a new kind of optical fibre, with its own integrated electronic component, thereby bypassing the need to integrate fibre-optics with chips. To do this, they used high-pressure chemistry techniques to deposit semiconducting materials directly, layer by layer, into tiny holes in optical fibres. 

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Now, in their new research, the team members have used the same high-pressure chemistry techniques to make a fibre out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell, a photovoltaic device that can generate electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct-current electricity. “Our goal is to extend high-performance electronic and solar-cell function to longer lengths and to more flexible forms. We already have made meter – long fibres but, in principle, our team’s new method could be used to create bendable silicon solar-cell fibres of over 10 meters in length,” Badding said. “Long, fibre-based solar cells give us the potential to do something we couldn’t really do before: We can take the silicon fibres and weave them together into a fabric with a wide range of applications such as power generation, battery  charging, chemical sensing and biomedical devices.”

A cross-sectional image of the new silicon-based optical fibre. Shown are layers, labeled n+, i and p+, that have been deposited inside the pore of the fibre

Source: Penn State University

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Woven, fibre-based solar cells would be light-weight, flexible configurations that are portable, foldable and even wear able.” This material could then be connected to electronic devices to power them and charge their batteries. “The military especially is interested in designing wearable power sources for soldiers in the field,” Badding added.The team members believe that another advantage of flexibility in solar-cell materials is the possibility of collecting light energy at various angles, “A typical solar cell has only one flat surface,” Badding said. “But a flexible, curved solar-cell fabric would not be as dependent upon where the light is coming from or where the sun is in the horizon and the time of day.”Pier J.A. Sazio of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and one of the team’s leaders added, “Another intriguing property of these silicon-fibre devices is that as they are so compact, they can have a very fast response to visible laser light. In fact, we fabricated fibre-based photo detectors with a bandwidth of over 1.8GHz.” 

Signal Reports

When listening to the bands and hearing signal reports given there is always a question as to why you hear “yes you are five and nine, can you repeat all your details please”. This certainly makes a nonsense out of the signal reporting format. When there is a contest taking place all signal reports are simplified and this has come about because of the use of computer log keeping. Back before the days of personal computers all logs were hand written and the duplicate checking was also done by entering call suffixes into a master check list. If you were given a report of say five and seven this was actually logged but now with computer log keeping it is simply a case of enter the call sign and then wait for the serial number, where the signal report is automatically put into the correct section. The last thing you want is a report of anything other than five and nine or 599 in the case of a CW contest. This may be the reason for bad reporting in normal day-to-day QSO’s. A lot of reports are given purely by looking at the S meter and this is nothing more than a level of signal that is present at the antenna socket. When it indicates S9, that means there is 50 µV of signal present. It has nothing to do with noise levels or intelligibility of the incoming signal. A relatively weak signal on 2m SSB may only indicate about S2 on the meter but it is perfectly clear and the signal stands out against a very low background noise as being extremely strong so is this a five and nine report. Or shall we say it is only five and two because that was the number indicating on the signal level? The opposite to this is a very noisy 80 meter band where the signal meter is sitting with a residual noise level of S9. Now a

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signal that is only marginally stronger than this is almost totally unintelligible and yet often it is given as a five and nine signal this is clearly not so.The answer is to give meaningful signal reports and here is a list of the relevant numbers and what relates to that specific number both in strength and readability of the actual signal.

Readability

1 Unreadable2 Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable.3 Readable with considerable difficulty.4 Readable with practically no difficulty.5 Perfectly readable.

Signal Strength

1 Faint signals, barely perceptible.2 Very weak signals.3 Weak signals.4 Fair signals.5 Fairly good signals.6 Good signals.7 Moderately strong signals.8 Strong signals.9 Extremely strong signals.

Tone

1 Fifty cycle a.c or less, very rough and broad.2 Very rough a.c., very harsh and broad.3 Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered.4 Rough note, some trace of filtering.5 Filtered rectified a.c. but strongly ripple-modulated.6 Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation.7 Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation.8 Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation.9 Perfect tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind.

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Letters can be added to the RST report. If there is a chirp, the letter C may be added, to so indicate. Similarly for a click, add K. The above reporting system is used on both CW and voice, leaving out the “tone” report on voice.

Let's see if we can bring some meaning to what we say when working on the bands and actually put back into use the real understanding of a RST report.

Phil G4UDU

2E0BSF- Ben Streeter & the Royal Marines Band

Some of you may not remember or know me, but I am a member (although not very active!) of WADARC. I edited the Ragchew and I used get to the club a lot more before I joined the Band of HM Royal Marines in September 2011. I did an article just over a year ago, after I completed my basic military training, and since then a lot has gone on so when I was asked to write another article by Phil (G4UDU), I was happy to do so (even though he asked me over 4 months ago and I just haven’t got my act together any when sooner!)

In January 2012, I began two years of music training at the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth. Music training was quite a change to what we were used to after 15 weeks of initial military training and it came as a bit of a shock to the system after two and a half weeks of christmas leave!

A lot of people think that the RMSoM is still at Deal, Kent but that changed back in 1996, when it moved to the old naval prison. Believe it or not, the practice rooms are cells in the prison - the big heavy doors are still there, along with the netting between the cells/walkways. Don’t worry though, the doors no longer lock and there aren’t any bars on the windows!

We all collected our instruments and began working hard on our music, which made a nice change to the SA80 A2 Rifle! However, all was not music. Inspections came in thick and fast and just when we thought that the standards couldn’t get any higher, we were very quickly proved wrong! Everything had to be 10 times better ironed, polished, cleaned and prepared, ready for training parade band twice a week. Little did I think before I joined up that every lunchtime I would have to re-iron my ‘rig’ and polish my shoes, ready for work after lunch! As with everything though, it becomes routine after a while.

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as well - believe me, it's a lot harder than it looks! Because I am in the Corps of Drums, it also meant that I have to learn everything from memory and also learn how to do stick drill and get everyone working and moving together. Parade band is always from 0740-0855 and our Drum Major often takes us out for a march around the camp to wake up anyone else who might be still in bed! Over the weeks we progressed and eventually made it in to the RMSoM main parade band so we could prepare for Open day, later in August. We had a long way to go before we were ready to perform to the public and it took two weeks of full on rehearsals to get everything as near to perfect as was physically possible.

Open day arrived, and it was the first time that a lot of us had performed in public in our new uniforms that we got two weeks before the gig! We had a great day, both in the concert and then the ceremony of Beating the Retreat in the Guildhall Square, but we were all VERY tired at the end of it!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAQSbz9K4KA

Open day

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After open day, we went on a well-deserved summer break, which would then prepare us for what would turn out to be a very busy term! Throughout the term, I managed to get on quite a few different engagements near and far, including the second sea lords supersession on HMS Victory, a mess beatings display on HMS Warrior and a day up in London, performing in Oxford Street to launch the RBL poppy appeal. During that day, we performed 17 displays between 0530 and 1730 - that was one busy day! We also marched down The Mall in London parading for an event called ‘Commando 999’, a group of ex-RM Commandos, who are now in the Police and do a speed march for RM and RN charities, and then we did a display in the evening, followed by a very nice five course meal with the company of the original Chivenor military wives choir.

To top it all off, I managed to get on a two-week trip to the Falkland islands, which was a brilliant experience, certainly one that I will never forget! We also made history on the way back from the Falklands; it was the first time that an RM band has performed a Beating Retreat in 30 years on Ascension Island, where we stayed for three days at the end of a trip. To say it was hot was a bit of an understatement and that was in shorts and a t-shirt in the middle of December - it was even worse in full ceremonials!

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RMSoM Band, Ascension Island December 2012

You may have also seen me on the TV earlier in September, in ITV Meridian's short series called ‘The Making of a Military Musician’, which showed me going all the way through from my audition to open day, which was a bit strange to see how I have changed but something that I will certainly look back on in a few years time!

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ITV Meridian

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Just before Christmas, I passed my exams, which meant that I was half-way through my training and on track to pass for duty in to one of the five bands in the country in January 2014.

Although we are mainly doing musical training, we still are reminded of our military role and have annual rifle ranges tests and physical tests, all so that we are ready if we ever have to be deployed.

I will keep you all posted on how I am getting on and I will try to get down to the club when I can!

Ben 2E0BSF

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New WADARC member's callsigns

Three club members have now moved on from Foundation to Intermediate licenses - the callsigns are:

Gerry 2E0WGB

Dawn 2E0DSK

Norman 2E0RKO

RNLI Press Release 11th March

SOS Radio Week donates to Selsey RNLI Shannon Fund

The Lifeboat Amateur Radio Society took part in SOS Radio Week,which corresponds with RNLI SOS Day, and donated £121 to the Selsey Lifeboat Shannon Appeal.

SOS Radio week is nine days in January when individual Amateur Radio operators and Amateur Radio Groups throughout the UK, Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands aim to raise as much money as they can for the RNLI.

Pete Penycate, from Worthing Branch of the Lifeboat Amateur Radio Society, call sign M6PAP, spent a week on the radio telling other radio operators around the country about the RNLI and was sponsored to do it.

He raised £121.00 and came down to Selsey in a snow storm and handed the money over to Coxswain Martin Rudwick and had a photo taken.

Pete said; “Last year I was going to present the money to Martin but the boat was out for the first time in the year and couldn't get back in owing to the tide, so I presented it to George Woodland (a former deputy coxswain) who stood in for him.”

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The Lifeboat Amateur Radio Society (LARS) aims to promote the RNLI to the amateur radio community throughout the UK and Ireland, including running both national and local fund-raising events and was formed in October 2010.

International Morse Preservation Society

For the last couple of years I have spent time on the 24 and 28MHz bands chasing countries to compile an entry for the Club’s single band contest. I thought  for this year I would have a change of direction by getting back to a bit of modest CW operating in the chatting mode rather than trying (usually unsuccessfully) to complete a QSO with some far-flung DX station in a matter of nano-seconds. A few days on 40 produced several pleasant contacts around the UK and the Continent using 5 watts.  On a couple of occasions I was asked for my “Fists” membership number.   I looked it up on Google as – Fists CW club  – and found what I wanted.  The club is solely involved in promoting the active use of hand sent CW with no restrictions or requirements as to speed, equipment or ability . I

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liked what I saw and sent off my sub. Eventually I received membership data and number.  My first query to the club was questioning why my number was lower than a couple of recent contacts to find that I had a re-issued number because I had been a member back in the early 1990s! Pause for red face as I am now classed as a long time member!  A look at my call immediately shows that Anno Domini has struck again. I really have no recollection of ever having been a member.Anyone interested in CW might like to follow this up. It promotes facilities for on-air CW practice at whatever speed is desired; issues an excellent magazine four times a year and organises a full range of contest type activities. The Winter 2012 issue is 64 pages with a good cross-section of articles and  equipment reviews.                     Popular  spot frequencies are :  1.818,  3,558, 7,028, 10,118/128, 14,058, 18,085, 21,058, 24,918 and 28,058MHz.The membership secretary is Graham Smith G3ZOD.   Email : members@fists.co.uk

There is no requirement but I half thought I might try and revive my straight key.  First attempts were quite awful and difficult to believe how different it is to using a paddle.  Hope I don’t get called back into the RAF Reserve for a week or two.

Ted G3EUE

Frank N2FFFrank Fallon N2FF of East Williston, New York, lost his three-element quad in the storm. Frank says, "Actually the quad survived but the mast supporting it was bent at a 45-degree angle. One of the local hams who saw it a few days later said it looked like I was trying to work moonbounce. I immediately started to disassemble the quad and had it almost all apart when we got hit with a nor'easter. That loaded the spreaders with about three inches of snow and ice and one of them shattered. We were without power for 52 hours. I had the tower cranked down to minimum height and never thought we would get so much damage, as we are more than 100 miles from where the storm came ashore. The winds were incredible." Fallon was left with one antenna, a 40-meter dipole at 50 feet."In the CQ WW DX SSB Contest I had made 758 QSOs with the quad and 100 watts. In the CW portion, again assisted with 100 watts but with only the dipole, I managed 345 QSOs on 40 through 10 meters thanks to the tuner in the FT-1000MP. I managed three JA’s on 40 meters, a band where I am not usually able to work JA. In all, I had 412 fewer QSOs. My QSO total was down by half from the SSB portion, but at least was able to operate." N2FF adds, "l believe I may have come in number one in the single wire antenna/4-band category. I Page 14

realise now that were I to be stranded on a desert island with only one antenna, l would make it a 40-meter dipole. At this point I have not finished the quad rebuild but hope to have it back in operation so my 14-year-old grand-daughter, NY2GB, can come and operate in the ARRL 10 Meter contest."

Band Reports & Club Nets

I am always asking for band reports from the WADARC members - there are the regulars like Graham G4FNL who have been active on the radio - what are the rest of the membership working on the radio ?

Here is a summary and some highlights from what I’ve been working this year so far:I have had 1647 QSOs since 1st Jan 2013 (admittedly mainly in contests) and here’s a pick of the DX that I’ve worked in that time 15M CWTX5K9X0NHHD2AXR0YGYS1/NO7B (on SSB) 17 CWXR0YGJ5UAPTX5K  20M CW6Y3M6U7S6W2SCFG5FRT2GMT2YYVK2ELHL4CHHJA2HZAHK4CZEZF2LC4S7KMPage 15

 160M CWUA9CBMVE1ZZ 73Graham G4FNL Mid March is the weekend of the “RSGB Commonwealth Contest” the object is to work the individual countries plus the Headquarter Stations.I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge so worked only with the KX3 using QRP. Here is a list of the more interesting stations worked plus a couple of “extras” that happened to be on the bands over the same weekend

10mJ34G GrenadaJ88DR Saint VincentZS1EL South Africa6V7S Senagal

15mZF2XF Cayman IslandsKH6/K1YR HawaiiVP/G4CWH Bermuda5X1XA Uganda5H3EE Tanzania

20mVE9HF CanadaVK6VZ Australia9X0NH RwandaZM2B New ZealandVU2TS India6Y6T Jamaica9J2BO ZambiaXW0ZJZ Laos

 Phil G4UDU

Monday evening 2M net. The joiners were : -  DAVE GOSFV – MARK 2E0VKZ – PETE M6PAP – NORMAN 2E0RKO  and  DAWN 2E0DSK.

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Thursday Morning 40m net was a good one, a little noisy even though we qsyd below 7.100Kc. Joiners were CHRIS G3UFS – KENN GONKZ – PETE M6PAP – NORMAN 2E0RKO – GRAHAM G4FNL – TED G3EUE  his friend BERT G3FVO also joined the net, and JOHN G4BLJ

73 Chris  G3NDJ

Forthcoming DX Dates

As I have stated before, there are many sites on the internet with DX calendars, here is the one from “425 DX” - if you are interested in chasing the rare countries this is the type of site you need to monitor.

425 DX Calendar23 March 2013

A.R.I. Dx Bulletin Edited by I1JQJ

till 11/04 HC1MD: Ecuador 1141till 11/04 JX9JKA: Jan Mayen (EU-022) 1024till 11/04 LY23A: special callsign 1140till 13/04 PD70JT: special callsign 1141till 15/04 JG8NQJ/JD1: Minami Torishima (OC-073) 1132till 30/04 8J6ISG: special event station 1138till 30/05 7T50ARA and 7T9A: special callsigns (Algeria) 1139till 31/05 HG52FC: special event station 1141till May 9G5MS: Ghana 1134till October T6MH: Afghanistan 1125till 31/12 DL50FRANCE: special station 1131till 31/12 EI13CLAN: special callsign 1130till 31/12 Gx100C: special callsign 1134till 31/12 Gx100RSGB: special callsigns 1130till 31/12 HA30S: special callsign 1136till 31/12 HB30OK: special callsign 1130till 31/12 OU1RAEM: special callsign 1130till 31/12 RI1ANP: Progress Station (Antarctica) 1132till 31/12 S5300TP: special callsign 1130till 31/12 Z320RSM and Z320A-Z320Z: special callsigns 1130till Feb 2014 VK0JJJ: Mawson station (Antarctica) 1135till Feb 2014 ZS7V: SANAE IV station (Antarctica) 113623/03-24/03 CE8DMT: Navarino Island (SA-050) 114123/03-24/03 LT5X: Isla Redonda (SA-049) 114023/03-04/04 T5TC: Somalia 114023/03-04/04 T2YY: Tuvalu (OC-015) 1141Page 17

23/03 TK0INT: EU-100 113924/03-03/04 EI8GQB and EI1A: Ireland (EU-115) 114124/03-29/03 MM0GHM/m: Isle of Barra (EU-010) 114224/03-25/03 TK1INT: EU-104 113925/03-26/03 SV8/DJ4EL: Proti Island (EU-158) 114226/03-16/04 A3EAQ: Tongatapu (OC-049) 114126/03-03/04 CT8/PA4N and CS8/PD9DX: Sao Miguel (EU-003), Azores 114226/03-03/04 P40Z: Aruba (SA-036) 114226/03-01/04 PJ4/W1SRD, PJ4/N6DE, PJ4D: Bonaire (SA-006) 114226/03 TK0INT: EU-100 113926/03-12/04 TO7BC and FH/DL7BC: Mayotte (AF-027) 114127/03-28/03 TK2INT: EU-164 113927/03-31/03 YB8HZ/p and YB8BRI/p: Balang Lompo (OC-236) 114228/03-04/04 KG9N/C6A: Grand Bahama (NA-080) 114228/03-01/04 K5KUA/5: Galveston Island (NA-143) 114128/03-29/03 SV8/DJ4EL: Sapientza Island (EU-158) 114230/03-13/04 VK9CZ: Cocos-Keeling Islands (OC-003) 114230/03-03/04 XW8XZ: Laos 114229/03-02/04 NH2KY and KH2KY: Guam (OC-026) 114229/03-01/04 KG2A/VP9: Bermuda (NA-005) 1142March RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139March ST2SF: Sudan 113101/04-12/04 9V1/G0RCI and 9M2/G0RCI 114201/04-06/04 PA/DL5DCL: Ameland Island (EU-038) 113904/04-18/04 5W0M: Samoa (OC-097) 112504/04-17/04 S79VJG: Seychelles (AF-024) 114108/04-20/04 PJ4/SP6AXW and PJ4/SP9FIH: Bonaire (SA-006) 113706/04-12/04 V31HU, V31NV, V32EE: Twin Cayes (NA-180) 113707/04-08/05 5H3MB: Tanzania 113913/04-26/04 OZ/PA1H and OZ/PA7PA: Laeso Island (EU-088) 113918/04-05/05 PA200KING: special event station 114119/04-21/04 OE13M: special event station 114021/04-26/04 XF2E: Isla de Venados (NA-171) 113722/04-04/05 JD1BMH: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara 114022/04-02/05 PC13KING: special event station 114125/04-08/05 ZK3N: Tokelau (OC-048) 114126/04-02/05 YE8B: Banggai Islands (OC-208) 113928/04-04/05 JD1BLY: Ogasawara (AS-031) 114129/04-06/05 TS8TI: Djerba Island (AF-083) 1137April DX8DX: OC-174 and OC-225 1142April RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139April ST2SF: Sudan 113103/05-10/05 SU8N: Nelson's Island (AF-109) 113903/05-12/05 VK9NT: Norfolk Island (OC-005) 113510/05-16/05 GS3PYE/p: Isle of Mull (EU-008) 114111/05-12/05 TO1PF: Reunion Island (AF-016) 1137

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17/05-21/05 OZ1RDP: Romo Island (EU-125) 1141May RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139May ZS8C and ZS8Z: Marion Island (AF-021) 114001/06-04/06 H44: New Georgia (OC-149) 114206/06-08/06 H44: Russell Islands (OC-168) 114210/06-13/06 H44: Florida Islands (OC-158) 114217/06-24/06 H44: Stewart Island (OC-285) 1142June RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 113901/07-07/07 H40: Nendo Island (OC-100) 114201/07-31/07 TC150RC: special callsign 113309/07-12/07 H40: Vanikolo/Utupua (OC-163) 114214/07-16/07 H40: Reef Islands (OC-065) 114224/07-31/07 TM2BI: Belle-Ile-en-Mer (EU-048) 1137July H40 IOTA tour (OC-065, OC-100, OC-163) 1140July RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 113903/08-04/08 TO1PF: Reunion Island (AF-016) 1137August RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139September RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139October K9W: Wake Island (OC-053) 1141October RV3EFH/0: Bolshevik Island (AS-042) 1139

Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ/KB2TJM425 DX News Editor

E-mail: i1jqj@425dxn.org http://www.425dxn.org

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WADARC Club Programme 2013

APRIL

1st 80 mtr CC-CW contest3rd Talk by Peter M6PBK, Alister G3ZBU and Merv 2E0WVE, “ Steiff in Space “7th Monthly Breakfast Meeting at the Goring Café 9am10th Discussion Evening10th 80 mtr CC-SSB contest17th Talk by Mike G3LHZ, “ A small high power, wide band Un-tuned loop monopole “24th GX3WOR On-the-Air evening

MAY

1st Talk by Chris-G3NDJ, “ A time of changes “5th Monthly Breakfast Meeting at the Goring Café6th 80 mtr CC-SSB contest7th Evening Trip to Kingstanding “Aspidistra Radio Station “8th Talk by Gerry 2E0WGB, Linux Amateur radio applications demo, Pt 1.15th Talk by Gerry 2E0WGB, Linux Amateur radio applications demo Pt 2.22nd Discussion evening23rd 80 mtr CC-CW contest29th GX3WOR On-The-Air evening

JUNE

1st Monthly Breakfast Meeting at the Goring café5th DVD evening12th TBC12th 80 mtr CC-CW contest19th TBC20th 80 mtr CC-SSB contest26th GX3WOR On-The-Air evening

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Items for Sale

Watson W 220 swr power meter 1.6 - 220 Mc/s £50

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