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Welwick Heritage weekend gets underway

The Members start to turn up for the weekends events down at the little village of Welwick.

Every year this little East coast village put on one the areas biggest shows, in the form of the Welwick Heritage weekend, this is an agricultural show.

The event has old steam engines and  static engines and lots more to offer the club will post some picture of the event as it unfolds.

Today Andy G7LRR and Wife Linda M6LGN with Charlie 2E0CIK and Kevin 2E0KVK setup camp for the weekend and got the HF station on the air.

You will see from the photos that we have all worked hard so far aerial is up at a good height for inter G working.

Charlie and Kevin are going all gourmet with kicking there lunch off with smoke salmon and Mussels and Andy is living it up on his bag of crisps

Enjoy the photos so far more to follow.

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Members Aerial work over the summer months

This summer has seen members put up and repair all sorts of Aerials

Andy G7LRR after his 5 band Delta Quad broke after 7 years of been up in the air has now gone back to a tri-band Yagi.

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The Hy-gain Explore 14 Tri-band yagi he got from Syd, M1COV , was taken to bits by Andy and Steve 2E0NSQ and cleanup and now look’s like new with new hardware and a coat of lacquer spayed on it.

Andy reports the Explorer 14 is working well but the Quad was better.

Jon M6HDX had fun with the guys at his QTH installing and tuning one of Bobs M0RWL trapped inverted L for 40m /80m/160m bands.

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Kevin 2E0KVK , Steve 2E0NSQ, Andy G7LRR, and Jon M6HDX, spent one Sunday morning installing the Aerial , Jon had the Bacon butties  flowing so we all was stuffed ,Steve really enjoyed his as you will see in the photo.

Jon reports the Inverted L is working very well on 160m and the other bands.

Marcin M0GLV has been very busy with making ATU for himself  and band pass filters for the Club, and now installing his long wire aerial, on some big poles in the garden.

He also reports having great fun of CW working allsorts of DX and Most bands.

Photos to come

 

Kevin 2E0OAH now at his new QTH has his Cobweb and Inverted L up and running,

Good to hear Kevin back on the Air.

Photos to come

 

Charlie 2E0CIK has been busy fine tuning his station and getting back on the air nice to see him back on the radio and now on HF as well done Charlie, only been 4 years mate, thanks for the photos

 

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All in all the members have been busy in some sharp or form over the summer, we have had some great events and contest  on as well within the Club.

Well done every one.

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SP DX Contest 2014 Results Are In

The SP DX Contest 2014 Results are in this weekend, this contest saw the coming together of a partnership. One that took on the world in the Polish DX contest, and on initial feelings produced a grand score.
For the 24 hours period of operating, Marcin (M0GLV) and Kevin (2E0KVK) were locked in the shack throughout and operated over 5 different bands in their bid to do well in this contest.

Marcin with Kevin in the back ground rag chewing on 40m

Marcin with Kevin in the back ground rag chewing on 40m

During the operating period, they were visited by other members of the club who gave both moral support as well as sustenance support.
These guys were not going to give in to the lure of sleep, come midday on the Sunday, these two operators looked like they needed to sleep for a week. With an overdose of caffeine, they went their separate ways, home to bed. Left behind was the log, with a terrific 599 contacts as only polish station could be worked.

Little did they know this score would get them first place in the UK in there category and 8th in europe well done Guys one for the shack wall.

http://www.spdxcontest.pzk.org.pl/res/2014/index.php?k=ENGLAND

MO AB MIXED

 

Place

Call

QSOs

Points

Mult

Score

1

M0HFC

599

1 797

66

118 602

 

EU (no SP)

MO AB MIXED

No. CALL QSOs Points Mult Score Year
1

EI0PL

1145 3435 93 319455 2014
2

UT7E

975 2925 87 254475 2014
3

RN3F

880 2640 95 250800 2014
4

ES5G

859 2571 95 244245 2014
5

LA2AB

925 2775 85 235875 2014
6

RK4HYT

550 1650 89 146850 2014
7

SK7K

605 1815 76 137940 2014
8

M0HFC

599 1797 66 118602 2014
9

EI1NC

500 1500 57 85500 2014
10

RC3W

518 1554 51 79254 2014

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IARU Contest 2014

IARU Contest 2014 H.F.D.X.A.R.C  take part for 24 hours of non stop contesting.

Operators worked in shifts over the 24hr period. Sleeping and resting when they can as Steve 2E0NSQ is seen here doing, sorry for the pics Steve.  We worked over a 1000 Qso in the 24hr the bands was not too good for us, we are still awaiting the results.

We all enjoyed, Kevin even showed of his house cleaning skill don’t Tel the XYL boy’s.20140712_190941 20140713_080558 20140713_083504 20140713_104157 20140713_112523

 

Taking part was

Dave G4ASA

Marcin M0GLV /SP4BHD  Steve 2E0NSQ

Kevin 2E0KVK

Andy G7LRR

John M0JBA

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