At our weekly club meeting on 9th Sept, we had a talk and demonstration on using smartphone apps to encode and decode images for SSTV. These just use the phone’s mic and speaker to send and receive audio via a handheld on 2m FM. No cables were used to connect to the radios, we were just using the radio’s speaker and mic, so no extra equipment was needed other than smartphones and handheld radios.
The field weekend at Berkeley was an outstanding success and was enjoyed by everyone that attended.
We were blessed with excellent weather.
Many thanks to all those involved with organising and running, and to everyone who came.
We have a daily net on GB3ZB repeater (you can also listen on 430.825 Mhz FM) at 10:30-11:00am.
We also have a weekly net on Friday evenings, 20:00 to 21:00, on 145.500 Mhz FM, usually moving to 145.550 if free.
Visitors are very welcome to come and join us !
The club will be holding our annual field weekend on the 22nd and 23rd of August at Berkeley.
With lots of space available to us, we will be able to build and experiment with antennas that are too big to fit into our gardens.
We will be transmitting using the clubs callsign GX4ABC.
Brickworks and RSGB
Our South West regional RSGB representative visited the club to present
Brickworks certificates to three of our members.
Well done to you all.
Pictures and a few paragraphs have been submitted to the RadCom magazine.
Due to the current weather conditions and Met Office Weather warnings for heat it has been decided to postpone the talk by John M0HFH on antennas. Instead the club will be open for an operating and social night.
At 20:00 local time we will be calling on the local repeater GB3WR using the club call GX4ABC, after that other frequencies may get used.
A change to tonights programme!
John (M0HFH) & Martyn (M9VMT) will be talking about antennas for field day and the club infrastructure.
Stan (G0RYM) has answers from questions and follow up to last weeks WAB Talk.
Neil (G8NJL) and Sam (M7LGY) talking about their SOTA activation.
Sam (M7LGY) is going to describe his experience building a Yagi.
Wed evening will include a brief overview of the Club’s history which Terry (M0TJX) is pulling together. The opportunity will be taken to put up a few old photos to see if it jogs any memories for the project!
The evening will include a Talk given by Martyn (M9VMT) covering tools used for the electronic method(s) of logging.
It was announced last night at Club (29th Apr 2026) John formerly (M9KIU) had secured his Full Licence. Congratulations John! we await your new callsign.
Update 11th May 2026
John’s New Callsign is G6JWB