As those who were at the programme planning session last week know I rather haphazardly stepped into the planning for this years event!! Know I was really happy to honestly LOL.
On a serious note I will be asking for volunteers who may want to enlist their help and support on the event which we are considering is 2 instead of 3 days as was last year. Current dates set are 30th April – 2nd May and over the weekend we will be hoping to run a club equipment test day and still to be decided perhaps a personal equipment day?
We have new members amongst us since last years event. I am particularly keen to enlist them if I may and perhaps we can discuss your thoughts and what you feel you would like to be experimenting with.
For now then if can ask anyone interested in helping on the day, staying over the weekend and/or coming to specific theme if it were to run to post their thoughts to this page and more importantly their project request/s that they feel we should explore over the weekend. I am keen to make this a clear themed event this year e.g. frequency, band/s, antenna type, radio type, home brew etc etc.
We have some On Air Nights coming up so I intend to enlist a few people to help so be prepared to be volunteered!
See you all on Weds.
Mark M6KMJ
I would, of course, like to see the hexbeam atop John’s tower again and some nice HF contacts 😉
Whatever we do, we need to make sure we capture video and still images to publicise the event and the club on our website and other media channels. Last year I spent an afternoon training a couple of people – perhaps we should do something similar but focused at the Intermediate license.
Andrew
G0RVM
Testing improving and learning how to set up and get the best from the club equipment is a good idea and can lead us to clear ideas about new equipment we may want to add and construct at a future date.
I would like to see the club 2m ssb / cw rig and linear running and link this to the 3 element mfj yagi loaned to us by Andy. All the equipment for vhf ssb was donated by club members.