Lincoln Short Wave Club

The National Hamfest is taking place on Friday 30^th September – Saturday 1^st October. Gates open at 7:30am for Flea Market Setup and 9:30am for the public. The George Stephenson Hall opens at 10am. On Wednesday 28^th September members from local clubs helped set out tables in the hall (in record time) in readiness for the exhibitors arriving on Thursday 29^th September.

Terry and Bob admiring some of the goodies for the Repeater Stand

The Hall already for exhibitors

The Repeater Group Stand

The Mess Tent

The Bring and Buy Marquee

Almost there with the erection of the Bring and Buy Marquee

Please note the shack will not be open on Wednesday 28^th September and Saturday 1^st October as members will be at the National Hamfest on Newark and Nottinghamshire Showground.

Using his ‘home brew ‘Tesla coil’ spark generator and a fluorescent tube, Brian Hiley (M0YXB) showed how electromagnetic energy is transmitted wirelessly through free space. This simple but effective demonstration served as a very effective introduction to his talk on Antenna Modelling, to an audience of some 20 radio amateurs gathered at the LSWC HQ in Aisthorpe on Wednesday evening 31^st August.

The basics and application of the MMANA-GAL Antenna Analysing tool was the core of Brian’s both fascinating and informative well illustrated presentation.   He explained how the programme, which is freely available for download from the Internet, may be used to assess just how successful our antenna systems may be by entering their specifications (nothing too complex eg: Height, frequency, length and feed point) and amongst many other things, seeing ‘the unseen’ viz: their polar diagrams and thus being able to derive from that the best application. (eg inter ‘G’, DX etc). Other factors including SWR, power, traps, baluns and type of antennas were discussed and all in all, especially from the Q and A’s during the talk, it was clearly a very popular subject.

So why not have a go at applying the analysis tool to your existing or planned installations, it’s all positive stuff and you too will be able to see and assess ‘the unseen’!

Many thanks to Brian for coming up from Harby near Melton Mowbray – much appreciated – 73

Peter (M0EJL) for LSWC.

Photos M5ZZZ

What better way could Tom, G4OSB celebrate his 80^th Birthday?
About 30 of his friends from LSWC together with XYLs and a couple of children joined Tom at the shack for a Sausage and Burger afternoon prepared by Pam, G4STO and her ‘assistant’ Steve, M5ZZZ. Pam and Steve did Tom proud with the specially selected Sausages and Burgers, salads and sweets. Pam was up until gone mid-night on Friday preparing trifles and fruit salad for the occasion; the sherry trifle was quickly consumed!!!
A big ‘thank you’ to all who helped make Tom’s Birthday special. Below are a few photos from the day.

We didn’t manage to get a photo of Tom on the day so this is one I had from our visit to Boultham Fair in July 2015 when he was a mere 78 and a bit years old!

Pam’s Car Boot

                                                   James one of Pam’s helpers

Steve doing some cooking                          Some of the guests