Lincoln Short Wave Club

Everyone is suffering from high noise levels on the HF bands and at time the bands are unusable because of the high noise levels. Due to the design of modern transceiver’s and all the aerials in your garden are designed for receive and transmit, you switch between aerials for the best receive signal and use that one. Continue reading QRN!!!!!

I was asked to see if I could find a program to calculate the Maidenhead Locator from Grid Squares. I have been unable to find a program but I have found a very good site that serves the purpose http://no.nonsense.ee/qthmap/ which you may find very useful.

I must admit that this is my preferred method of communication but I am concerned by the poor standard of CW that I am hearing on the bands. It will not do any good to complain about the poor CW, I would rather give advice to bring the standards up. I am very concerned that someone who has just reached 12 wpm and gained the Morse competence certificate can start teaching Morse code without knowing the pitfalls that can happen. Continue reading Morse Mad!

It has come to my notice after sorting out the registered users of this web site that three users have invalid email addresses. Could I please ask users to make sure that they check their account and that their current email address is valid.

All accounts that have invalid emails will be DELETED by the 11th of August 2010 and the users will have to register again with a valid email, to use the website.

Any queries please Email me

3rd and 4th – VHF NFD from our contest site at Brattleby
7th – Contest Debrief
10th – Special Event Station using G5FZ/P at Boultham Summer Fair
14th – Talk on planning permission – M5ZZZ
17th-  G5FZ on air from the shack and jobs around the shack
21st – G5FZ on the air & Natter Night
24th – G5FZ on air from the shack and jobs around the shack
28th – G5FZ on the air & Natter Night
31st  – G5FZ on air from the shack and jobs around the shack and Planned opening of our permanent station GB2CWP in the Radio Room at East Kirkby Aviation Heritage Centre

The National Hamfest organised by Lincoln Short Wave Club in association with the RSGB will be the first event of the first Ham Week UK. The week hopes to raise the profile of the hobby. Clubs are asked to arrange events to interest the General Public. Permanent special event callsigns will also be asked to go on the air that week.

LSWC will activate their permanent special event callsign GB2CWP from the East Kirkby Avaition Heritage Centre. The vintage T1154 and R1155 will hopefully be on the air and club members would like to arrange skeds with other users of vintage gear. (The set up is pictured in the article below).

Club members will also be activating GB10NH a few days before the National Hamfest and at the event. During Ham Week UK it will also be on the air from the club HQ.

The Lincoln Short Wave Club in association with the RSGB are organising the event at the Newark Showground on Cotober 1st and 2nd.

The event will mark the start of the first HAM WEEK UK. A special event station will oerate from the show and during the following week using the callsign GB10NH

Details of the show can be found at www.nationalhamfest.org.uk

Saturday morning June 5 – Party in the Park, Grimsthorpe Castle – Special Event Station – GG100PIP, Celebrating 100 years of Girl Guiding

Saturday June 19th – Planned opening of our permanent station GB2CWP in the Radio Room at East Kirkby Aviation Heritage Centre – Volunteers required’

Saturday mornings 12th, 19th and 26th  – G5FZ on air from the shack and odd jobs around the shack

Wednesdays
June 2 – G5FZ on the air
June 9 – Talk on AWACS
June 16 – G5FZ on the air and natter night
June 23 – G5FZ on the air
June 30 – G5FZ on the air and Bar-be-cue

The raw unchecked results are in and it looks like G5FZ was 41st in Europe and 3rd in UK in our class. We’ll have to wait for the adjusted result before cracking the champagne open.