Lincoln Short Wave Club

Whilst on 20m working some short skip into Europe on Saturday 31st July, we were called by SK0SAS/AM. This is the club callsign of  SAS,  the Scandinavian Airline and was being operated Aeronautical Mobile. The operator Eskil was one of the pilots on board. They are allowed to operate on the amateur bands when in [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Saturday (19th June) it was hard to believe we were just two days away from mid-summer day with high winds and heavy rain showers and the temperature struggling to make 14C.   Fortuitously it was a little more comfortable in shelter of the ‘Radio Room’ at East Kirkby as the club team, pictured above, took advantage of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.