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A Journey, The Invictus Games and Archery

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On Wednesday night, Mick M6OYP, a member of or club gave a talk on his journey with the Invictus games and Archery. Starting at 7:30pm members of the club moved into the village hall where Mick talked through his presentation on the Invictus Games and how he had applied to volunteer at the next Games in 2022. Mick then went on to tell the story of how a chance meeting of the members of the Invictus Games GB team turned into a new found joy of Archery with the intention of taking his initial competition wins further by training to … Continue reading →

A talk on Half Wave End Fed Antennas

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Earlier this month Steve, M5ZZZ, gave a talk to the members on End Fed Half Wave Antennas. Steve started out by showing a selection of videos produced by Waters & Stanton. Steve then told us about his own experiences with Half Wave End Fed Antennas and passed round a 49:1 Transformer to show how easily one could be made. It is hoped that from this talk members will be encouraged to go out and try building there on EFHW even if it is used as an easy portable setup.

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Surplus Equipment Sale and Friday afternoon at the shack

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To try and make the Surplus Equipment Sale Covid safe, the lots will be displayed in a marque with the sides open to allow for plenty of ventilation and the sale will be in the village hall with socially distanced seating and all doors open again allowing for plenty of ventilation. Your safety is our priority. To achieve this the lads went to the club this afternoon to erect the marquee (big tent really) ready for displaying the lots tomorrow. Booking in of equipment will be from 12 noon with the sale starting at 2 p.m.  Usual refreshments will be … Continue reading →

Filming at East Kirkby

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North One TV, who are in the process of making a programme outlining the design, specification & the crews of the  WW2 Lancaster bomber, asked our club to help with a CW sequence during which their anchor man Guy Martin would familiarise himself with the vintage Marconi R1155/T1154 & send a short message in morse using a ‘bathtub’ key.   Quite a tall order for a man who is an ace on a motor bike but has never touched a morse key in his life before or operate a vintage radio!    Our club team decided to set up a temporary station in the control tower using the call GX5FZ & Guy would communicate with it from our nearby Lancaster facsimile station, equipped with a serviceable R1155/T1154 in our East Kirkby ‘Shack’ using the call GB2CWP.  Guy, as you can imagine, was full of enthusiasm, determination to get the job done to the best of … Continue reading →

GB2CWP on Air

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On Tuesday 21st September Steve M5ZZZ and David G1WVO opened the radio room at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby to visitors.  They had lots of interested people and several took up the offer of trying to send their name in Morse code.  Brian G4HIV also joined the team and operated and demonstrated the R1155/T1154.  The radio room is next open to the public on Tuesday 19th October 2021.. David G1WVO

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Saturday morning at the shack

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Two working parties at the club this morning, Roger G3PVU and Steve M5ZZZ were in the shack sorting out and testing some of the surplus equipment for the sale on 10th October; they were moving so fast the first photo blurred!! Then there was work to be done on the antennas and this party consisted of Les G1LQB, Andy M0IYE, David M7OYN, Daron 2E0GFY and Martin M0TNM.

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Saturday afternoon at the shack

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Established in 1921 the club celebrated 100 years of amateur radio on 21st February 2021 unfortunately due to lockdown we were unable to ‘party’,  Once lockdown was eased and we could start meeting again we organised a Sausage and Burger afternoon which took place today.  We were joined by a few members from Hull & District Amateur Radio Society who also celebrate 100 years of amateur radio in Hull this year and from RAF Waddington ARC our neighbouring amateur radio club. A big ‘thank you’ to Linda M0KEDs XYL, Jackie G3PVUs XYL and Steve M5ZZZ for help with the food … Continue reading →

Another Saturday morning at the shack

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When I arrived at the shack this morning Andy M0IYE had already got stuck in distributing the gravel in the parking area; sweat was rolling off me just looking!!  When Stephen M5SJM arrived he levelled the gravel, they certainly earned their cuppa this morning.  I got stuck in finishing off cleaning the BBQ ready for the 28th and then cleaning the chairs; they had been weathered for over two years!!! 

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