This month’s Meeting on August 21st is a talk by Martin Lynch (G4HKS) on the history of his World Famous Ham Radio Store. This is thanks to Mike (G3PGA) and definitely a
date for your diary, so look forward to seeing many of you there.
We will be attending the Bideford fair in Victoria park again this year. Fingers crossed the weather is as good as last year. We will hopefully be back in our usual spot, so make sure you arrive at 10am to help set up, and just as importantly, be there at 4pm to help take down! Operators also needed throughout the event.
We’ve had a lovely email from Chloe Pedersen, of Wyoming in the USA. Chloe runs a fun ham radio and broadcasting history class for 10-14 year olds, and has been making use of the resources on our club website. One of her group, Dylan, would like to share an article that he and his father recently found together, on Broadcasting and its History. It includes a breakdown on the early 20th century, Reginald Fessenden’s first broadcasting experiments, the Herrold School experimenting with radio transmissions and call signs in 1909, and Post World War II radio broadcasting developments.
You can read the article here: Broadcasting and it’s History
A very productive 2 days with nearly 300 QSO’s in the log. We had to take down the aerial after the first day, so Terry, Mike W, Mike H and John arrived at 9.30 and got the station back up and running by 10.10. Things were off to a slow start with poor propagation, but picked up as the morning went on, and by close of play at 4pm we were back to pileup conditions. All in all, a very successful and enjoyable weekend. eQSL cards have now been sent to all in the log. Thank you to all who took part, and to the Bideford Heritage railway for being so helpful and accommodating. Hopefully we will be back next year.
We are taking part in this year’s Railways on the air event. So far conditions on the Saturday have been very good. Thanks to everyone who turned up to help, Terry, John, Alan, Mike, Les and Graham.
This month’s Meeting on September 19th has been cancelled as this is the date for the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
ADARC will be attending the Bideford fair this year to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We will be using the special call sign GQ2FKO. We will be setting up from 9.am and hoping to be active from 10.00am. Gates open at 11am and close at 4pm.
