We arrived on the Friday morning to be given a warm welcome by the IBCC staff as always. Everyone was soon hard at work in the very hot weather setting up the army tent and station in time for the event opening at 1pm. The Club setup a fairly simple station just a half wave end fed between two Clarke masts and a colinear on the nearest mast for VHF / UHF. The station was soon setup and ready to welcome the public to the tent. In addition to the SES we had our normal bathtub CW key to computer … Continue reading →

You wouldn’t think adults could have so much fun with the younger generation, well they can, the age gap didn’t get in the way and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, see the beams on the faces of some of the youngsters. It is sad but Poacher has come to an end, apart from clearing up on Saturday. Volunteers today included Andy M0IYE, Les G1LQB, Stuart 2E0SFK, Marc M7DEU, Steve M5ZZZ, Graham M1DHV and Pam G4STOall from LSWC and Barry G4DBS and Tony G4GNC from RAF Waddington ARC and we roped in Adrian M6RSF from the Scouting fraternity to give us … Continue reading →

From the smiles on the faces of some of the Scouts and Guides you can see that an enjoyable day was had by our visitors. As for our volunteers they certainly enjoyed their time explaining amateur radio and Morse code , tuning the bands looking for 25 different stations and helping scouts and guides send Greetings messages. Our regular volunteers were present, Andy M0IYE, Steve M5ZZZ, Stuart 2E0SFK, Les G1LQB, Graham M1DHV, Andy M0KED, G3VEV, M0TNM, M7DEU and G4STO and today we were joined by Tony, G4GNC from RAF Wadding ARC.

Today was the 2nd day of activities for the Scouts and Guides and we weren’t disappointed, 30-40 were greeted by Les G1LQB who briefly explained the hobby. Bob G3VEV and Andy M0IYE demonstrated CW, Barry G4DBS, Mark M7DEU, Steve M5ZZZ, Stuart 2E0SFK, Graham M1DHV, Mary G6SWZ, G6EWP and Pam G4STO were on hand to help ‘tune the bands’ to get 25 different radio stations and to talk to the Scouts and Guides when we couldn’t find anyone further afield.   One station that was worked by Stuart was SC22JAM, Stephan in Sweden who is also running an International Scout Jamboree in the … Continue reading →

Cars all loaded we set off for Poacher at around 10 o’clock this morning. Work started on the receiving aerials and then we moved over to the masts where we have a fine array of aerials. We have the TH5 (I think that’s what it is) and a co-linear for 2M and 70CMS. On the other mast we have beams for the serious frequencies, 23CMS television, 70CMS and 2M, Sunday is the start of the Scouts and Guides visiting our set-up, they will get an introduction to amateur radio, listen to QSOs and send greetings messages, probably send their name … Continue reading →