Easter BBQ and a Thankyou

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On Saturday 31st March the first BBQ of the year was held for all Members. It was very well organized by Steve M5ZZZ, Marc M7DEU and Pam G4STO. Marc Manned the BBQ along with Linda. Producing some excellent Burgers and Sausages. With Side salads, potatoes, onions, sauces andcheesecakes all available in the Village Hall. Pam organised the Easter Quiz which went down very well with the winning team going home with their prised Easter eggs. The weather remained sunny for the entire event so the many members that attended enjoyed a great get together on the Lawn out front of … Continue reading →

FirPark SES 2024

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The Lincoln Shortwave Club is proud to announce that they will be attending The FirPark Free Show, GB5FPS, on the 8th & 9th of June and FirPark Wings and Wheels, GB5WW, on the 24th – 26th August. The Club has attended this event for a number of years now demonstrating Amateur Radio to the public. This year we will be demonstrating HF Voice, Data Modes, VHF, Satellite Operation and also QO100 DATV and Voice. Members of the public will be able to try their hand at operating the radio and also be able to make contacts to others around the … Continue reading →

Winter Rally 2024

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The Winter Rally will be held on the 28th January 2024 at the Festival Hall in Market Rasen. Address:The Festival HallCaistor RoadMarket RasenLN8 3HT Doors open at 9am. With entry being £2, Cash Only. Extra parking available on the Market Place, John St Carpark and on Mill lane. Talk in on 145.375MHz Attending Stalls:Canny Components, Mirfield Electronics, Alan Clegg, Your Radio Club, Micky The Battery Man, TK Electronics and numerous other small sellers. Food and drink will be available: If you wish to book a table at the Rally then table are £10. Contact:Steve (M5ZZZ)Tel: 07777699069Email: m5zzz@outlook.com

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Christmas Quiz and Buffet

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It was a good turnout on Wednesday for Pam’s Quiz Night with 11 teams taking part, unfortunately not many with the right answers!!!!  Les G1LQB and David M6OYN and Stephen M5SJM and Kat were joint winners with 9 points each, Les and David won on a tie break, luckily there were enough prizes for all four winners. Les G1LQB and David M6OYN After the quiz members enjoyed a lite buffet.  Food, glorious food, sorry no chicken skewer.

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Construction Contest

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The annual construction contest was held on 22nd November: Maurice 2E0HYI had a Morse key he had designed and made and luckily had with him and Ian M7BKF his Kanga Universal Keyer After long and careful consideration by the members present it was agreed that Ian’s keyer should be awarded first place and he should receive the Joe Rose Trophy.

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Transmitting Morse in Terahertz.

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A little while ago whilst browsing on a well-known auction internet website I bought a boxed lettered cam set. The stores reference number 5c/2210 on the box denoted they came from the RAF. Initially at first, I thought they were probably for creating the morse characters for an airfield pundit identification beacon. Later research of the airfield morse pundit beacon indicated that the morse letters were created by a larger rotary stud contactor and the airfield identification required two morse characters (F G) for RAF Skellingthorpe. I then looked up the stores reference number for the box 5c/2210 and the … Continue reading →

RAF AIR Defence Radar Museum Neatishead.

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Whilst on a recent holiday in Sheringham North Norfolk with my two nephews Mark M3FKL and Graham M3FKM we navigated the North Norfolk narrow country lanes to visit the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead. The site was built in 1941 with hardened building and served through out WW2 up to the present date as a radar installation. It still is an operational air defence radar head controlled remotely from RAF Boulmer, Alnwick, Northumberland. The museum site is vast with over 20 exhibition rooms, radar antenna arrays, WW2 radar displays, jet fighter cockpits and a fully equipped underground cold … Continue reading →

August visit to the Radio Room at East Kirkby

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Today Thursday the 17th of August was our scheduled visit to the Radio Room at East Kirkby. Club members Steve M5ZZZ, Steve G7JHU, Brian G4HIV and Dave G1WVO all met up in the NAFFI before opening the radio room. We had a steady flow of visitors through the Radio Room although there were no taxi runs today due to the very busy Bike Night last night. Brian G4HIV netted up the vintage pair when we noticed a small fault when the transmitter changed from transmit to receive there was a loud crack in the headphones which we will try and … Continue reading →

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Club member Andy G0FVI has had an article published in the July edition of Radcom, which wasbased on a talk he gave to the club several years back about working DX on the HF low bands (160-30m). This is the fifth article Andy has had published in Radcom and the third this year. Other topicsinclude getting going on 13cm, an introduction to 23cm and portable operating from a vehicle. Andyis no stranger to writing and has had numerous articles published in several international researchjournals. If you’ve got any topics that you’d like to see in Radcom do have a go … Continue reading →