Heckington Windmill

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A few members of the club (2E0LOT, M0KWM, M5ZZZ and G4XFC, spent Saturday and Sunday putting on a special event station at Heckington Mill.Heckington Windmill is the only 8-sailed tower windmill still standing in the UK with its sails intact. It was built in 1830 to plans by millwright Edward Ingeldew and has six storeys called “floors”: ground floor, meal floor, stone (stage) floor, lower bin floor, upper bin floor (hoist floor), dust or cap floor.   Photos ‘stolen’ from the Club’s Facebook page.

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Intermediate Examination

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An Intermediate Course was successfully completed when David Kelly, Tom Williams, Victoria Williams and Fiona Farrer passed their exam which was held in the BSA Village Hall at Aisthorpe on Sunday 7th September 2014. Pictured l-r are David M6FSB, Tom M6TMO, Ian G4XFC (Course Instructor), Vicki M6VKW and Fiona.

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Shack Painting

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  Relaxing in the shack before work commenced. For the amount of people that turned up to help at the shack this morning (26th July) there was a lot of varying activities; washing down the shack, work again on the SteppIR, repairs to the white board and Les found a use for some of the grease in the drum at the end of the shack and greased the trailer mast.              After the ends of the shack had been washed down Peter M0EJL and James G0EUN started painting whilst Steve M5ZZZ, Gerry G6KGG, Bob G7AVU and … Continue reading →

Ever wondered what happened to that pile of rubbish at the end of the shack?

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  You probably haven’t noticed it’s gone but if you have noticed, have you wondered what happened to it, that’s the pile of rubbish that was left at the west end of the shack. Well I took it home and practiced being an arsonist!  I left the container of grease for others to deal with.       I suggest nothing is left lying around or it may end up at the bottom of my garden! 

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Bloultham Park Fair

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I met Steve M5ZZZ at the shack at 0830 on Saturday to pick up the equipment for Boultham Park Fair; why do we always leave everything we do to the last minute? I got there early so emptied the shed to get to the generator then, after getting the generator out, replaced everything I had got out only to see the white board we needed behind what I had put back, it stayed there! Both cars full we set off for Boultham about 0850. We arrived at Boultham Park soon after 0900 where Tom G4OSB and Ian G4EVK were waiting … Continue reading →

VHF NFD

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Several members took part in VHF NFD again this year; I think tempers were a little fraught whilst setting up in the morning but things had calmed down by the time I returned to prepare the sausages and burgers with help from Louise 2E0LOT in the evening.     We did wonder where the frying pan had disappeared to only to find it being used as an antenna!!!!

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