SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS

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SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS 2014 International Mills Weekend Sunday 11th May 2014 10.00 – 16.00   LSWC intend to operate from two historic windmills this year. Heckington Windmill GB2HWM on your left and as usual Ellis Mill GB5EM pictured to your right. If you are interested in helping with any aspect of operating these stations please contact Dave M0KWM who is coordinating Heckington Mill or Steve M5ZZZ who will coordination Ellis Mill, there are cafeteria facilities close to both mills, weather permitting it should be a lovely day out. Dambusters Memorial GB5DAM 16th / 17th May 2014 The Club will be … Continue reading →

Surplus Equipment Sale

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Wednesday 30th April 2014 USED EQUIPMENT SALE Aisthorpe Village Hall Items for sale check in from 1900 Auction starts 2000 prompt Included in the items for sale will be: MFJ Active Antenna, Model MFJ-1020B Global Coupler AT2000 Howes Communiciations Receiver (complete but needs finishing) FRG100 Receiver with Operating Manual Radio Shack Speaker Booklet – Scanners 3 – Putting Scanners into Practice

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FOUNDATION COURSE

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Arrangements are in hand to hold a Foundation Course at the club commencing Saturday morning 10th May. This course will be run by George M0XVR and will take place over two weekends 10th/11th May and 17th/18th May followed by the examination on Saturday 24th May. If you are interested in joining this course then, in the first instance, please contact Pam Rose, LSWC Secretary via the contact tab above.

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Informal Morse Group

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PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN ARTICLE FROM 2014 AND WE NO LONGER MEET AT THE BSA CLUB (NOW CLOSED) TO PRACTICE MORSE.  G4STO, LSWC SECRETARY. Due to a lot of interest in Morse at the club, an informal Morse Group will meet at the BSA Club at 8:30pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Discussions will include learning Morse using the Koch Method, receiving problems, sending techniques and using Morse on the bands. The meetings will be hosted by RSGB Morse Assessor Ian G4XFC, founder of the Morse Crusade. Bring you own Morse Key and practice sending in a … Continue reading →

Cheap Lab Power Supply

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For the Homebrewer, having a multi voltage power supply can be very handy especially if you are just experimenting. A cheap switched power supply used in computers can give you all the power you need for your experiments, but the problem is that it will not power up when disconnected from the computer. The solution is easier than you think, due to the fact that there is a standard colour code used by most manufactures of ATX power supplies and you don’t need to open the box to get it up and running. Although there is a lot of wires, … Continue reading →

Top Band Base Loaded Short Vertical

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G3LIQ / G4ERZ Top Band Vertical 50Ohm Coax feed. Info by G4SEF (Corrected by G4XFC) The original publication by G4SEF had a mistake in wire size quoting 1.2 AWG which is over 7mm instead of 1.2mm magnetic wire, which fits into the length of the designed loading coil. For practical and economical purposes I recalculated the loading coil with 16 AWG (1.25mm) magnetic wire. Calculation on the original publication meant that over 52mtrs of wire was needed for the loading coil which meant you had to purchase a 1Kg roll to wind the coil as their is approx 92mtrs of … Continue reading →

Future Events

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 THE NEW LOOK RSGB Presented by Graham Coomber G0NBI RSGB General Manager Aisthorpe Village Hall  ************ Wednesday 30th April 2014 USED EQUIPMENT SALE Aisthorpe Village Hall Items for sale check in from 19.00. Auction starts 20.00 prompt Web: www.g5fz.co.uk  For information on any aspect of the Club activities please contact: Steve M5ZZZ LSWC Activities Officer Email: activitiesofficer@g5fz.co.uk

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International Space Station

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Dave Wright M0KWM is going to try and join over GB3LS and IRLP to the international Space Station this Friday about 08:30 UTC.  Dave will sort out link so nothing else needs to be done.   We will not be able to QSL during this but still should be interesting.  Details on link below.  Just tune into repeater and no need to do anything else.  Note true link will only be live to the ISS will last about 10 minutes http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/february/ariss_audio_event_2102.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmateurRadioNews+%28Southgate+Amateur+Radio+News%29#.UwSvYX8gGK0

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