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Continue reading →Lincolnshire Poacher International
Site nearly set up and getting ready for the Scouts and Guides Communication Badge instruction which starts tomorrow Sunday 28th of July. Site set up by Mark M0ZLE, Dave M0KWM, Pete G1FLL, Les G1LQB, Pam G4STO, Gerry G6KGG, Ian G4XFC, Peter M0EJL, James G0EUN, Bob G7AVU and Steve M5ZZZ. We will be operating on HF and VHF all week and looking for stations that would like to exchange greetings messages from the Scouts. The station will be active from 0900 to 1700 each day.
Continue reading →East Kirkby GB2CWP
It was a lovely day at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre as the sun was shining all day, perfect if you came to enjoy the 1940’s event that was going on all day. If you had come to play radio, with between S8 & S9 of noise on 40mtrs we had very few contacts. The plan today was to use the T1154 / R1155, but because of technical problems first with the R1155 which appeared to be deaf and was replaced with another one, then the T1154 which had HT problems though we don’t know yet if it was the T1154 … Continue reading →
GB70DAM Special Memorial Station.
As most of you are aware 16-17th May 2013 was the 70th Anniversary of the Dambusters raid. Steve M5ZZZand the dedicated few usually run GB5DAM but this year we felt we needed a more significant callsign and after much wrangling Steve received the NOV for GB70DAM. The station was set up and ready to roll by 11am with Bob G7AVU kindly making a 23cm stream possible so people all round the world could watch live via the GB3VL stream on the BATC website. At the peak on the GB3VL stream we had 2000 viewers!! The first contact from RAF Scampton to … Continue reading →
Mills on the Air
Club members who attended and operated the special event station GB5EM at Ellis Mill in Lincoln were; Louise 2E0LOT, Dave M0KWM, Les G1LQB, Stan M6MJP, Chris M6WGT, Pete G1FFL and Steve M5ZZZ who read the RSGB News from his car. [scrollGallery id=6]
Continue reading →Dambusters Special Event Station GB70DAM
On the 16/17th May 2013 the Lincoln Short Wave Club are operating a Special Event Station in memory of the Air Crew and German civilians killed during the now famous 617 Squadron’s raid on the great Ruhr dams of Germany. The station will be on RAF Scampton’s bomb dump which is where Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bomb would have been delivered on 16th May 1943. The station will start at 15.00 local time on 16th May 2013 and transmit through the night on 40 and 80 metres 3.617 MHz band conditions permitting. Transmissions will cease at 15.00 local time on the … Continue reading →
Talk on the AWACS by Alan M0XVR
Tonight club member Alan M0XVR A.K.A. George the Porsche gave a very enjoyable and instructional talk on the role of the Airborne Warning and Control System which he was involved with up to recently.
Continue reading →Lincoln Short Wave club Wins RSGB National Club of the Year
We arrived at the Institution of Engineering and Technology just after 11 a.m. after climbing 193 steps to get out of Covent Garden underground, apparently that is equivalent to 15 storeys, for the 86 Annual General Meeting of the RSGB. The AGM was over quite quickly and was followed by the presentation of the various awards the RSGB Club of the Year being the last to be presented. In third place was Warrington ARC Region 3, in second place Newbury and District ARS Region 9 and in first place Lincoln Short Wave Club Region 13. In the top photo from … Continue reading →
Refurbishing a Linear Amp (Part Four)
After serious thought on the layout of the components on this Linear Amp especially the placement of the filament transformer and the position of the RCA 813 valves for cooling, I decided that the best thing to do was to remove everything and reposition it better within the chassis. Initially my thoughts were to sort the amp out and get it working keeping the same layout, but as I progressed I was not happy with the layout, so this has now actually turned into building a 1kw Linear Amp from some recycled parts as I am now modifying a lot … Continue reading →
Refurbishing a Linear Amp (Part Three)
Because of finding dangerous faults during this project, this Linear Amp was not a refurbishment but a complete rebuild. I would advise others not to do this work unless they are experienced in what they are doing, as inexperience could result in DEATH as LETHAL VOLTAGES are involved. For reference, this linear is not pretty and is being brought back to life as a working project and will only be used safely in my shack, it will not be entered into any beauty contest. I changed the way the valve bases had been fitted to provided better ventilation by removing … Continue reading →
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