VILLAGE HALL CAR PARK

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A few months ago I was asked if members of the Lincoln Short Wave Club could help form a working party with other regular users of the Village Hall to spread gravel on the car park.  True to LSWC form a working party was arranged and by Saturday 26th October 11 tons of gravel had been delivered ready to spread.  Fifteen of our members turned out to help (average age I believe a few years over 60, it was young David who brought it down to that level!!!) together with Steve and Chris from the Village Hall Committee. Work was … Continue reading →

GB3LS officially open for business on IRLP

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Ofcom issued NOV today, so here we go, even found that Santa has a node at the North Pole , already to send request for IC7800 to him when next at radio. To use just open repeater as normal and then whist mic open us DTMF key pad to send 4 digit node and unmet and you will hear the remote repeater acknowledge and open, then either breaking or call as normal. List of IRLP nodes on irlp.net. Looks like another way of having radio fun, so from now on the first thing to pack when going away is your … Continue reading →

Poacher Update

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Gerry G6KGG busy working with the scouts helping them to send greetings messages, while Pam G4STO fills out the Communication Certificate for them which goes towards the Scouts Communication Badge. The team has been very busy, and found it difficult to fit everything into the half hour slot allocated to the scouts so at times some pileups of scouts had to be worked through. The weather was fine up to today Wednesday when the rain started and then everything got a bit damp. Today’s highlight was a Russian Guide from the Urals whose grasp of the English was basic but … Continue reading →

Lincolnshire Poacher International

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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.

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East Kirkby GB2CWP

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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.

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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 →

Dambusters Special Event Station GB70DAM

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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 →