Radio News

MORE CANCELLED RALLIES: The Bishop Auckland Rally (November 22nd) has had to be cancelled this year as has the Holsworthy Radio Rally due to take place on November 1st.

G-QRP CLUB VIRTUAL CONVENTION: A suggestion by Chairman Steve G0FUW for a Zoom chat turned into something much bigger, an online Convention with over 500 attendees. Talks included Hans G0UPL of QRP Labs, talking

about his kits, Heather M0HMO discussing antenna analysers and Dom M1KTA talking about organising a QRP DXpedition. Next was HF Propagation predictions from Steve G0KYA, Mark MM0DQM speaking about his experiments with magnetic loops and Steve G0FUW with a beginner’s guide to QRP.

One of the highlights was Pete N6QW spreading the word about his homebrew SSB transceivers. John VE3IPS discussed T2FD dipoles, Gil F4WBY shared his knowledge of QRP SDR radios, Callum M0MCX talked about vertical antennas, Bill G4ERV about battery technology and John G8SEQ about omnidirectional antennas.

Anthony K8ZT gave a live demonstration of FT8 and FT4 while Nick M0NTV described his homebrew ‘rig in a bread bin’. Les G0NMD described his inexpensive shack on a pole and Alan W2AEW talked about vector network analysers. All in all, a great success. U3A AND AMATEUR RADIO: Mike Meadows G4GUG is involved with U3A (University of the Third Age) as well as being an active radio amateur. He has been promoting the hobby through the U3A magazine and invites other radio amateurs involved with U3A to contact Janine Aldridge on janine.aldridge@u3a.org.uk or Mike himself at g4gug161@gmail.com