Just to remind you, the Railways on the Air will take place this weekend 23/24 September. Hope to see you there.
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Tuesday 30th Meeting
On Tuesday 30th May we will be holding our weekly meeting in the car park area of Win Green.
We will be there for our normal meeting hours 19:30 to 21:30 but you may go there earlier or stay later. weather is forecasted as warm with almost full moon.
Bring your radio equipment, VHF and/or HF or whatever to spend some time ‘on air’ from the Win Green location.
It will be a test run for the Air Ambulance week 4th to 10th September 2023.
Club meetings December
The meeting on Tuesday 13th December will be a ‘bring and share’ Christmas party. Partners are welcome.
There will not be a quiz this year.
Meeting Tuesday 27th December is cancelled as it will be a holiday.
Note Thursday 29th December there is a Christmas Radio Rally at West Carmel. It is an extra rally, loosely connected to the Yeovil club. Info under ‘Calendar’.
Note! I have disabled the member section as we have been plagued with bots. Will set it up so there is an anti-robot log-n system.
Enjoy Christmas.
Meeting 22 March
The meeting on 22 March will include a Zoom meeting with Geoff G3WZP, the subject The Royal Signals Museum, GB100RSM and The Outreach Amateur Radio Trailer. (see Radcom Dec 2021). it will commence at 20:20 in the main hall at the club using their drop down screen and overhead video projector.
Those not attending can participate from their home qth.
Confirmation and log-in details will follow when confirmed.
Sparkford Rally
The event has been Cancelled
Club over Christmas
Our 28th Dec being during Christmas week and the fact a number of members have indicated they will be away over the period plus unknown restrictions possible from ‘Boris’, we have decided to cancel the meeting for 28th December. Next meeting, subject to Covid rules, will be on January 11th.
There will be a Boxing day net on 2m starting around 11.00.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Bring & Buy
The club is holding a Bring & Buy evening on November 23rd at the club.
Any spare radio items can be offered for sale. Commission 10% to club funds.
Time to clear out items you no longer use, don’t forget to bring some cash – we cannot accept card payment.
BVARS club meetings
BVARS are now holding meetings at the club in the New Remembrance Hall.
The meeting dates can be found under Club News/Club Nights
Please note that annual subscriptions are now due, as it is half a year it will be £15, pay preferably on-line, contact me for details.
Ceramic Air Space Capacitors – Martin Simonsohn
My question is if anyone has any ceramic airspace capacitors 100pf or so I would like them to have a shaft to them as they need knobs to be fitted to them..They are for a paraset project I’m trying to get together
Cheers Martin
NATIONAL MILLS WEEKEND – CANCELLED
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the advice from the UK government is to “avoid large and small gatherings in public spaces”, this includes the National Mills Weekend.
The National Mills Weekend ON THE 9th & 10th May 2020 is CANCELLED for this year
We also encourage mills NOT to open.