Carmarthen ARS

New club event : This Sunday the 5th of July, the club will be transmitting from Mynydd Llanllwni mountain in Carmarthen on HF for fun, to see just how far a QTH we can get too. Hopefully starting around 10am local time to around 4pm. All contacts are welcome and we do have a club QSL card to send to any contact made.

QRP Contest Event Report: On Sunday the 14th June 2009, a mostly warm sunny day, the club took part in the Practical Wireless QRP contest with the callsign GW4YCT at a QTH location of Mynydd Llanllwni mountain, QRA locator = IO72WA. The location is the hills and mountains behind the town of Carmarthen. We where at an altitude of around 1,300 feet asl. The club’s progress last year came 64th out 92 entries with 209 points. We had made 19 confirmed QSO’s and worked 11 squares. The club also came top in the IO72 square. In this years QRP contest, the propagation did not allow us to reach France as last year, but contacts with Eire and North Wales where made. The QSO’s we made this year where 19 contacts over 9 squares. We thank you for the points.

Website’s of club members are linked on the members page.

GB2RS News link is on the menu.

Annual General Meeting pre-report : The Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society’s annual general meeting was held on Tuesday the 19th of May 2009. Any person who has an interest or a casually interest within the club and wish to become club members, you may if wish to, indicate your interest via an email on the “contact us page”. A membership fee of £15.00 for the 2009/2010 session may be paid at the club’s AGM, or either by post would be OK. Please make any cheque out too “Carmarthen Amateur Radio Society”.

Many Thanks, Alastair GW0AJU, Treasurer.

Swansea Radio Club “GW4CC” 10m Net “28.530MHz, every Sunday 11am.”

“ARRL DX & ARRL Propagation” News update : 5/June/2009.

MB7IWW and GB3CM Repeater gateway access.

MB7IWW : VHF Internet Linked Repeater

A new 2M Gateway has been set up in Penboyr, West Wales. The Gateway MB7IWW should offer coverage out towards Cardigan and elevated parts of North Wales.

The MB7xxx range of callsigns in the UK denotes unattended operation, the Gateway

operated in Penboyr is MB7IWW-L which is currently connected to Echo-link, node number 5896.

To use the link is very straight forward, simply tune you Radio to 145.2375 MHz, add

a 94.8Hz “CTCSS” tone and you are ready to go.

The system gives an audio ident every three minutes so if you can hear that there is a very good chance that the system can hear you along with everyone else connected to the system.

DTMF functions are available as shown below.

Node Status

By pressing 08 will ask the Node to play a status message.

Direct Connect

Enter the Node ID number of the station you want to connect to e.g. 5896

Worldwide Random Node

By pressing 00 the system will connect you to any available Node anywhere in the world.

UK Random Link

By pressing 011 the system will connect you to any available UK Link.

Random Conference

By pressing 012 the system will connect you to any available English speaking conference.

Disconnect

Press # to disconnect.

Test Server

Press 9999 to record and plays back your audio so you can set levels correctly

GB3CM: UHF Internet Linked Repeater

The Internet linking facility is provided and maintained by Andy GW6JSO

Brief Overview

70cm (FM) UHF Repeater
Map Reference: SN47462728
94.8Hz CTCSS tone and the 'time out' is set to three and a half minutes
Operating on an output frequency of 433.200Mhz, and on an input of 434.800Mhz.
Echolink Node 1509 (updated 03/08)
Repeater keeper Andy GW6JSO

Further news

8th June 2008 - The club took part in the Practical Wireless 2m QRP Contest. The shack was set up on Mynydd Llanllwni and according to the GPS system the site was at 1284 feet ASL. Using a four element 2m yagi we made 25 contacts in total. A number of contacts were made to Ireland, Cornwall and France. The conditions were excellent and there did seem to be a lift on with many contacts coming in at 59+. The weather was very warm and sunny and a good time was had by all.

(Click on the "QRP 2m Contest" link opposite for some photographs)

Update to the above:

The PW 2m contest results are now available and are as follows

Out of 92 entries our club came 64th with 209 points. The CARS club made 19 QSOs confirmed and worked 11 squares. The club came top in the IO72 square.

The RSGB have recently issued a downloadable PDF file called "Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur" Edition 2, July 2008.

This is well worth downloading and if you click here you will be able to obtain the file.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday the 7th of July. A continuation of the Morse Key Oscillator board.

On the 23rd of July, there will be a continuation of lectures to the club for the benefit of news members sitting their RAE exam stages.

The meeting may also continue with the building by members and any visitors of a “Morse Tone Oscillator” with a helpful guided instruction for their individual use.

Every first Tuesday of each month is a normal club night and on air evening or an open forum. Come for a general chat and/or to solve problems you may have with your amateur radio station.

Every third Tuesday of each month is an evening generally devoted to talks or demonstrations by club members.

Unless otherwise stated.

Check back often to see any changes to scheduled events or to changes and additions to this web site.

Times: 7.00 to 7.30pm until approx 9.00pm