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Transcript of Elements 201308
Cockenzie & Port Seton
Amateur Radio Club is
affiliated to the Radio
Society of Great Britain
and holds the call signs
MM0CPS and GM2T which
are used for our special
event and contest entries.
The Club was formed by
Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ in
1984, to help the local
amateurs get to know each
other.
Far from being just a local
club we have members
regularly attending from
the Borders, Dumfries,
Strathclyde, Fife and
Newcastle.
The Club meets on the first
Friday of every month
(Second Friday of January)
in the lounge of the
Thorntree Inn on the old
Cockenzie High Street from
7pm till late.
I am writing this editorial with still a couple of weeks away from the deadline, to be honest I am trying to get on top of all my outstanding issues before the Tiree trip which, by the time you read this will be well and truly over and a part of history. I am also praying that the weather will have been kind to us as well on this trip same as it was for VHF Field Day this year. Ok then, what have we been doing this month? We had our normal club night although it was a week earlier than normal due to the VHF Field Day event, but regarding numbers attending it was very dismal to say the least so I really don’t know what needs to be done to encourage either new blood or get some of the “old” regulators back again. My dream is that everyone will turn up one club night, now that would be something… What have we done since the last newsletter? We have taken part in the RSGB VHF Field Day from the same site we have used for the last four years down near Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway. As we have found, it is a fantastic site and worth the travel. Finally this month is the IOTA contest from TIREE but by the time the newsletter is published it will once again be history. No doubt there will be many
tales to tell. To the future, well the major event is our Junk Night on the 9th August. I am again looking for raffle and food donations so if you can help I really would appreciate it. Let’s hope it is once again a resounding success as it has been in previous years. Also we have Lighthouses Weekend on the 17th & 18th August once again down at Barns Ness so I hope you will all come along and take part and have what is a real fun weekend. This weekend is open to those who are eligible for the VIC GM4GGF Trophy competition so why not pop along and up your QSO count. I am starting my winter training sessions of Foundation, Intermediate and the Advanced Training and kicking off on the 31st August with a Foundation Course. If you know of anyone interested in any of these courses can you now start to get back in touch with me so I can get the Community Centre bookings confirmed? The Club June 20M activity night was reasonably supported although it would have been nice to see more take part. It is only a bit of fun. The night was a bit of a struggle with regard conditions but it was good fun never the less. Enjoy club night, and come along to Junk Night and Lighthouses Weekend. See you all then. Bob GM4UYZ
The Club
The Club is run in a very
informal way, just a group
of like minded people
doing something they
enjoy!
This does not mean that
we don’t do anything, we
enter (and win!) contests,
train newcomers, hold
talks and video nights and
run a popular annual Junk
Sale. Our newsletter has
won the Practical Wireless
‘Spotlight’ competition on
several occasions.
The Club supports the
British Heart Foundation
in memory of a member
who died from heart dis-
ease by donating the
profits from some of the
events we hold, we have
raised over £15,832 since
1994.
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Supported by BT Community
Champions
CLUB SUMMER SOLSTICE ACTIVITY NIGHT
19th June 2013
The club’s activity night took place on the Wednesday evening between 19:00 and 22:00 BST and this year it was opened up to all bands to allow even VHF operators to take part. The aim for club members to get on the air and operate and have a bit of fun, we are radio amateurs you know!!!! There were six of us that were on, which was nice to see although I would have loved to see lots more. The band conditions were very poor indeed and it was quite a struggle but having said that it was a good challenge working what I did. I must admit I have a Digital Voice Keyer (DVK) built into my radio which helped enor-mously as it allowed me to continually call CQ. Thanks to everyone who did come on.
The logs were both all SSB QSO’s
Bob GM4UYZ: My report
Found the three hours hard going but still thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I had a good QSO with an ON station for over 20 minutes. He was recently licensed so was keen to chat about everything. It was nice to offer advice and encouragement to a new operator. Band conditions on 20M a bit up and down with QSB. I tried calling CQ on CW but no takers. Looked at 10M, 15M, 40M and even 80M and nothing heard at all on these bands hence a 20M log.
I am now looking forward to the Winter Sol-stice to see if conditions will be better.
Brian G3UJE: His report
Just saw your note as the activity period was about to start last night so had a play and my log is attached. Hope I've filled it in OK! Hope all is well with you and the boys up there. Busy planning a new 3-El Cubex Quad for here
Bob GM4IKT: His report
Efforts from the activity night. 18 contacts, packed in at 9PM. Best DX was VP5 Turks and Caicos at 6,700km on 15m.
Duncan MM0GZZ: His report
WELL THIS TIME I TRIED 10MTRS PSK31 KIND
OF POOR CONDITIONS BUT STUCK WITH IT ALL GOOD QSO'S BEST BEING BRAZIL I DID LOSE A QSO DUE TO QSB BUT IT WAS 10 MTRS ,ENJOYED THE EVENING EVENT LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE JUST HOPE THE BANDS IMPROVE
Colwyn MM6YCJ: His report
Spent a splendid evening up a small hill be-tween Lauder and Stow. Short walk from the car; barely a mile. 31 QSOs, shortest 23km to Kelso on 2m and furthest 6038km in USA on 20m.
Also Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Ukraine, Austria, Slovenia, Romania, Switzerland, Ire-land, Wales and England.
Had enough battery power to work for the full 3 hours and entered the data directly onto laptop for the first time.
Antennae were a 3 element yagi for the single 2m contact and two resonant inverted V di-poles; one on 40m (20 QSOs) and the other on 20m (10 QSOs).
QRP on 5 watts for all QSOs.
Sun was shining, Curlews & peewits calling on the walk in. Breeze died as the sun went down so didn’t get cold and midges appeared as I was packing up. Doesn’t come much better than that.
Bit knackered this morning though!
Ron GM0NTL: His report
This time of night is no good for real DX on my new digi mode JT9-1. Over the last week I wkd California then Western Australia x2 and Tasmania , both wkd Long Path , with Japan plus loads of US states. All wkd using only 2 watts around breakfast time. So I decided to call it a night after being active for 1 hour with only European stations to work which is no longer my cup of tea,
For any future events, can I suggest that we
can work any 3 hours that suits the partici-
pants or the propagation that we prefer. Set-
ting it as an evening activity could prove to be
restrictive to even more people than myself.
At least I made the effort :-).
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Overall 110 QSO’s were made by those taking part. They were made on various bands and modes.
The results are as follows:
That’s it then so our next one will be our Winter Solstice in December so hopefully many of you will take part in the event. As said previous it is a bit of fun, getting on the air and doing a bit of operating
Bob GM4UYZ
OPS Callsign QSO’s Distance
Total QSO’s
1 MM0YCJ/P 31 32419
2 G3UJE 23 110711
3 MM0GZZ 20 37471
4 GM4IKT 18 43585
5 GM4UYZ 16 19137
6 GM0NTL 2 9586
QSO/Band Band Used Mode
20 40M SSB
12 40M Data Modes
32 20M SSB
20 20M Data Modes
1 15M SSB
23 15M CW
1 10M SSB
1 2M FM
20th ANNUAL
MINI RALLY/JUNK NIGHT FRIDAY 9th AUGUST 2013
Bring along your own “junk” and sell it yourself.
Tables on a First Come, First Served Basis
Time: 1800 till 2100
(Note change to accommodate Community Centre new times)
Location: Cockenzie & Port Seton Community Centre (Main Hall)
Disabled access available
Entry: £2 ALL PERSONS
Raffle @ 21:00, Food & Drink Available
If any one would like to donate any prizes for the raffle or food towards
the catering it will be more than appreciated.
Club Attire
The club has a design for
Club Tee-shirts, Polo-
shirts, Sweat-Shirts,
Fleeces and Jackets and all
of these can be obtained
from the address below.
When making an order
please quote ‘Cockenzie &
Port Seton Amateur Radio
Club’ as this will ensure
that the Club Logo will be
placed on the required
ordered garments.
If you wish to add your call
-sign to the logo then
please ask at the time of
the order.
Cost will depend on
garment and should cover
the garment and logo, call-
sign addition will be extra.
Order from:
PATRICIA BEWSEY DESIGNS,
UNIT 11,
FENTON BARNS RETAIL
VILLAGE,
FENTON BARNS,
NORTH BERWICK,
EAST LOTHIAN
EH39 5BW
Tel/Fax: 01620 850788
Mobile: 07970 920431
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VHF FIELD DAY REPORT
This year’s VHF Field Day was over the week-
end of the 6th and 7th of July starting at
14:00 UST on Saturday the 6th until 14:00 UST
on Sunday the 7th and as has been normal for
a good number of years now we leave on the
Friday to travel to our site to the south of Cas-
tle Douglas to start the “build” of our contest
station. We left at 12:00 and made our way
down the A701 to Moffat where we met up
with Geoff MM5AHO. The team was still three
down Colin GM0RLZ and Ian GM0OQV and
Gordon MM0GPZ who due to work commit-
ments could not join us until later. Ian and
Gordon arrived in the evening after getting
lost!!!! No comments… Lastly Colin arrived on
the Saturday.
On arriving at the site we were in located at
our normal position where the van was sited
and the build of the 6M, 2M and 70cms aerial
systems started with the 70cms successfully
built on a mast, the towers for 6M and 2M
located and the antennas were built. The
tent, thanks to Stewart 2M0SMN and the
Scout Group he runs for the use of their tent,
was set-up for the rest and food area. Once
set up tea/supper was cooked by Geoff and
the build of the station came to an abrupt
stop and we all “laid” back and had a real en-
joyable relaxing evening.
On the Saturday after a hearty breakfast the
station build restarted and completed. Issues
we ended up with were with the 70cms pre-
amp. A sticky relay when dropping from trans-
mit to receive but worst case it didn’t work on
receive so was removed. Testing time came so
it was time for “Genevieve” our generator to
be brought into action and glad to say it run
faultlessly this year.
How did we fair on each band with regard to
the contest….
Weather conditions for the event was fantas-
tic, I just wish we could guarantee that every
year… Radio conditions were good on 2M and
70cms with troposphere propagation. 4M and
6M was nothing to shout about with no real
significant long distant QSO’s. We managed to
contact Spain on 2M and the French Pyrenees
on 70cms so thrilled to bits with that. We
heard a few others with better serial numbers
than ours. At one point per kilometer we have
some advantage, and this year perhaps a
weather advantage too.
(Continued on page 5)
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If you are interested then there are many pictures on the
Club’s website www.cpsarc.com of this year’s event so thanks
for all those who sent them in. It makes a great reminder of a
great weekend, albeit also a challenging one. After any contest
we can see where we need to make improvements so these
are in the plans for next year so hopefully we will achieve
them.
HOW DID WE END – QSO and Points..... Well read the further
article in the newsletter on this....
Apart from the trials and tribulations of
getting the station on the air we had
good and reasonable band conditions as
mentioned before but most of all we
had a great weekend. What really was
apparent is how well we work as a team.
A fantastic credit to everyone and some-
thing we should all be proud off.
That’s it then the end of another ven-
ture so looking forward to our next…
Bob GM4UYZ
(Continued from page 4)
Thanks to the sterling
work by M0RNR, our club
has been added to the
excellent Clublog system
developed by Michael
Wells G7VJR.
www.clublog.org
The system allows
members to upload their
logs in ADIF format and
have them displayed in a
table with all the other
club members.
Clublog also has great
facilities for tracking your
DXCC status etc so is well
worth taking the time to
register and get your log
uploaded.
To update your log with
the next set of contacts
(SSB, CW or Data) you can
simply upload your whole
log again and the system
will take care of the
duplicates. Alternatively
you can export the bits
you want from your own
log and just upload that.
The tables we’ll publish
here will be the club,
filtered by the current
year, so everyone starts a
new year at 0 contacts.
Due to several amateurs
across the world
accidentally adding
themselves to the CPSARC
tables, we now approve
all additions which might
take a day or two.
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This month I shall again look at a different ele-
ment of what people enjoy about our hobby of
amateur radio. Previous months I have looked
at friendships from HAM radio and also using
HAM radio in emergency situations. This
month I shall look at HAM radio as a sport.
When you think of sport it’s perhaps the ten-
nis at Wimbledon, Olympic athletics, football
or rugby that would spring to mind. But even
our hobby of radio has a sporting element.
It may not have yet been allowed, or ever will,
into the Olympics. It’s possibly not the most
exciting sport to watch and unlikely to be cov-
ered by Sky Sports, although many do listen.
Amateur radio contesting has the advantage
that you do not have to travel far as you can
compete from your home. You do not have to
be picked for your team or country as anyone
can enter and you can compete and even win
your country category.
Radio contesting, or Radiosport, has been on
the go since the 1920s. It really grew out of
the competitive nature of our hobby, and usu-
ally means trying to contact as many other
stations, in as many countries as possible, in a
certain amount of allocated time and logging
those contacts.
The first organised radio contest seems to
have been in 1928 and was called the Interna-
tional Relay Party, this then became known
as the ARRL International DX Contest, and still
runs strongly today, with the Morse contest in
February and the phone contest in March,
both of which run over a 48 hour period.
Therefore stamina is needed to get a good
score, so stock up on caffeine and potentially
win a certificate recognising you as best in
category in your country.
You do not have to compete as an individual,
you can be part of a team and be a multi-
operator entry, you can even enter a category
for more than one transmitter, our own club
has been successful as a multi-operator, two
transmitter competing station. The special
Callsign of GM2T is used for that. Nice and
short Callsign so you can rattle it off quickly
and increase your rate of QSOs/hour.
GM2T has a great sporting record. In the Is-
lands On The Air (IOTA) contest in 2010, work-
ing from the Island of Tiree, it actually
achieved 3rd place overall in the World and
always makes a big effort with the CQ World
Wide (CQWW) contest in the autumn, where
GM2T often wins its category for Scotland.
GM2T is always keen to encourage new partic-
ipants, so if you haven’t tried Radiosport and
would like to do so, then contact the club and
they’d be delighted to get you involved.
Field day contests are also popular, the first
one organised was in 1930. Basically a field
day contest means you have to work portable,
out in the field. This is always a challenge to (Continued on page 7)
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find a good site, set up a portable antenna and radio and work
away to your heart’s content. Major challenges are often the
weather, those pesky midges and the odd stray cow which
thinks your mast and beam make a great scratching post.
Not only can a contest, when you are a team, be a great social
event, but it’s also a fantastic way of improving your radio
techniques, gives you a great understanding of propagation,
due to stations becoming active all over the world, in places
that are normally void of any HAM radio activity and this leads
to an increase in the amount of countries that you contact for
your countries worked list.
Operators also use the contests as an excuse to travel, Italian
friends of mine pop over to African Italy on Pantelleria Island
to work IH9P in the CQWW contest, they have the advantage
of still being close to Europe for good propagation, but be-
cause Pantelleria is officially Africa, every contact with Europe
counts as 3 points instead of 1 point for working someone on
the same continent as you. Similarly in USA operators hop
over to some of the Caribbean Islands to do the same.
Radiosport can also include direction finding and fox hunting,
where someone hides and gives out intermittent signals, and
whoever finds them first wins. It can include VHF contests
where you have to contact operators and exchange maiden-
head locator numbers, or as per the examples before a HF
contest to work as many countries, on as many bands as you
can. Followed by emailing your logbook into the organising
society and waiting for that winning certificate in the post.
So go online, check when there are radio contests on, turn on
your radio and fire off 100 plus QSOs per hour to see if you can
become a leader in your sport, but most of all enjoy the chal-
lenge of operating your radio in a competitive environment.
73
Jim Hume
MM0DXH/GM2Y
PS You can find contest dates listed on these websites -
http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ http://www.rsgbcc.org/
(Continued from page 6)
I have just erected a vertical antenna for 2, 6 and 70 it must
have been an omen as on the 16th of July I worked my first 6m
QSO with OE6KDG he gave me 57 and he was 59, well the
(magic band) as it is named has gone from strength to
strength all great QSOs from Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgar-
ia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Estonia and Denmark so 61 QSOs
from 20 DXCC at the moment running 50watts from a Yaesu
857d can’t be too bad, yes there is a lot of QSB and the overs
are sometimes a bit quick but so is the band openings.
Well I am thinking about a beam now to see how far I can real-
ly get. I did hear one station in the USA but he had a huge pile
up so this is where the beam I think would be a help or is this
just a rare occasion and never hear 6mtrs again me thinks.
Other bands have been quiet round my way but I have worked
China twice this month also VP2EAF on 20m, Brazil on 10m
and 40m, and much the same on 15m,
Well we will see what August brings,
Happy DXing
best 73s
MM0GZZ DUNCAN
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VHF FIELD DAY 2013 – MM0CPS/P from IO84BT
Well that is another VHF Field Day over and I must admit it for
me comes in as one of the best that I have been involved in. I
have been taking part them since 1993 which I cannot believe
is 20 years ago, oh how time flies. The company was fantastic
with great team work and lots of fun and laughs to go along
with it. We had a couple of technical hitches which considering
the amount of equipment is really not bad going, having said
that prefer none!! It certainly helps leaving home on the Friday
dinnertime to arrive onsite around about 15:00 and starting
the building of the site. This year the concentration was on
getting all the antennas built for all the bands on the Friday
evening which we achieved before we settled down to having
a “beer or two”. The Saturday morning the concentration was
on getting the shack up and operational, again it came togeth-
er with ease. On the Sunday we had to drop the 6M tower and
install the 4M beam then in the shack remove the 6M station
and build the 4M station and again no problems.
If you are interested then there are many pictures on the
Club’s website www.cpsarc.com of this year’s event so thanks
for all those who sent them in. It makes a great reminder of a
great weekend, albeit also a challenging one.
For the technically minded this is what we put on each station:
6M:
Transmitter IC756 Pro III + Acom1000 Linear
Power 400W
Receiver IC756 Pro III
Antennas 8 Element G0KSC Yagi
4M:
Transmitter FT847 + Linear Amp 4M Amplifier
Power 160W
Receiver FT847
Antenna 8 Element G0KSC Yagi
2M:
Transmitter Yaesu FT847+LinearAmp2M Amplifier
Power 400W
Receiver Yaesu FT847 +Landweher Gasfet Preamplifier
Antennas 8 x 7 Element DK7ZB Yagi's
70cms:
Transmitter Kenwood TS2000 + Discovery 70cms Amplifier
Power 400W
Receiver Kenwood TS2000
Antenna 2 x 23 Element DK7ZB Yagi's
So how did we do? Well the following are the square maps
worked for each of the bands and finally what score was sub-
mitted for the contest. I must admit it looks really impressive
this year. Well done everyone involved.
6M Squares Worked
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4M Squares Worked
2M Squares Worked
70cms Squares Worked
Score submitted…
Contest : RSGB VHF Field Day
Callsign : MM0CPS/P
Mode : MIXED
Category : Multi Operator - Multi Transmitter (MM)
Band(s) : All bands (AB)
Class : High Power (HP)
Locator : IO84BT
Operating time : 15h57
BAND QSO DUP LOC POINTS AVG PTS AVG DIS
--------------------------------------------
50 195 2 34 58756 301.3 303.6
70 89 0 21 25684 288.6 288.6
144 346 9 61 130545 377.3 386.5
432 96 2 30 33139 345.2 351.3
--------------------------------------------
TOTAL 726 13 146 248124 341.8 347.6
============================================
TOTAL SCORE : 248 124
Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations
Operators : GM4UYZ MM0CCC MM0DXC MM0GZA
MM0GPZ MM0VTV MM5AHO GM0OQV MM0INS GM0RLZ
BEST DX, LOCATOR and DISTANCE
50MHZ ON4IQ JO20AR 700Kms
70MHZ PA2M JO21IP 671Kms
144MHZ EA1AAE IN81SS 1454Kms
432MHz F5ICN JN03BF 131Kms
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I think Geoff MM5AHO summed up our weekend quite nicely
by saying:
Thanks to all who attended for a great weekend.
Good weather (a real plus)
Good Troposphere conditions (even better!)
Good company (without which no fun)
Good kit (which performed)
Good site (as ever)
Good contacts (even a lost Frenchman somewhere off the
coast of Portugal?)
Thanks too, to readers here who called us and contributed
points.
How we have fared over the years since we starting going to
IO84BT?
In 2010 we had to abandon the contest on the Sunday morn-
ing due to adverse weather conditions.
All QSO’s shown were what was submitted before adjudica-
tion.
Red Boxes show the most ever QSO’s made for that Band and
on what year.
That’s it then the end of another venture so looking forward to
our next…
Bob GM4UYZ
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1. Which waveform in the diagram shows the audio sig-
nal?
a. Waveform 1.
b. Waveform 2.
c. Waveform 3.
d. None of them
2. Which stage of the transmitter ensures the radio sig-
nal is of suitable power level to be transmitted?
a. Modulator.
b. RF power amplifier.
c. Oscillator.
d. Audio amplifier
3. The most likely place to find a tuning control in the
block diagram of a radio receiver shown, is in
a. Block 1
b. Block 2
c. Block 3
d. Block 4
4. Which plug, in the drawing, should be used to connect
coaxial feeder to the transmitter output?
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
5. Which one of the following antennas has radials?
a. Dipole.
b. End fed.
c. Ground plane.
d. Yagi
6. A dummy load will
a. radiate equally in all directions
b. only radiate in one direction
c. increase the e.r.p of an antenna
d. not radiate very much at all
7. The reason radio waves get weaker further from the
transmitting antenna is that
a. the extra distance travelled absorbs energy from the
wave
b. they spread out over a larger area
c. most of the signal has been picked up by other aerials
d. the ionosphere reflects the signals away from the re-
ceiver
8. The main mode of propagation for long distance con-
tacts (DX) on the h.f. bands is by
a. ionospheric reflection
b. ground wave
c. meteor scatter
d. direct wave
9. Electro Magnetic compatibility is
a. having all your equipment made by the same company
b. the avoidance of interference between various equip-
ments
c. the cause of television interference (TVI)
d. the result of using too much power
10. Which mode of transmission is the WORST for causing
EMC problems?
a. SSB
b. Data modes
c. FM
d. CW
Back in 2009, we ran a challenge as part of our 25 Years Club Anniversary. As part of this challenge, The “Left Handed Capacitor” Trophy in memory of Vic GM4GGF was awarded to the winner of the Foundation Licence holder with the "most Distant QSO". Martyn MM0XXW, then MM3XXW won this.
Another challenge where the trophy could be once more presented, but this time on an annual basis was created in 2011. Cambell MM0DXC proposed we present it to the person who has been licensed for up to one year, and makes the greatest number of QSO’s during our Special Event Stations. The aim is to encourage newer operators to “operate” and help overcome any microphone hesitancy.
Criteria:
Those taking part must have obtained their Foundation Licence within the previous year, even though at the time of taking part may have obtained their Intermediate or even Advanced Licence.
The year will run from the 1st May through to the 30th April. This covers the club’s September to April training program
Entrants must be able to identify that they obtained their Foundation Licence at some time during the stipulated year dates.
Entrants need not have been trained by the Club for all of the three licences but must have at least obtained one of them via the Club’s training program.
Entrants must operate at the Special Events run by the club over the specific year period. Normal events that the club participates in each year are the Port Seton Gala Day (MM0CPS), Museum of Flight (GB2MOF), Lighthouse Weekend (GB2LBN) and also the Club’s Activity Night. There may be others depending on requests and these will also be included.
Win-Test Logging software will be used to create our log of an event.
Each operator before starting to operate will use the OPON command and enter his call sign.
Each operator on completing their operating period will use the OPOFF command.
All contacts made during that period by the operator will now be logged.
After an event the log will be checked and the number of QSO’s made by each operator will be counted and recorded.
After the completion of the year period each operator’s totals for each event will be totalled and the operator with the most QSO’s will be deemed the winner.
The trophy will then be presented to the winner who can retain it for a year before returning it to the club.
YEAR ONE – 2011
2011 was the first year that the above was used to encourage “new blood” into taking part in the Special Events run in the Club’s Event’s Program. There were a possible 17 people who were eligible to take part but only 3 did. The winner of the Trophy is Paul Rice MM0VPR/2M0CEX/MM6ANB who made a total of 598 QSO’s during the year. Congratulations Paul on winning the trophy for the year, you have now set the standard.
YEAR TWO – 2012
2012 was the second year of running the above where there were 10 people eligible. The overall winner of the trophy this year was Cephas MM0INS/2M0INS/MM6INS. The presentation took place in the Thorntree Inn in early July. Congratulations Cephas in winning the award..
YEAR THREE – 2013
2013 is now underway with all the possible 13 entrants having been notified by email.
Good luck to you all...
Bob GM4UYZ
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“THE LEFT HANDED CAPACITOR TROPHY”
How to win it
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Cephas MM0INS being presented with the Left Handed Capacitor Trophy for 2012
The GM2T Antenna Farm on Tiree
General correspondence,
training and contest
entries
Bob Glasgow 7 Castle Terrace Port Seton East Lothian EH32 0EE Phone: 01875 811723
E-mail:
For events listed below,
please use these contacts
HF Contests
Cambell Stevenson
VHF Contests
John MacLean
Club Tables
Bob Purves
Contest Reports
Robin Farrer
Newsletter, website,
event calendar
John Innes
www.cpsarc.com has
forums everyone can use
for technical discussion or
for sale items
2 August 2013 Club Night
9 August 2013 Annual Mini Rally / Junk sale
11 August 2013 Perseids Meteor Shower
17/18 August 2013 Lighthouses Weekend GB2LBN
31 August 2013 Newsletter deadline
31 August 2013 Foundation Course part 1
6 September 2013 Club Night
7 September 2013 Foundation Course part 2
21 September 2013 Intermediate Course
27 September 2013 DF Hunt
28 September 2013 Intermediate Course
28 September 2013 Newsletter Deadline
4 October 2013 Club Night
5 October 2013 Intermediate Course
12 October 2013 Intermediate Course
18 October 2013 Video Night
19 October 2013 Intermediate Course
26/27 October 2013 CQWW SSB Contest
1 November 2013 Club Night
2 November 2013 2nd Foundation Course part 1
9 November 2013 2nd Foundation Course part 2
23 November 2013 Intermediate Course 2
30 November 2013 Intermediate Course 2
6 December 2013 Club Night
7 December 2013 Intermediate Course 2
Answers from August 2013 newsletter “Test Your Knowledge”.
1A, 2B, 3A, 4A, 5C, 6D, 7B, 8A, 9B, 10A
Rank Callsign 160 80 60 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 6 4 2 70 23 13 DXCC Slots Range
1 MM0DXH 0 23 0 57 8 110 4 86 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 314 10 yrs
2 GM4IKT 0 0 0 0 0 81 3 57 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 123 152 9 yrs
3 MM0GZZ 0 3 0 55 56 82 0 21 10 37 22 0 3 0 0 0 111 289 3 yrs
4 M0RNR 0 0 0 34 0 54 0 40 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 79 131 14 yrs
5 GB2VEF 0 0 0 19 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 78 0 yrs
6 GM2Y 0 20 0 33 0 46 0 20 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 55 120 3 yrs
7 MM0XXW 0 1 0 17 8 32 12 20 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 49 92 7 yrs
8 GM4UYZ 0 3 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 34 33 yrs