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(22/8/05): Aung Kyaw Moe MM3OEI/2M0AKM (all that I have been told about so far) Congratulations go out to them all. September was very quiet with only one activity taking place and that was our DF Night. We will also have taken part in our second DF hunt night of the year, which I am sure again it will have thrown up a few topics of conversation. To this coming month as always consult the Events Diary but a reminder that our video night is on Friday 21st so I hope you will all make an effort to attend. On the contesting front there is a great demand for operators to take part in the HF Con-test CQWW, which runs for 48 hours over the weekend of the 39/30th October. The CQWW contest is being run from Barns Ness so why not come along and either take part or support those who are operating, believe you me seeing a few people turn up and giving support really helps. If you can spare some time to operate please let Cambell know so he can arrange some sort of operat-ing rota. To the future I must say that the Christmas Night Out, as I write this, has not been finalised as yet, but from the minimal of replies that have

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knowing, sadly in a way, it might even save my own life. I make no apologies for the “sometimes” push to raise a £1 here or a £1 there as at the end of the day it is all for our own and families benefit. I do feel sad though that one or two within the club do make the comment that the BHF gets too much, I know it is their opinion of which they are entitled, but it has been a major factor about us as a club since the death of Bunny that we as part of our hobby try to help others. We chose the BHF due to how Bunny died and it was decided then that we would adopt them as our Charity. It would be great to have lots of club equipment and raise money to achieve this but in my opinion it should not affect what we started out to do and what we are known for, for all these years. Again in my opinion a small donation to help save someone’s life is far more important that apiece of equipment. Results from the exams that have been sat in August and September are as follows: Foundation Exam Passes (3/9/05): Daniel Woods, Stuart Corstorphine, Tom McCall, Stephen Burns and Mike McConnell Intermediate Exam Passes (15/8/05): Gordon Paterson MM3JHZ now 2M0GPZ Advanced Exam Passes

This editorial I am writing very early in the month of September due to going on my “late” summer holi-days, sadly when you all are reading this then they will be all over and it will be back to normal as they say. I also just cannot believe that we are now into the last quarter of the year and that the dark nights are well and truly here so it is once again time to sit back and reflect what you have done over the summer months. The jobs that you did and more than likely you will remember the ones that you didn’t. I my-self had intended to do more operating from home but many factors have not al-lowed me to do so. Tonight we will be or will have, depending when you arrived, have carried out our official presentation to the British Heart Foundation so once again many thanks to you all for all your help in raising this years sum of £845 I know that Iain Lowis, Heather Gregory and every-one involved at the BHF greatly appreciates the money. I also think that we should all take great credit to what we have managed to achieve since we adopted the British Heart Foundation. The total raised, £11,237, since 1993 is not to be sneezed at. I know I cer-tainly feel proud of my con-tribution towards this sum

Editorial

Inside this issue:

RSGB IOTA Contest 2

Contest Calendar 5

Where have they all come from?

6

Lighthouses Weekend 7

Test your knowledge 9

Christmas Night Out 10

Events Column 11

Special points of interest:

• Photos and Report from Tiree

• Crossword puzzle solu-tion

• Christmas Night Out

October 2005

Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club

Volume 13, Issue 10

Club Newsletter

CPSARC once again headed to the Island of Tiree (EU-008) to take part in the RSGB Islands on the Air (IOTA) Contest which ran from 30-31 July 2005. This contest is one of the highlights of the year, an opportunity to run a busy station during this popular contest, from a location where we are made extremely wel-come. The team this year consists of, Cambell MM0DXC, John MM0JXI, Iain MM1CPP, Brian M0RNR, Bob GM4UYZ, Alan 2M0DXC, Landles GM4XZZ, Norman GM4IUS, Innes GM4VJV, Willie MM0WZZ, Gareth M3INO and Gordon MM3JHZ. Three of the team (Willie, Gareth and Gordon) were IOTA newcomers and they were especially looking for-ward to seeing the tales we’ve been regaling them with for the past 6 months or so come to life. The ‘old hands’ were looking forward to meeting up with old friends and re-newing our acquaintance with the magical island of Tiree. Jim GM7LUN was also plan-ning to come with us but at the last minute he was unable to get the time off from his work. In line with the policy we’ve adopted ever since we started going to Tiree, each of the

Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ

come in so far it is looking like being a Meal this year. The prominent meal being asked for is Chinese. I will be send-ing out an email when all the replies are in (asked for by the 30th September) and I have had to chance to collate them. Lastly, this month I am once

again looking for your input as I am now starting to look at putting next years monthly calendar together, so what you would you like to see done. I would appreciate a quick re-sponse, as I would like to get it completed quickly so that I can submit it to the radio magazines. Thanks for your help.

Enjoy the newsletter and see you all on video night and the HF Contests. Bob GM4UYZ

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RSGB IOTA Contest 2005—GM2T

Our annual trip to the Inner Hebrides yields great weather and a

fantastic weekend of radio

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team members paid £125 to go on the trip, this covers all the transport costs (which are pretty high by the time you add up the cost of two vans, two towers and 12 team members on the ferry, then add fuel costs). The amount paid also allows the contest group to purchase additional equipment for use by the club during its contests and spe-cial events, this year we bought some single band bandpass filters direct from Dunestar in the States and an new Yaesu G-1000 SDX rotator from GM1RCP’s Wireless Emporium. The group also funded the build-ing of a new towable 60’ tower parts of which were bought at a knock down price by the ever enterprising MM0DXC who spotted it on one of his trips then set about

refurbishing it with new winches and ropes and adding outrigger feet and running gear to make an excellent addition to our contesting arsenal. The 1500lb winches we bought are excellent, they really make short work of erecting the tower. We or-dered three from our supplier, two for the tower and one for MM0CCC, since we came back other members of the team wanted another two,


Loading the towers in a damp Tranent

Willie MM0WZZ

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tea room and scattered sleep-ing bags across the house in an attempt to house 12 guys (Elaine’s mother Irene even gave up her bedroom to give us more sleeping room). With all the stations set up and working, some of the team got on the air to try things out and of course let everyone we worked know we’d be operating in the IOTA contest tomorrow. Once we had eaten dinner we all set out for the pub which is a 10 minute walk from Elaine’s house. We returned much (much) later after an excellent night of Tiree hospitality, several of the team had retired early but they had a rude awakening when the very tipsy remains of the team staggered back through the sleeping quarters at dark o’clock. Saturday morning loomed into view, still fine and dry, the various members of the team staggered from their beds and hangovers and for-tified by another full Tiree breakfast we made the final preparations for the contest, only to find that one of the voice keyers didn’t work properly, a period of poking about with a meter showed that Bob can’t count! Once the wires were reconnected in the right place, everything was fine. The station description is pretty much as before, the setup we use consists of FT1000MP’s, Alpha amplifi-ers, Dunestar filters, GM4UYZ’s homebrew voice keyer and band decoder units, MFJ voice keyers and our custom built headset interface boxes. Bob has everything packed into plas-tic bags which makes it eas-ier to set up a complex sta-tion.


good stuff indeed! The vans and trailers were loaded up with all the equip-ment and aerials on the Thursday afternoon, most of the team assembled at Cam-bell’s home in Tranent in time for setting out around midnight, we intended to meet up later with Gordon who was coming over from Blantyre. However – we had barely got under way when suddenly the vans pulled over, Iain’s van had devel-oped a problem with one of the wheels. We all had vi-sions of the problems we had last year when a wheel fell of one of the towers on the way to Oban, however the ever resourceful Iain made a call to his brother and a cou-ple of spare wheels were rustled up in double quick time (no mean feat at mid-night!) once the new wheel was fitted, we were off again. The rest of the trip went without incident and we arrived at Oban in plenty time for the ferry. Once on the ferry we tucked in to a hearty breakfast be-fore camping outside the bar waiting for it to open at 9am! We arrived at Tiree at 10.30am, and were met at the quayside by Malcolm and a little later by our host Elaine. Its typical of the re-laxed attitude on the island that we were met by a com-plete stranger and promptly jumped into his car for the trip to Elaine’s. Once we had arrived we


started setting up the station, as in previous years we di-vided into two teams (indoor and outdoor) to get on with all the tasks, building aerials, erecting towers, setting up the radios and the network etc. This year the weather was fine and dry which made life for the outdoor team much easier. However when the indoor team came to power up the network and the radios we were met by our old friend the uncertain earth conditions on the is-land which were causing the RCD for the house to trip. Normally we’ve blamed this on the wet weather but this year it was dry… A quick bit of reorganising later, we connected one station to a different supply and every-thing powered up ok. By this time co-ax’s and rotator cables were appear-ing through windows as the outdoor teams erected their aerials, we got everything connected up and some basic testing done by tea time.

This was something of a record, in previous years we have been struggling with poor weather or equipment faults long into the evening. During this time Elaine had been supplying us with more breakfast, soup for lunch etc so we were being well looked after. Elaine has started a successful tea shop in her new extension but she gladly closes her business and turns the extension over to us for the contest. We had set up the radios in the large

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Gordon and John wrestling with LDF550

Elaine and Wynn

Norman sorting the tower, the hard way

Gareth M3INO

Gordon MM3JHZ


The whole setup is controlled by our computers running NA and its serial network. This gives us rig control, logging and cluster spots. The cluster feed is via the internet fed into another PC dedicated to this task and K1TTT’s wintel-netx program which gathers cluster info from one or more sources and feeds the spots out onto a serial port for the network (and also generates a log file of all the activity for use later). We still rely on a DOS program on a serial net-work because we know it works and how to fix it when it fails. We are considering moving to a Windows / Ethernet environment and making use of logging pro-grams such as Winlog or N1MM but this still requires some development work. So with everything working, we relaxed for a little while before flinging ourselves into the contest. As usual we had divided ourselves into teams and the fastest operators were on at the start (when its really busy). We all made a determined effort to get the most out of all bands this year and spent a lot of time making sure we had a reasonable number of contacts on 80m, 15m and

10m which have never been all that productive for us in recent years. From the log summary Bob published last month (and included again here) you can see we were much more effective on 15m and 10m. However band con-ditions were much better on 20m where we more than doubled our QSO total. All this increased activity has resulted in a huge increase in our claimed final score to 6,334,650 up from 3,629,175 last year. Obviously the con-ditions favour other stations too but we’re very hopeful of improving our position on 2004. Once the contest had ended, we all stared with amazement at the 6 million plus score on the screen, this was more like it! We then set to dismantling the station, packing it all back into the vans for the journey home. Then Elaine sat us all down for a splendid dinner with crab and prawns, piles of roast beef and champagne to celebrate her opening her tea room. Then it was back to the pub for another evening of Tiree hospitality, a pub quiz and loads of drink. The next morning we all enjoyed more filled rolls before saying our farewells and heading back for the ferry home. I’m sure

we all enjoyed our trip to Tiree, the weather was fantas-tic, the hospitality excellent, the contest was great, what more could we want! Thanks once again go to Elaine Williams for putting up with 12 mad radio ama-teurs and looking after us in splendid style, and thanks to the whole team who really pulled together to build and operate the station and find time to relax in the pub too! Until next year… John Innes MM0JXI


Dinner on Sunday

Date Start

(UTC) Dur

Hours Contest Notes & Info

03-Sep-05 14:00 24 144MHz Trophy Contest

04-Sep-05 11:00 4 144MHz Backpackers Contest

01 Oct 05 07:00 12 RSGB 21/28 Mhz Contest SSB

16-Oct-05 07:00 12 RSGB 21 / 28MHz Contest CW

29 Oct 05 00:00 48 CQWW DX SSB Contest

12-Nov-05 20:00 3 RSGB Club Calls Contest

19-Nov-05 21:00 4 RSGB 2nd 1.8MHz Contest

26-Nov-05 00:00 48 CQWW DX CW Contest

General Notes : The club or its members plan/hope to be active in those events shown as bold above.

Full Event Rules Are Available On The Internet As Follows : RSGB HF : http://www.contesting.co.uk/hfcc/calendar.shtml RSGB VHF : http://www.blacksheep.org/vhfcc/index.html ARRL : http://www.arrl.org/contests/ CQ WPX : http://home.woh.rr.com/wpx/ CQWW : http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cqwwhome.html

Links to most of the other events, or their rules, can be found on the SM3CER Contest Web Page Start at http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ and use the appropriate links to find the info you require.

Contest Calendar


Crossword answers from September

Where the trainees come from

Note: Information from all courses up to 3 September 2005. Bob GM4UYZ

Regarding all the training that I have delivered on the respective Amateur Radio Licences i.e. Novice, Foun-dation and Intermediate, the question I keep getting asked by lots of people is the following.

“Where have all the course pupils come from?” To answer the question I thought I would put a table together showing what course they attended, where they came from and how many from that area.

Where have they all come from?


Place Postcode Novice Foundation Intermediate

Alloa FK10 1 Bathgate EH48 1 Berwick TD15 4 2 Blantyre G72 1 1 Burnmouth TD14 1 Burntisland KY3 1 Coatbridge ML5 1 Coldstream TD12 2 1 Cowdenbeath KY4 1 Cumbernauld G68 2 1 Dalkeith EH22 1 Dirleton EH39 1 Dunbar EH42 1 Dunblane FK15 2 East Calder EH53 1 Edinburgh EH4,7,8,10,11,1

4,15,17 3 14 4

Eyemouth TD14 1 1 Galashiels TD1 1 1 Gladsmuir EH33 1 Glasgow G32 1 Greenlaw TD10 1 1 Haddington EH41 1 Hawick TD9 1 Hornecliffe TD15 1 Kilsyth G65 1 1 Linlithgow EH49 1 Longniddry EH32 4 1 Macmerry EH33 1 Mayfield EH22 2 Milnathort KY13 1 Musselburgh EH21 1 1 Newtongrange EH22 1 North Berwick EH39 1 Pathhead EH37 8 2 Peebles EH45 1 Penicuik EH26 1 Perth PH1 1 Port Seton EH32 7 6 1 Prestonpans EH32 2 1 Selkirk TD7 4 1 Tiree PA77 8 Tranent EH33 2 2 Uphall EH52 1 Wallyford EH21 2 1


Lighthouses Weekend

Country 80 40 20 Total Country 80 40 20 Total Argentina 13 13 Italy 30 30 Asiatic Russia 2 2 Japan 4 4 Austria 1 15 16 Jersey 1 1 Azores 1 1 Latvia 1 1 2 Balearic Islands 2 2 Lithuania 2 2 Belarus 1 1 Luxembourg 1 1 Belgium 2 11 11 24 Martinique 1 1 Bermuda 1 1 Mexico 2 2 Brazil 7 7 Moldova 2 2 Bulgaria 4 4 Netherlands 8 27 35 Canada 42 42 Northern Ireland 5 3 8 Canary Islands 1 1 Norway 2 7 1 10 Cayman islands 1 1 Oman 1 1 Ceuta & Melilla 2 2 Panama 2 2 Chile 3 3 Paraguay 1 1 Columbia 1 1 Poland 5 3 15 23 Costa Rica 1 1 Portugal 3 3 Croatia 7 7 Puerto Rico 2 2 Cuba 1 1 Romania 5 5 Czech Republic 8 8 Sardinia 1 1 Denmark 1 3 1 5 Scotland 9 9 6 24 Eire 1 8 9 Slovakia 2 2 England 22 113 13 148 Slovenia 4 4 European Russia 18 18 Spain 1 20 21 Falkland Islands 1 1 Special Event Station 18 1 19 Germany 142 43 10 195 Sweden 6 5 6 17 Finland 2 5 7 Switzerland 8 8 France 6 12 18 Turkey 1 1 Greece 4 4 Ukraine 22 22 Guatemala 1 1 USA 226 226 Guernsey 1 1 2 Venezuela 5 5 Hungary 8 8 Wales 2 9 11 Iceland 1 1 Yugoslavia 1 1 2 Israel 4 4

COUNTRIES and LIGHTHOUSES/LIGHTSHIPS WORKED DURING LIGHTHOUSE WEEKEND. As promised last month that I would produce what we worked as regards to Countries and Lighthouses/Lightships when we were operating as GB2LBN during Lighthouses weekend.. Note we don’t look for Lighthouses/Lightships as we see ourselves as being a contact for other amateurs. See below for the list, which shows some nice ones: The following table shows the actual Lighthouses/Lightships that contacted us. As men-tioned earlier we personally do not go looking for Lighthouses or Lightships as our aim is to provide Barns Ness Lighthouse for all the stations that require the lighthouse for any specific awards


Call Sign Lighthouse Location Lighthouse Number 1 7S6LGT Vinga Fyr, Sweden SWE-076 2 7S6LH Upper Sjotorp, Sweden SWE-441 3 8S6NAV Bastungen, Sweden SWE-287 4 8S6TYL Tylons Fyr, Sweden SWE-399 5 8S7GL Garpen, Sweden SWE-145 6 DA0QS Neuland, Germany FED-164 7 DA2005LH Staberhuk Fehmarn, Germany FED-226 8 DF0HC Helios Tower Cologne, Germany FED-107 9 DL0BUX Twiellenfleth, Germany FED-242 10 DL0IOO/L Leuchtturm Kiel, Germany FED-011 11 DL0RWE Old Borkum, Germany FED-124 12 DL1SKK/L ???? 13 DL5XL/P Strukkamphuk, Germany FED-234 14 G0VZV/P Needles Point Lighthouse, England ENG-083 15 GB0BHL Belle Tout Lighthouse, England ENG-005 16 GB0HL Happisburgh Lighthouse, England ENG-050 17 GB0SH Strumble Head, Wales WAL-029 18 GB2ELH Eshaness Lighthouse, Scotland SCO-075 19 GB2GLS Helwick Lightship Goleulong, Wales WAL-59 20 GB2LP Portpatrick, Scotland SCO177 21 GB2LSA At Anne’s Head Lighthouse, Wales WAL027 22 GB2NCL North Carr Lightship, Scotland SCO-151 23 GB2PLH Pakefield lighthouse, England ENG-098 24 GB2SFL South Foreland Lighthouse, England ENG-129 25 GB2TBW Trinity Buoy Wharf, England ENG-275 26 GB4BPL Burry Port Lighthouse, Wales WAL-035 27 GB4HCL Hurt Castle Lighthouse, England ENG-057 28 GB5WL Watchet Harbour Light, England ENG-174 29 GB8SL Kingston Buci Lighthouse, England ENG-125 30 GJ8PVL/L St Helier Leading Lights, Jersey JER-010 31 KA1RFD Burnt Island Lighthouse, USA USA-097 32 LA9K Oksay, Norway NOR-036 33 N7L Yaquina Bay, USA USA-906 34 OE6XMF Danude, Austria AUT-001/003 35 OH1AK Kylmapihlaja, Finland FIN-024 36 OH6NR/L Salgrund, Finland FIN051 37 ON4CCC/L Blankenberg, Belgium BEL-001 38 ON40SLN Nieuwpoort Head Main, Belgium BEL-004 39 OR0OST Lange Nelle, Belgium BEL-002 40 OZ1CF/L Rubjerg Knude, Denmark DEN-029/036 41 OZ2GBW Knudshoved, Denmark DEN-020 42 OZ7DAL Fyrskib XXI Lightship, Denmark DEN-009 43 PA1BDO/L ???? 44 PA5BM/L NET-017 45 PA6URK Urk, Netherlands NET-026 46 PB6KW/L Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands NET-013 47 PI4RCK/L Ijmuiden Lower Light, Netherlands NET-047 48 SK6FL Fladen Lightship SWE-044 49 SK6KY Skalholmen, Sweden SWE-034 50 TC1LHW Karaburun, Black Sea, Turkey TUR-036 51 VE3JW Cape North Ontario, Canada CAN-865 52 VO1MCE Cape Race, Canada CAN-118 53 WA8REI/P Huron Lightship, USA USA-394

Answers from September 2005 newsletter “Test Your Knowledge”. 1a, 2b, 3b, 4c, 5d, 6a, 7c, 8d, 9b, 10d 1. If a packet TNC is connected to a transceiver, what needs to be checked?

a. The plug is the correct type.

b. The PTT operates correctly.

c. The transmit audio level is correct and the PTT operates correctly..

d. The correct sideband has been se-lected on the TNC and the transceiver.

2. The correct rating fuse should be fitted because:

a. Otherwise too much power may be transmitted, exceeding the terms of the Foundation licence.

b. A higher fuse will cause too much cur-rent to flow.

c. The fuse will blow in the event of a fault.

d. Otherwise the power might fail in the middle of a radio contact.

3. The amateur “shack” should have a clearly marked “OFF” switch because:

a. Anybody can find it quickly in the event of an electrical accident.

b. It makes it a lot easier than having to switch off several times.

c. It is the easiest way to save electric-ity.

d. It allows a single, high value, fuse to be used for extra safety.

4. The intermediate frequency of a super-het receiver is the

a. The sum of the RF and the local oscil-lator frequencies

b. Difference between the RF and the local oscillator frequencies

c. Sum or the difference between the AF and the local oscillator frequencies

d. Sum or the difference between the RF and the local oscillator frequencies

5. The audio signal is recovered from a single sideband transmission using a

a. Diode detector

b. Discriminator

c. Beat frequency oscillator

d. Carrier insertion oscillator

6. Coaxial cable has

a. Two parallel wires separated by insu-lating material

b. A characteristic impedance of 300R

c. Cylindrical copper braid, insulated from a centre conductor

d. Two parallel wires separated by insu-lating spreaders

7. The main function of the ATU is to

a. Protect the transmitter from a light-ening strike

b. Reduce transmitter output power

c. Match the transmitter to the antenna system

d. Change the transmitted frequency

8. Which of the following are most likely to reduce “chirp” when operating a CW trans-mitter?

a. Using a low pass filter in the keying stage

b. Reducing the transmitted power

c. Stabilising the oscillator supply

d. Using a low pass filter after the PA stage

9. Parasitic oscillations in a transmitter am-plifier may often be cured by

a. Fitting a disc ceramic capacitor of about 100pF between base and collec-tor

b. Fitting a low value resistor in series with the base

c. Increasing the capacitance in the col-lector load

d. Increasing the input drive level

10. With which part of the circuit of a transceiver is the term “out of lock” associ-ated?

a. RF preamplifier

b. Carrier insertion oscillator

c. Frequency synthesiser

d. Audio limiter

Just how good is your Amateur Radio

knowledge?

Test Your Knowledge


Thanks to all who replied about what you wanted for a Christmas Night out. It came a very close thing between going out for a meal and the Christmas Party with the Christmas Party just winning, so to that end I have done a tentative booking at the Ravelston House Hotel, Fisherrow, Musselburgh. (same as last year) This booking needs to be confirmed and deposit paid by Friday 14th October. Not my decision but the hotels. I would appreciate a reply whether it is a (remember it is good manners to do so if asked, plus it helps me co-ordinate who has read the email and who has not): NO If not interested (Easy to do just click on Reply, type NO and then

click on Send) MAYBE Let me know your decision by 8th October. YES (1) Let me know numbers and (2) I need a £10 deposit with me by the

12th October. Please note this is non-refundable. Hotel rules. Full details are as follows:

CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT RAVELSTON HOUSE HOTEL, FISHERROW, MUSSELBURGH

Time 19:30 to 01:00 Cost £25 per head

Buffet served at 20:00 (last years was excellent)

Hot Buffet

Traditional turkey served with chipolatas and home made stuffing, with lashings of rich roast gravy

Roast Rib of beef, lavishly coated with a rich roast gravy Chef’s vegetarian dish of the day

Panache of market vegetables, chef’s choice of potatoes Cold Selection

Honey and pineapple roasted ham Home cooked roast beef

Turkey Breast Seafood Platter

Salads Our salad bar will contain a wide variety of salads

including Potato, Rice and Pasta dishes A choice of Desserts

£10p.p. Non-Refundable deposit when booking, Balance required by 14th November 2005

Christmas Night Out

Time to decide what you want to do at Christmas!


Date Time Event Contact Tel./E-Mail

02 Sep 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

03-Sep-05 15:00—15:45 Foundation License Exam

30 Sep 05 18:30 2nd 144 MHz DF Hunt Meet in Old Ship Inn Car Park (East) Ron GM4IKU 01875 811000

07 Oct 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

21 Oct 05 19:30 VIDEO NIGHT Port Seton Community Centre Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

23-Oct-05 10:30 Galasheils Rally, Volunteer Hall, Galasheils Jim GM7LUN

04-Nov-05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

02-Dec-05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn, Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

03-Dec-05 CPSARC Christmas Night Out

18-Nov-05 19:30 Talk by Colin GM0RLZ “My time in Iraq” Resources Room 2, Port Seton Community Centre Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

19-Nov-05 Leonid Peak

Forthcoming events are shown below. Please enter in your diary for 2005 and make an effort to attend as many as you can. These events are organized on your behalf do take a lot of organizing. It’s a great shame that more members are not in atten-dance on these nights which are ideal for learning more about our hobby as well as enjoying the company of like minded friends. As usual any further events for inclusion in this page can be forwarded to me at [email protected]

Events Column


Information The Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club was formed by Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ in 1984, to help the local amateurs get to know each other. Numbers have increased steadily over the years and now average about 20. Far from being just a local club we have members coming from the Borders, Dumfries, Strathclyde and Fife. The Club meets on the first Friday of every month (Second Friday of January) in the lounge of the Thorn-tree Inn on the old Cockenzie High Street from 7pm till late. The Club is run in a very informal way, there are no fees, no real committee structure, just a group of like minded people doing something they enjoy! This does not mean that we don’t do anything, we en-ter (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 disease by donating the profits from events we hold, we have raised over £11,237 since 1994. The Club is affiliated to the Radio Society of Great Britain and holds the callsigns MM0CPS and GM2T which are used for our special event and contest en-tries. We have our own internet domain www.cpsarc.com and club members can get their own ‘[email protected]’ email addresses. The club also has a Yahoo! Group which is used to manage a mailing list. (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpsarc) Contacts General Correspondence, Amateur Licence Training (Foundation & Intermediate at present) and Contest entries Bob Glasgow [email protected] HF Contests, Cambell Stevenson [email protected] Newsletter, Web Site, Email Admin John Innes [email protected] Events Column Ron Brown [email protected]

We’re on the web! www.cpsarc.com

7 Castle Terrace Port Seton

East Lothian EH32 0EE

Phone: 01875 811723 E-mail: [email protected]

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