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

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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.

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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:

gm4uyz@cpsarc.com

For events listed below,

please use these contacts

HF Contests

Cambell Stevenson

mm0dxc@aol.com

VHF Contests

John MacLean

mm0ccc@cpsarc.com

Club Tables

Bob Purves

gm4ikt@cpsarc.com

Contest Reports

Robin Farrer

mm0vtv@cpsarc.com

Newsletter, website,

event calendar

John Innes

newsletter@cpsarc.com

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