CIub NewsletterVoLUME 12, ISSUE 12

Coekenzie & Port Seton20th Anniversary Year

Editonial

DecrMeen 2004

Amateur Radio Club

Special pointsof interest:

. Banaba Ta/k

c GM4W'Z tu DRB 4

c IOTA arlfatliutiott

c RoJal Obserualory

Talk:

Inside thisissue:

Oonstructi<n Night 2

Banaba l)Xpcditxrn J

(;1\{4UYZ appoint- 4lncnt

|,,\'cnts t,.)lumn J

l()'l 'r\ adiudicatton 6

(,ontcst ()alcntlar /

(jlub Attcndccs I

Royal Observa- 9

tory Talks

Vell folks another year has

nearly gone, oh where do

they vanish too? From a per-

sonal r.'iewpoint it has been

another busy year on both

the club and petsonal front

to the extent I have not

plaved as much radio a-q I

would have liked to, may'be

next yeal.

As ahvays in the December

editorial I try to glve z rccap

in what we have done in thepast year. I will start with the

unfortunate sad oews where

John N{I{OJXI,InnesGA,{4VJ\r, Alex Glv{4TAL all

lost tireir mothers, JackNIN{3JTA who lost his sistet

and sadl,v as well one of out

club members David

\dN{3JSA who suddenly

passed away. As always our

thoughts will go out to themand theit famil-ies particularlyat this time of year. The good

news then is that ofJohnlv{lvIOJXI and Lisa and also

Brian N{0RNR and Sarah

gettrng married. Once againrve wish them all the best in

their future happiress to-

gether.

On the club's attendancessince December last year,(Figutes run from December

to Nol'ember) we have aver-aged 20 people at club nights

the exact same as lastyear.53people have come throughthe door a decrease of 7 <-rnlast yeat. I hope that this

trend will not continue and

that it uall start to rise again,

as it makes me wonder whatneeds to tre done to efl.cour-

age new faces as weil as to

encourage evelTone who has

been before to come moreoften. The FoundationCourses have certainly cre-ated some of the new atten-dees and long may that con-tinue. I always live in hopethat some of the old regularswill return to the fold but we

will have to wait and see. Istill feel though that we havea very stroflg and healthyclub but as I have said beforeit rs down to you all making itthat way.

rrX&at have we done this yearthe. We once again enteredthe P\7 Club Spotlight Tro-phy competition for a clubnewsletter. We took the deci-sion to move into the Na-tional section, a few years

back, again due to the dis-

tance that some people driveto attend so we have onceagain entered that section. AsI write this the results havenot been announced so we await vrith anticipation.

From the training aspect

once again we have runFoundation Courses and atthe ptesent the first Interme-diate Course is well on itsway. The 10 candidates aresitting their exam on the eve-ning of N{onday 6tlt Decem-bet so I am sure you will goalong with me and wish themali the very best. With regardto how many have passed the

Foundation Exam this year,well we managed to get26through, this including mak-ing a trip to Tiree in Aprilwhere we had 8 successfulcandidates. With regard tothe facilities to deliver theftaining I certainly mustthank the Port Seton Com-munity Centre. The centrestaffhas certainly been veryhelpfui in ensuring that eve-

rything nrns smoothlJ' for us.I also must really offer a hugethanks to Cambell MIvI0DXCfor invigilating the examsplus all the extra effort andsuppolt that he offers as Ideli'i'er the courses, to RonGM4IKU who helps Cambellinvip5ilate, Tom GA.{4LRU forthe practical on the air ses-sions and to ail the otherswho have done their part inheiping the candidates gettheir licence

The club members visited theradio rallies at Blackpool,

Leicester and Galashiels.

Nfoving on and from theofficral events caiendar wehad our annual tadio checknight b.r'John N{I\{0JXI, avery useful night indeed, keepit upJohn. We had talks byTom \7,vlie GM4FDNf on"The Banaba Trip", AlanThomson from the BritishGeological Society "SpaceWeather and how it affectsRadios". We had a fun timeat the 10 Pin Bowling, a goodfamily night out, plus thanksto Brian NfORNR our trip to

(Oontinacl /nn lage 1)

the Edinburgh Sorting Office at

SightHll and lastly a r,-ideo night en-joyed by all who atrended.

This year we have been running a

serious of Construcfion nights where

everl"one in+olved liai ihosijn theii

own proiect i.e. dummy load, voice

keyer, etc.

Special events this year were Port

Seton Gala !7eek, two visits to the

N{useum of Flight inJune and Julyusing GB2I\IOF plus our annual

lighthouses event at Barns Ness with

GB2LBN.

We had two DF nights, one in l\{ay

and the other in Septembet. Once

agaln fhey were thoroughly cnloyed

bj' those taking part. Being at two

different times of the year where one

was done in daylight and the other in

darkness certainly added to the

events. DF hunting I can tell you is

not easy and ifyou have never done

it before whl' 1161 go out in the 2005

eveflts, I am sure you will enjol'

them.

On the contesting front we managed

a few \rHF coritests, mainly operated

byJohn i\'1 ,{OCCC. The contestswere RSGB 6M Trophy, VHF FieldDay, RSGB 70N,IHz Trophy and theRSGB 144MHz Trophy. The biggestparticipation by club member was inthe \rHF Field Day which althoughhard work is still very enjoyable. Cer-tainly- tlese hav.e dtopped in volumecompared to what we used to do. Onthe HF front we took part in thefollowing contests AFS SSB & CWRSGB IOTA, and lastly CQW!7SSB. The big one being the IOTAcontest where again we did it fromthe Island of Tiree. We dlso did ourown 20N{ contest, which was not sowell supported this year, but thanksto those who did take part. Lasdy on

the competitive front I ran a compe-tition to celebrate the club's 20 yearexistence tnllth a f,20 winning stake,sadly it was poody supported. I triedto encourage some operating as atthe end of the day, yes we are radioamateurs.

Junk night was once agaita re-sounding success and with themoney raised drere it brought ourtotal up to f,955.49 for the year and

f10392 since we started in 1993.!7ell done to everyone in helping

raise this sort of monel'.

Lastly as a reminder we have a ClubLogo and garments can be obtainedfrom Patricia Bewsey at FentonBarns.

Right that is about it again fot an-otlrer. y,eaf as you can see-it-has..been*- -.-.. ^.-.....-.very busy with one thing and anotherand no doubt I have missed some-thing. AI that is left to say to you allis to WISH YOU,tLL AND YOURFAMiLIES A \G,RY A,{ERRYCHRISTN{,{S AND A HAPPY,HEAITF{Y AND PROSPOROUSNEW\EAR. I should add I hooeyou get what you want as well fromSanta, assuming vou posted yourletter!

Bob GN{4UYZ

PS: RememberJanuary club night isthe second Friday inJanuary, the 14thTanuarv.

Construction Night

Pncr 2:.irt::i:

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C'r.u.n

Editorial cont,

2nd Winter Nights

The night took place on the 11th No-

vember 2004 ]n Resources Room 2

in the Community Centre and glad to

say tbat 9 people nrrned up, Colin

NfIv{3ENN{ building his audio ampli-

fie4Jack A,fN{3JTA continuing with

his Intermediate Course Audio Am-

plifier Project, Stuart GNITDRY with

his Dummy Load a*d ravself with

my NA cable adapter. Bob Gl!{4FIB

brought along his radio and Cambell

N{I,I0DXC did the necessary work to

allow the tadio to transmit on the

newallocated section of40N{. Sup-

potting the night were \rrc

GM4GGF, Ron GN{4IKU and Petet

GA,IIRCP. It was certainiy nice to seea hive of activity and I felt it was avery successful night all round. Onething that did come out of it for meis that although we label it as a"Constri-rction Ntght" maybe the realheading should be a "PracticalNight" where all sorts of ptacticalthings could be done i.e. projects,repairs, technical advice, etc. What

do you think of that? $7ould it en-coufage more to come along, a goodquestion which I don't know theanswer?

Ok the last of this session will be the9d'December and i f the response isthe same as this one then I will ar-

range some after the year as I havedecided to give myseif a well earnedbreak untii February apart from clubnights I must add.

See you all on the 9tl, Decemberthen.

Bob GN{4UYZ

The above talk took Place at our

usual venue in the Port Seton Com-

munity Centre on Friday 19d'No-

vember. It certainly was a superb talk

by Tom giving us all the information

on what was required to Put such a

DX-Pedition on. This particular trip

was otig'inal organised by-the same

group of amateurs who rvent to the

Faroe lslands, last years talk by Teg1,

but when the logistics were being set

up it was discovered that there were

others doing exactly the same thing.

In the end they all joined forces to

become a totally multi-national team'

All the logistics and packing and test-

ing of equipment was done bY the

Dutch and German Arnateurs, when

you see the slides it certainly was a

mammoth task. Every single nut and

bolt, food and water, genelators,

equipment, etc, etc all had to be ac-

counted for. This was ail packed and

shipped in a container to be delivered

at an island close to Banaba. What a

task is ail I can sa1' as I know what it

is like to organise thhgs.

Eventually they made there way to

the island via Seou1, Fiii and then to

one ofthe nearby islands to Banaba

finalising in a 32 hour boat trip. On

reaching Banaba everything had to be

transported to the island on a couple

of small boats as the shiP that theY

used could not dock at the Pier due

to lack of water. On the island they

used three separate areas, one for

CW, one for Data and one for SSB.

lfithin each area they had up to three

separate stations nroning, each had a

K2 plus Lirear. Aerials were Beams

and wire antennas. The best arcaby

far was the SSB ate?as they had the

adr.rantage of an old sports field to

set-up ofr.

Tom is what I term a "natrtal"

speaker and certainly kept us all en-

tertained as he narrated the storyalong with plenty of little amusing

antidotes. This was all baLked up

with a PowerPoirit preseotation and

pictures of the trip. This time as part

of the presentation Torn delved into

the histoq' of the island and its peo-ple, Banaba was found to be rich in

Phosphates which were mined by the

Australian and British Govetnments.

once they had extracted everything

they just up and left the island but

befote they went they literallysmashed er.'erything that was of

worth to pieces so that it could not

be used by any other person. They

then just left it to rot what an abso-

lute waste and single mindedness.

Their trip to the island was extremely

successful as it achieved the aim if

giving Europe the chance to work a

rare DX island in the Pacific. A phe-

nomenal cost to do it but thanks to

many donations and sponsorship it

helped keep the costs down for each

of the individuals having said thatTom reckoned it cost him f3000petsonally.

After there trip they stopped on Fijifor a few dal'5 1o fecovef and have abit off a holiday, oh and play radio!!Aftet that the group split up with the,tinericans heading eas[ biCli io i6eUSA and the Europeans headingwest. They stopped again at Seoulwhere they were met by some of thelocal amateurs who literally tookthem under their wing. Took them totheir club roorrs. laid on a meal andparty ar'd even paid their hotel ac-commodation. A real true spirit ofalnateur radio and what it means,don't you think.

The trip 1s2lly looked fantastic andeveryone invoived seemed to thor-oughly enjoy themselves. To some-one like myself it is all a dream,maybe one day who knows.

Overall it was a fantastic talk andcertainiy one of the best I have heard

yet. It was enjoyed b)' all those whoattended so for those that missed iqwell what can I say. !7e are certainlyvery grateful and thankful for Tom

coming across from the other side ofGlasgow to give us the talk. When isthe next one Tomll

Bob GN{4UYZ

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GM4UYZ-DRRM Appointment

Crue NewsrryreRi.,;:lr,ll,l

2"d November 2004This is to let you all know that I have

accepted the role of Depury RSGB

Regional N{anager (DRRi\D for Dis-

trict 15, Lothian's. I was approached

a few weeks back by Gordon Hunter

GN{3ULP who is dre.RSGB RegionalNlanager for Scotland South & \X/est-

ern Isles - Region 1 (covers districts

11 to 16) to whether I would be in-

terested in taking on the role and

after some deliberation I decided I

would give it a go. The role is for a

term period of3 years unless I decide

tlrat I no longer wish to catry out the

role and resign, after this period you

may stand down or could be asked to

continue longer. See below iust foryor:r information "what the book

says" is the role and responsibilities

of the iob.

For those who maybe interested theDistricts are:

District 11 Central, City of Glasgow

District 12 Lanarkshire, Ren-frewshire

District 13 Ayrshire, Dumfrjes &Galloway

District 14 Dunbartonshire, Argyll& Bute, vr'estern Isles

District 15 Lothian

District 16 Bordets

Role and Resoonsibilities (DRRI\f)

C)verwierv:

The Deputy RSGB Regional Manag-ers prime responsibility is to marlagethe relationships between the clubsin his area eithet via the RSGB Affili-ated Club Contact or Secretary andthe RSGB Regional Nlanager in acompetent and professional rnannerto maximise the benefits the mem-bers receive at local level from theRSGB.

Q)istrict 15 Affiliated C1ubs:Cockenzie & Port Seton ARC,Uvingston ARC and Lothian ARS)

ProFrie:

The DRRI\{ will probably haveserved as a Committee member, Sec-retary or Chairman of a radio club orrepeatef group.

Be a good communicator and bereasonably well known within thearea they live.

Will have a flexible attitude to work-irg practices and have time avaiiableoutside of the working day to sup-port fellow radio amateurs andgrouPs.

Reporting to:

RSGB Regional N{anager ARX,D

Responsible for:

o A link between the membetshipand the Nationai Council - Adviceand Support to RSGB Affiliated So-cieties.

lr"".ttnno* to Members withrn his

o Submitting imponant area issuesrcquiring clarification to the RR-L,{ fotdiscussion.

. ,\ttending Regional meetings asrequired.

o Submitting a monthly activityreport to the RRN{.

o Gaining authority for expendi-ture and club visits ftom the RRivI.

o Submitting expense claims in atimely maonet.

o Attending ORI\,I's and othermeetings within his specific area.

. Supporting Affiliated Society

;n:"r or club secretaries within his

j Qir"ing RSGB presentarions roclubs and groups as appropriate andas agreed with your RRN,I. This wilibe approximately 8 visits a year.

N{aintaining ^r ^re

directory of allRSGB and amateur radio resourceswithin his area.

Bob GN{4UYZ

voluNr 12, Issur 12 ffit$

Events Column

Events for the coming year ate shown below, so get your diaries out!. Please make an effort to attend as many as you

can. Tlrese events are provided for your enjoyment and do take a lot of organtzing on your behalf.

It,s a great shame that more callsigns are not in evidence on these nights which are ideal for learning mote about out

hobby as well as eniof ing the companl' of like minded friends'

As usuai any further everts for inclusion in this page can be sent to me at gm4iku@cpsarc.com

Ron GNI4II{U

Date Time Event Contact Tel./E-Mail

03 Dec 04 19:00 Club Nisht in the Thorotee Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

04 Dec 04 19:30 CLUB CHRISTX4,TS NIGHTRaveiston hotel Musselburgh

Bob GM4UYZ 07875 811723

07 Dec 04 19.30 , {agnet-ic,I-iglrlsj-- 'Guide' to,the,Autoiaer ,: ,bv Ian Sheffieldr GM:vnI'at the Royal, Observatory

Royal , , r , .OUsArvatorv

0131 668 8100

09 Dec 04 19:00 CPSARC Construction NightPort Seton Commuaity Centre

Bob GN{4UYZ 01875 811723

14- Ian 05 19:00; Club Nisht in the trhomttee lnn port Setori Bob;Gir{4UYZ,',97875 811,723

04 Feb 05 19:00 Club Nisht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GN{4UYZ 01875 811723

11 Feb 05 19:30 R,{DIO CHECK NIGHT By lohn MM0IXIPort Seton Community Centre,'Resourse Room 2

Bob GM4tfYZ 0.1.875.81w23

04 Nlar 05 19:00 Club Nisht in the Thomtree Inn Port Seton Bob GIr{4UYZ 41.875 811723

18 Mar 05 19:30 Talk bv David Dodds GM4\VI-I-Nahrtal Radio Trans-

mittcrs, Port Seton Commurrity Centre

Bob GI\{4UYZI I i : l ' ! - :

01875,811723

TBC Talk by Pie-rre-LouisrF5NED "A French Eveningii

01 Apr 05 19:00 Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GI\{4UYZ 0t875 811723?? {nr Oi 18:30 10 Pin BowlingNight

Alesabowl Kinnaird ParkBob GNI4UYZ 01875 811723

06 N{av 05 19:00 Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Poft Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

13 l\iay 05 18:30 744Nillz DF HuntNleet in Old Ship Inr.Cat Park @ast)

Ron GNi4IKU 01875 811000

03 Jun 05 19:00 Club NiEht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GIvI4UYZ 01875 811723

12 Tun 05 TBA Practical Wireless 744Nf,l,z QRP Contest

18/19Jun 05 Museums On Air lTeekendN{useum of Flieht East Forhrne GB2I{OF

Bob GN{4UYZ 01875 8n123

22Jan05 19:00 to22;,CI0 ,l

CPSARC 20 Metre Contest Bob GM4UYZ 01875 8717.23

02/03 lur05 TBA \THF FIELD DAY

08 lur 05 19:00 Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GN{4UYZ 01,875 811723

30/31 iul 05 RSGB IOTA Contest from the Isiand Of Tiree Bob GNI4UYZ 01875 8\1723

05 Aue 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thomtree Inn Port Seton Bob GN{4UYZ 01875 81.1.723

12 Aug 05 18:30 ANNUALJUNKNIGHTCommunitv Centre Port Seton

Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

20/21 Aus05 Liehthouses Weekend BARNS NESS GB2LBN Bob GN{4UYZ 01875 811.723n, q.- o( 19:00 Normal Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GNI4UYZ 01875 811723

30 Sep 05 18:30 )n<t !Q/,IVIhz DF Hunt

lr'{eet in Old Ship Inn Car Park (East)Roo GIV4IKU 01875 811000

07 Oct 05 19:00 Club NiEht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01.875 81L723

21Oct 05 19:30 VIDE,O NIGHTPort Seton Community Centre

Bob GN{4UYZ 01875 811723

04 Nov 05 19:00 Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GX{4UYZ 01875 811723

02 Dec 05 19:00 Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GN,{4UYZ 01875 811723

03 Dec 05 Prooosed date for Cluistmas NiEht Out

:]:r,;oooi u

IOTA Contest 2OO4-GM2T Log Adjudication

For those who took Patt in the IOTA

contest you might like to see where

we lost points from what we submit-

ted. I got Don Field G3XTT to send

me the UBN frle for out entry. Some

of the BAD COPY's look like hitting

the wrong key next to the keY Youwant or just plainly misheard the -call.sign. The C$7 ones sorne are mistak-

ing one chatactet for another i,e. "I"

for "S", etc. Not haPPY about the

LZ1NG and BAD IOTA as we

worked him at different times and on

both occasions we never entered an

IOTA, save for 9A2V, guestion did

they actualll' pass an IOTA Reference.

NOT IN LOG's well how do we

make sure we actualll' worked them, if

we were the RUN we must have but

if we were the N'IULT then I wonder.

Total pS O I rubnitted (inclading dupes)was / 682.

Yoar log conlains / I (.07%) nniquel(Yoa haue I'JOT lost an1 credit,for thue

QsoJ).Yoa haue hst 8 nahiplier mdit(s) and 29

Q! O nedit (s) at fo llows:

Summary of score using the follow-ing formula

((non4aTA QSO's+ QSO's wtfhsame IOTA) x3 + QSO's wifh ofherlOTAsxlS) x mults) = fiial score

Score before adjudication from 1660valid QSO's r's:

((972+4) x 3 + 684 x 15) x 277 =3653076 points

Score after adjudication from 1631valld QSO's is: ((953+4) x 3 + 674 x15) x 269 = 3491889 points (4.62%)

UBN repaft pA.fi created on l'lo-vember 16, 2004,7:50 pm by theIOTA contest Robot.

There you go then and you canreadwhat you want into the information

but it shows that just a few mistakesmeans a fair percentage loss in overallscoring.

Bob GM4UYZ

Time BND MD YprlSeriat

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Not in ()Y1O'I s krg t\{u1;l'I 5C\i',

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173s 4{J I ) I I 536 l)K0lulvll< 1U{l ltnD coPY Should bc l)KOMM

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llt40 4ll C\\. 636 l{x3AZ 243 I]AD COPY Shoulci bc RZ3AZ

1852 4Il (l\\' 653 l)t.3BltK 94 I]AD COPY Should bc I)l.3BRA

20t)1, 4\) c\{: 713 9l'2't 281) BAD tO-r)\ lrJ^l)to'f^l

I()l A of 9A2V u'as IiU17(t

201)9 4t l cw 724 uAact)v 366 I]AD (]OPY Should bc UA9(il)V

2044 8{} PII '7 51 P^9D'/. BI\D CoPY Should bc PA9ZZ

214'l 80 C\\t 829 LrY57-S 1 11) BAt) COI'Y Shorrld bc UY5Z

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2225 fJ{ | (1\' tlu2 ()1.6w 389 IIAD COPY ShoulJ be ()1,(,1'

2256 IJ0 PI I 936 sP4Sll) t l2 !At) (-()l Should bc SI)4S| l l )

8{ I)I I 1{{17 i)r.lj(;(l 90 BAI) COPY Should bc Dl,1l(;()

8() 1) l i t(t32 ] ,Z1N(; \04 uu125 BAt) t()T'A lBAnIO'I'AI

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0633 20 I ) I I iN3XU(; 51() N()Qs()lN()'frNr-ocl

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rr22 20 l r l I 1446 I ) t2Kt i , 94 llnl) (;oPY Should be I)1,21:K

1934 20 PI I 1469 [4BKtt 126 I}AI) (]OPY Should bc lr4liKV

1{)5{) 20 PII 1 593 l)K0K\VI I 1093 F,U129 NOQSO MU1, ' f20Ptl

Vor-umr i2, Issur 12

Contest Calendar

General Notes :

The club or its members plan'lhope to be active in those events shown as bold above'

RSGB HF

RSGB \THF

ARRL

cQ v"x

: http: / /www'blacksheep.o tg/ hfcc /

: http: / /www.blacksheep.o rg / vhfcc /

: http://www.ad'org/ cottests /

: http: / / home.woh. rr.com/ wPx/

CQ\X,\{/ : http://www'cq-amateur-radio'com'/cqwwhome'html

Links to most of the other eveots, or fheir rules, can be found on the SNI3CER contest web Page under calendar

2003. Starr at http:/Z.xr'ror'.stlfrg.r"/."",est/ and use the appfoPfiate lirks to find the info you require'

Take a look at this, if trou've not alreadl, seen it before. it'll imptove your cw speed for next yeaf and will probably

keep RIZ and CCC occupied for Hoursl

http: / /www.dxatlas.com/lvlorseRunner

Brian M0RNR

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Club Attendees since L992

Cr-ua NewslnTii

For many of you the jest I get on a

club night "here is again giving us a

tick in the register", to the newcomers

)iou may wonder wh;'I do it, ok I am

sad but I know that. Basically though

it all started as I was iust interested on

who had come to a club night Plus I

do keep a record of all what goes on

within the club in files at the local

Iibrary as patt of the town's Local

History. Like all statistics lots of

"things" can be read into them so I

suppose in reality you take out of

them what vou want. With regard to

club members well 1'611 became one

the minute you walked in the door on

an official club night, easy is it not.

\Xhen I look back over my whole list

of people who have actuaill, 6211s

through the doot, 179 in total since I

started keeping the "tick "sheet, it is

interesting to note them all. Some

people only came oflce some come a

few times and some have come more

or less each club night. Some of the

old regulars have moved away and

can't attend, some are totally con-

strained by a change in their wotking

lives and sadly some are no longer

with us. Yes maybe I am sad but I canjust about temember each and every-

one. N{y drezm {ot a club night is for

everyone who has been to actually

rurn up, now that would be a night.

Another dream is much on the same

line but to hold a huge "convention"

for tlre lack of a better word, with

guest speakers, stalls, etc, etc, now this

is iust not a dream but a nigh on im-

possibility., an)/ way there vou go.

The table 1 below is ali about thenumber of times that someone hasattended a club night since November1992. Since then up until the Novem-ber 2004 club night it is a total of 145club nights. You have to rememberdrat people have started com-ing to theclub as receflt as November past ot aslong as since I started making notes soio essence the table can look miscon-

strued. Still makes interesting reading

though.

The other Table 2 is to show howmany different people visited the club

that year. Basicalllt eveq/one stafts afresh each yeat so it just show for ex-ample in 2003 62 different amateurs/SWL's came through the doors on aclub night.

Table 1

Table 2

No matter what I just hope that theclub will keep on going from year toyea4that the old regulars will continueto support it, sorne of the people whocame in the past vaill return and moreso that we cal keep on encouragingnew blood to come along. $Tithoutany ofle there is no club and it will die,hopefully it will never happen, so folksif you are reading this after download-ing the newsletter of the web and youare close enough to attend a radio clubnight why not come along and coliectyour personai copy on the actualnight. Club nights are the 1*t Friday ofeach month exceptJanuary where it isthe 2",1Friday.

Look forward to seeing you all.

Bob GN{4UYZ

YEAR' t : t : , I , i i

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No.,of Feople.Via C:dadi

1992r993 oz

1994 531995 621996 611997 741998 ()-)1.999 6t20002001 4620022003 oz

2004 53

No; of CIub,Nights.' r

No.,of People who,,.,ha;i: attend-ed , i

0-9 11010-19 2120-29 930-39 /

a

40-49 6

50-59 trJ

60-697A -79 2

80-89 4

90-99 4

100 - 109 a,

t10 - 179 1I

t20 - 129 3130 - 1.39 1t40 -149 1

Club members may be interestedin the programme of Public talks

at the Royal Obsewatory in Edin-

burgh, held at 7.30-8.30Pm most

Tuesday evenings during theWinter. They take Place in theRoyal Observatory Lectute Thea-

tfe.

Adults [2 ([10 Season Ticket)

Child/Conc [1 (# Season Ticket)

DECEMBER

7th December Ian Sheffreld

Magnetic Lights - A Guide to the

AuroraeIn Scotland we have good chances of

seeing the "Northern Llghts" if fhe

conditions are right. Learn how best

to see the autotz zr'd how to con-

struct a simple instrument to show

its effects on the Earth's magnetic

field.

14st December Russell Eberst

The Night Sky inJanuarY

This month see beautiful ringed

planet Satum at its closest and

brightest this yeat. L{eteors and a

comet will also command our atten-

tion!

21st December Alan Fleavens

Bending Ligh* Gravitational

Lensing in AsffonomY

Gravitational lensing was a curiositl'

in Einstein's time, but has evolved

rapidly over recent years into a Pow-erfirl weapon in the armoury of the

Astronomer. Find out how it is used

to tell us about our own galaxY, dis-

tant galaxies and clusters ofgalaxies,

and how it ma1, hold the keY to firrd-

ing out what the Universe is rea\

made of.

JANUARY 2o0s

1 lth J znrary Suzie RamsaYThe Life Cycle of Stars'lhe life of a stat is rarely boring and

has been observed in all its beauty.Every step from their birth in dustYdark clouds, to 'going out with abang' as a supemova is being ex-plored. This talk will discuss the Iife-

cycle of stars, illustrated with the

most recent observational results.

l8thJanuary David Bacon

Probing the Datk Enetgy

Recenfly, evidence has been found

for the idea that the Universe is notjust expanding; the expansion is get-

ting faster and faster. It seems that

space is Frlled with a m)'stedous en-

ergy that causes this acceleration..lWe

call this 'Dark Energy', and really

want to uncover its secrets. How can

we discover more about it?

25th January Russell Eberst

The Night Sky itr Febtuary

Satum is the centre of orir attention,

both in our skies and under scrutiny

from space probes.

FEBRUARY

1st February Colin Cunningham

Giant TelescopesThe next genetation of ground-based

telescopes will be huge - up to 100

metres in diameter. Why do we need

such enormous telescopes? \X{hat

challenges will we face building these

Extremely Large Telescopes which

will need more precision optics than

have been made in the whole history

of astronomy?

8th February N{arek Kukula

Comet and Asteroid ImPacts

Pl'anets and moons throughout the

Solar System are litteted with craters

caused by the impact of comets and

astetoids. But can such objects ever

strike the Earth, and what haPPens

when they do? This talk summarises

the evidence for past imPacts on

Earth and looks at how we might try

to preveflt them in the future.

15th February Mark Wyatt

Exfta Solat PlanetsWe now know of over one hundred

planets orbitrng stars other than our

own Sun. Surprisingly, none of these

planetary systems looks much like

the Solar System. This talk will de-

scribe the methods used to detect

these planets and discuss what these

systems look like and how they com-

pare with our own Solar System.

22nd F ebraaty Russell Eberst

The Night Slqy in March

Satum andJupitet can be found in

the evening sky. Find out what else is

on show around the tirne of the equi-nox.

MARCH

1st lvlarch Rob IvisonA Submillimetre view of the Uni-vefse.Maior advances have been rnade in.our understanding of the formation

and evolution of galaxies since thediscovery of a number of dusty, stat-burst galaxies in the early Universe. Iwill describe recent advances, includ-ing the measurement of a representa-

tive specroscopic redshift distribu-

tion, the resolution of the eatire sub-

millimetre background by exploiting

gravitational lensing, the detection ofX-ray and mid-infrared emissionftom z significant fraction of the

population, the detection of collosal

quantities of molecular gas, and thefirst tangible indications of the clus-

tering of these massive galaxies,

which places them in the context of

modern-day galaxy populations.

8th lvlarch Olivia JohnsonFrom the Celestial Sphete to the

Big Bang: An Overview of out

GrcwingUnderstanding of our Place in the

UniverseThis talk wili take )'eg e11 2

iourney through many centuries, to

explore how our understanding of

the Universe and our place within it

has changed. Through the ages our

model of the way the Universe works

and how it began has been furned on

its head many times as new discover-

ies have been made and more meas-

urements of the heavens have been

taken. Find out how this process

continues to this dayl

15th March Alan Pickup

Satum and Cassini

After a journey of almost seveoyears, NASA's Cassini spacecraft

reached Saturn lastJuly. It caried the

Huygens probe which was buiJt by

Eurooean researchers to land onTitan, the largest of the planet's many

moons. This talk reports on the latest

discoveries from the mission and

tells you where to see Saturn for

yourself in tonight's sky.

Royal ObservatorY-Public Talks

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Information

The Cockenzie & Pott Seton Arnateut Radio CIub wasformed by Bob Glasgow GM4IJYZ in 1984, to help thelocal amateurs get to know each other.

Numbets have increased steadily over the years and

now average about 20.

Far frorn being iust a local club we have members com-

ing from the Bordets, Dumfries, Stathclyde and Fife.

Thg Club rneets on the first Friday of every month

(Second Ftiday of January) in the lounge of the Thorn-

ttee Inn on the old Cockenzie High Street ftom 7pm till

late.

The Club is run in a very informal way, there are no

fees, no teal committee structure, iust a group of like

rninded 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 hold a populat annual Junk Sale. Out

newsletter has won the PW Spotlight competition on

sevetal occasions.

The Club suppotts the British Ffeatt Foundation in

memory of a member who died from heart disease by

donating the ptofits ftom events we hold, we have

raised ovet f,70r392 since 1994.

The Club is affiliated to the Radio Society of Great Brit-

ain and holds the callsigns MM0CPS and GM2T which

are used for our contest and special event entfies.

We have out own internet domain \a1trrr/.cpsarc.com

and club membets c^tr get theit owntcallsign@cpsarc.comt email addresses. The club also

has a Yahoo! Gtoup which is used to manage a mailing

list.

(see http: / /groups,yahoo.com/group/cpsarc)

Contacts

General Correspondence, Novice Training, Contest entries

Bob G lasgon, gm 4uy r.@cpsarc.com

HF Contests,Swpm Morse Class

(lambcll Stcvenson mm()dxc@cpsarc.com

VHF Contests

(irlin Smith grn()cln@cpsarc.com

Newsletter, Web Site, email admin

John Inncs mm0jxi@cpsarc.com