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2016

Year in Review

Hello Members,

I’m conscious of the fact that I have only produced one newsletter this year so I thought I’d

better do a brief round-up of what the Club has been up to during the past 12 months.

When you see it all written down and covering 14 pages it looks a lot—and it is!

Compared to some clubs we are very active but then you would expect that with over 100

members.

MEMBERSHIP FACTS AND FIGURES

We have had 36 new members join during 2016 and have finished the year with 120

members:

7 Life members, 100 Corporate members, 12 Junior members and 1 Associate

member.

Licence category: 50 Full licencees, 20 Intermediate licencees, 39 Foundation

licencees, 11 SWLs)

17% of the membership is female

Sadly 6 members became Silent Key : Roy Frettsome GT4WPW, Richard ‘Ziggy’

Hudson G1ZIG , Mick Jordan G7NKE, Ray Mallender G1UPL , Aidan Ascroft

2E0LTV and Chris Ives 2E0CAG.

One of the activities which gets a good number of members participating is Contesting and we have done really well this year. 2016 has seen the club improve or maintain its place on all bands in UKAC VHF/UHF contests with some marvellous individual performances as well.

On 6m we were in 10th place in 2015 and have improved to 4th place out of 78 clubs in 2016, having also given the big contest groups a scare in the early part of the year when we held 1st place. Congratulations to Steve, G0EAK, 1st place, John, 2E0DXK, 4th place and Leading Intermediate Licence holder, and Tony, M6KTP, 5th place and Leading Foundation Licence holder, all in the low power (10 Watts) section.

On 4m, we finished in 6th place in 2015, and maintained this in 2016 out of 59 clubs. Congratulations to Steve, G0EAK, 1st place, John, 2E0DXK, 3rd place and Leading Intermediate Licence holder, and Tony, M6KTP, 5th place and Leading Foundation Licence holder, all in the low power (4 Watts) section.

On 2m, we held 10th place in 2015 and improved to 6th place in 2016 out of 105 clubs.

Congratulations to John, 2E0DXK, Leading Intermediate Licence holder and Tony, M6KTP, Leading Foundation Licence holder, both in the low power (10 Watts) section. Both John and Tony will need to collect trophies at the RSGB Convention in October 2017, the first time anybody from Worksop ARS has collected a trophy – well done to both of you.

On 70cm, we finished in 11th place in 2015 and improved to 7th place in 2016 out of 79 clubs. Congratulations again to John, 2E0DXK, Leading Intermediate Licence holder and Tony, M6KTP, Leading Foundation Licence holder, both in the low power (10 Watts) section.

On 23cm, we finished in 19th place in 2015 and improved to 14th place in 2016 out of 55 clubs.

In the overall placings we finished in 11th place in 2015 and improved to 7th place in 2016 out of 120 clubs. Congratulations to Tony, M6KTP for Leading Foundation Licence holder, having finished in 38th place overall out of a total of 739 individual entrants. Congratulations also to Steve, G0EAK, for finishing in 10th place overall, narrowly missing out to M0RKX for leading portable station.

Full details at http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin//vhfresults.pl?ContestSeries=Overall%20UKAC&year=2016

During the year 34 members supported the club by submitting logs and there were other members who supported the contesting by logging on Tuesday nights at the club, going out portable with other members or loaning equipment etc. so a big thank you to everybody who supported the contesting in some way.

The full list of members who submitted logs together with their contribution to the club score and their overall placing in the RSGB table is shown overleaf…...

Congratulations to Steve, G0EAK for heading the table for the second successive year and therefore he will retain the G0BYQ Cup. Competition is hotting up though from John, 2E0DXK and Tony, M6KTP so 2017 is likely to see a new holder of the G0BYQ Cup.

On 6m, 4m and 2m we were the highest placed local radio club, only being beaten by the large contest groups and on 70cm we narrowly missed out to Bolton who were just one place above us for leading local radio club. In 2017 there will be separate leagues for contest groups and local radio clubs which should benefit Worksop ARS.

http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfresults.pl?ContestSeries=Overall%20UKAC&year=2016

http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfresults.pl?ContestSeries=Overall%20UKAC&year=2016

Unfortunately 2017 will see some more changes to UKAC activity which will not benefit Worksop ARS. The 6m and 4m contests are moving to the second and third Thursday of each month so we are not likely to be as competitive in 2017, with fewer members able to commit to operating twice a week. However, there may be some members who were unable to participate on a Tuesday evening that may be able to participate on a Thursday evening – if this is you and you need any help with equipment, aerials or logging etc. then please speak to Martin, M0ZMF, or Steve, G0EAK. We’d love to have you as part of the team!

Call Sign 6m 4m 2m 70cm 23cm Total Overall

G0EAK 9,520 3781 10394 9783 5535 39,013 10

2E0DXK 9,926 2678 10620 11103 1532 35,859 23

M6KTP 9,744 2481 9819 6831 28,875 38

G3RCW 6,726 1753 8408 8572 1427 26,886 62

M6XAK 4,521 978 6343 6401 18,243 104

M0JAV 6,330 5367 3444 821 15,962 118

2E0HUN 1,451 3109 1936 1771 8,267 189

M0PCF 2,517 679 1543 1318 1610 7,667 179

2E0ZCB/M0YCB 2,193 2033 2260 687 7,173 209

M0PFO 1,346 270 2540 973 5,129 256

M0MCT 474 1417 888 2,779 341

M0LLW 2,703 2,703 348

M6TSS 2,662 2,662 352

2E0SNS 719 676 511 1,906 396

M0IKE 1,823 1,823 402

2E1SKY 284 808 194 488 1,774 327

G1ZIG 1,757 1,757 407

M0PJA 981 229 268 135 1,613 419

G3XXN 1225 1,225 322

M6ZCJ 573 536 12 73 1,194 380

G0PGA 954 954 481

M6GGT 196 212 379 82 869 453

M6JMF 718 718 521

M0ZMF 698 698 529

M0XYZ 667 667 532

M6ZAB 592 592 547

M0ONI 333 185 518 562

2E1EXP 143 176 17 113 60 509 504

2E0CAG 299 299 616

G0TLT 280 280 619

M6ZCA 93 78 171 654

G4ENC 79 79 691

M0HOB 70 70 697

G4WZI 47 47 709

70362 15577 63643 55044 14355 218,981

In January we were pleased to welcome 4 new members to the Club: Matt Bradbury, 2E0GMV, Paul Jones 2E0BPB, Ken Parker M6KJP and Brendan Cartwright SWL,

An overhaul of the Club’s database was begun and we introduced the Paypal facility for paying Membership subscriptions. At the beginning of this year we had 107 members (36 Foundation, 19 Intermediate and 45 Full licencees and 7 SWLs); Ladies made up 15% of the membership ; 7% of the membership was aged under 26; 28% of members were also RSGB members

John Whitworth 2E0DXK received the monthly award for good radio operation and etiquette, for January 2016

7 members who passed their Intermediate exam in December got their new call signs: (l to r): Aidan Ascroft (2E0LTV), Kevin Davies (2E0VKB), Shaun Button (2E0SNS), Chris Button (2E0ZCB), Matt Bradbury (2E0GMV), John Whitworth (2E0DXK) and Lewis Sadler (2E0YZV)

UKAC 2016

On the contesting front, having finished 2015 in style we started 2016 with a bang. Steve, G0EAK, was laid up for 3 weeks in January so everybody else rallied around, including members like Ziggy (I hate contests) G1ZIG, enticed by a new production delta beam, Chuck G0PGA on his long wire and Dave, M0IKE who submitted logs for 6m – and we achieved First place! Can we entice you to join in for 2017?

January February March April May June July August September October November

December January 2016 February March April May June July August September

In February…… We welcomed 8 new members to the Club: Josh Milner SWL, David McHugh SWL,

Mark Edge SWL, Martin Broad M6TSS, Paul Ashton SWL, Zarah Hill SWL, Natasha Morehen SWL, Tegan Garner SWL.

The Award for good radio operation and etiquette this month went to Julian

Cartwright 2E0RXN.

In March……..

On 3rd March we had a talk - Contesting Hints and Tips - delivered by Steve G0EAK

who gave an explanation of the scoring system, suggested tactics , how to log and

some cunning plans were hatched

On 10th March We welcomed 5 new members to the Club: Roy Crocker G0KAU,

Mark Hoult SWL, Chris Hughes SWL, John Jordan M0JWJ and Christian Stephenson

G7DCO

22 March was a 6m UKAC contest night and our tribute to Ziggy Hudson G1ZIG when

we mustered 22 people operating from home and out portable ‘doing it for Ziggy’

Our efforts were rewarded with first place


December January February/ March 2016 April May June July August September

14th April was an Open committee meeting and

Steve G0EAK was awarded the G0BYQ cup for his

contribution to contesting and bringing the

efforts of WARS to the notice of the wider

amateur contesting community. He wrote an

article about the 6m Ziggy tribute and Martin’s

antenna designs which was included in Radcom .

You can read the article by following this link to

the g3rcw Web site http://g3rcw.org.uk/2016/05/

We welcomed 4 new Members to the Club this month: Paul Cooper M6EYG, Ian

Darby SWL, Carl Hipkins SWL, Alfie Whitworth SWL.

On 28th April: We had a very interesting talk on Satellite Operations by Dave Ryan

M0GIW / EI4HT. His comprehensive Powerpoint presentation slides are on the WARS

Facebook Group page in the ‘Files’ section. Scroll down and click on DaveEI4HT.pptx


December January February March April 2016 May June July August September

7th May: Advanced Examination. Congratulations went to new Full licence holders Lewis

Sadler M0YZV, Matt Bradbury M0HCT, Chris Button M0YCB and Aidan Ascroft.

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8th May: Foundation Exam. Congratulations to successful new licencees Zye Hill M6ZYH,

Josh Milner M6MQN, Mark Hoult M6XMH, Mark Edge M6OME

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12th May: 2 new members were welcomed to the Club—Ray Tattershall M0MLJ (re-

joined) and Steve Baxby SWL

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The etiquette and good radio operation award for

May was awarded to Richard Hilton G4WZI . His

certificate was presented to him at National Field

Day in July

27th—30th May: Bank Holiday Weekend—Camping, Radio and Canoeing at Haxey Quays.


December January February March April May 2016 June July August September

We welcomed 1 new member to the Club this month—Matt Burge SWL

On 9th June we had a very interesting talk by Richard G0RRZ on JT65 and we

learned more about this digital mode that allows you to work around the world on

very low power. Powerpoint slides are available in the files section of the WARS

Facebook Group page.

On 16th June John Rogers M0JAV gave us an

excellent talk on Antenna modelling

23rd June: Portable in the Park. 38 members

attended another successful event with a

chance to play radio and have a BBQ.

25th June: Sherbrooke Scout Camp—GB1BDS

operating on HF and VHF as part of the weekend Scouting activities. Unfortunately

the site was poor for VHF and the weather deteriorated into a thunderstorm but the

Cubs and Scouts enjoyed themselves which was the

main thing!


December January February March April May June 2016 July August September

Plenty of young people visiting the Special Event Radio station but

poor VHF and not too many people active on the bands

unfortunately

1st—3rd July: National Field Day at Flockton with Jack M6JMF, Richard 2E0FBF, Mark M6OME, Steve G0EAK, Andrea M0LLW, Martin M0ZMF, Sue M6XAK, Alison 2E0HUN, Gary M0ONI, Fred G3XXN, Richard G4WZI, Paul M0PJA and Carol M6ZCA. A challenging weekend weather-wise in a field full of fresh cowpats but all good fun! You should try it sometime!

14th July: 3 new membership applications were approved at the monthly Committee meeting—Trevor Edwards M6TSE, Michael Carter M6DNS, Paul Staerck 2E1SKY

21st July: Former Colliery sites On The Air event. Several members went out mobile on 2m and 70cm to activate local ex colliery sites. This was the second year we have done this and we have had interest from other clubs who would like to join in future events.

The Club purchased a bargain second-hand trailer-mast (ex lighting tower) for future National Field Days and other occasions. It just needed some TLC and replacement parts but by the time Martin had finished with it, it was as good as new.


December January February March April May June July 2016 August September

Alison 2E0HUN set up for

Collieries on the Air

In August…….

Adrian Berner SWL and Daniel Oakley G8LSH and Catherine Staerk 2E1EXP became

members of the Club.

In September…... Membership was approved for 6 new members —Malcolm Jukes

M0JMJ, Martin Wells G7TNZ, Caden Fletcher SWL and William Cooper M6BDC

10th/11th September—a weekend camping at Hayton to try out the trailer mast, using

the Club call sign GX3RCW


December January February March April May June July August /September 2016

October November December January February March April May June July August

February March April May June July August September October November December

January February March April May June July August September October 2016

November December January February March April May June July August September

6th October: 70cm antenna construction night. An enjoyable night with

something useful at the end of it!

JOTA WEEKEND 14th to 16th October. On Saturday, 15th October, we had the

pleasure of welcoming Beavers, Cubs and Scouts from Bassetlaw District Scout

Association to our Clubhouse to help them celebrate Jamboree on the Air (JOTA)

2016. Using our radio equipment the youngsters had a chance to talk to folk in

various parts of the UK and into Europe, including Sweden, Austria, Italy, Brittany,

Czech Republic and Spain. They also did a little bit of direction finding outside,

learned some Morse code and how to find beacons using beam antennas…. Most

definitely some future young amateurs in the making!

27th October—By popular demand, we welcomed Paul Redfern 2E1HYI and Terry

Depledge 2E1FRW from the Retford Repeater Group for a talk on DMR radio.

Two more new members welcomed to the Club: Mark Hill 2E0MBH and David

Vickers M0AKB.

3rd November: we showed a new video presentation, recently released by the RSGB

Propagation Committee which looked at the physics behind different VHF, UHF and

microwave propagation modes. It also looked at tropospheric enhancements and

ducting, sporadic E, aurora, meteor scatter, rain scatter and much more. This was

followed by an interesting Q & A Skype session with Jim Bacon G3YLA ( some of you

may remember him as a BBC weatherman many moons ago). A first for the Club and

for Jim and it was nice to have our own meteorologist for an hour!

17th November: We had a fascinating

presentation ’Pigs can fly’ by Andrew Garratt

M0NRD, which was all about high altitude balloons

and the tracking systems and cameras used. Plus

there was a ‘live’ demo and details of a couple of

flights Andrew was involved with..

January February March April May June July August September October November 2016

December January February March April May June July August September October

November December January February March April May June July August September

Three more new members joined the Club: Gillian Blackwell SWL, Kane Swift SWL

and Scarlett Sadler SWL

3rd December: The Club ran a special event station for Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) to

promote amateur radio to young people.

10th December: Foundation exam resulting in 2 new licencees—Steve Baxby M6SYB

and Adi Berner M6VME. Well done guys! Double congratulations also to Ian Darby

M6IBN who sat his Intermediate Exam and Advanced exam on the same day and

passed both! M0 call sign to follow.

15th December: Our Christmas Party attended by 56 members

and guests. We took the opportunity at the Christmas party to award

Terry Depledge 2E1FRW the December award for his on-air

etiquette and activity from his repeater GB7RE. His efforts to

introduce and promote dmr radio to many of us has been most

welcome


December 2016 January February March April May June July August September

So—there we are. It was a great year, thank you for being

part of it!

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