Whitton Amateur Radio Group - News

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Heathfield Library

Please read the attached letter for further details about the relocation of the library.

New QSL Card Design

The first draft of our New QSL card.



CQ WW SSB 2007 Result for M2W


The results have been published and without further ado the attached image should attest to how Whitton Amateur Radio Group using M2W did.

We entered as a Multi-Two entry. This meant we could have 2 radios working the bands for full 48 hours. The 2nd stations was not just for spotting multipliers.

We came 1st in England as a Multi-Two station with 1,733,312 points.

Thank You to all who operated and worked us, and whilst we didn't put an entry in for 2008, hopefully we will be back with vigor to put on a superb entry in 2009.

EU-123 ARRAN



The Middlesex DX Group are getting ready to Embark on their trip to The Isle Of Arran EU-123. The group will be active from the 4th Of October till the 10th of October.
The Isle of Arran, Scotland is one of the most southerly Scottish island and sits in the Firth of Clyde between Ayrshire and Kintyre. Arran is 19 miles long by 10 miles wide but has a remarkable diversity of landscapes and seascapes. (www.visitarran.net)
Members going are Simon 2E0VAG, Kevin G1KAW, John G0KLX, Carl 2E1IDC & Jason M1PRO.

The group will be active from 160m to 70cms and will be doing some FSK on 2 metre's and EME and will be activating some SOTA summits with the call MS0MDG/P. It is also hoped that they will have Echolink operational which will enable contact back to West London.

The station will consist of the Icom IC-746Pro HF/6/2m Radio from the Whitton Amateur Radio Group and for antennas they have planned the following;
  • 5BTV and Dipoles for 40 and 80m, on 6m a 5 element tonna
  • 2 metre a 2 x 17 elements tonna Stacked
  • 70cms they are hoping to have 2 x 21 element tonna's
"Hopefully weather permitting we will work you while we are away."

Please qsl via Buro or Direct to Simon 2E0VAG...

The Whitton Amateur Radio Group wishes the DXpedition the Best of Luck and hope they have a safe journey to and from the Island.
Club Members:- Remember there is Garo's prize for most contacts
(1 contact max per Band & per mode)

"We are back, but I have been a bit ill the last couple of days. RF Poisioning???.
I've uploaded some photo's. Hope you like and see you down the club...
73's Simon de 2E0VAG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86971542@N00/"

Pumping Stations on the Air – Kew Pumping Station - GB0KEW Year 2

GB0KEW Licence holder for the weekend David Bowman G0MRF

Bank Holiday weekend in August 2008

Sunday 24th & Monday 25th - 10am - 5pm

Kew Bridge Steam Museum - http://www.kbsm.org this year (as last) welcomed the radio club to demonstrate amateur radio to the public and for this to be accomplished Kew kindly gave us open access to the museum to install the station and the antenna using the main feature of the museum the Water Tower.

The Museum opened in 1975, and is housed in a unique collection of listed buildings, some of which are let to local craftspeople. The Victorian brick tower stands 197 feet tall. The site was originally a pumping station, delivering water to West London.


As a result over the weekend using HF 274 countries where worked on HF

The GB0KEW station comprised of an Icon PRO 3 into IC2KL producing 300w into a full size G5RV. The G5RV was 100 feet at its centre with one end being 159 feet higher using the water tower for support.

Kew provided us with an excellent location within the main building which gave us the opportunity to promote our hobby and the radio club.


View from the top of the tower at Kew Bridge Steam Museum looking East along the Thames.

Throughout the day we were able to demonstrate our radio station using Single Side Band and Morse code, the latter attracting the public in considerable numbers.
We was very pleased to make contact with other GB special event stations operating for Pumping Stations on the Air and we hope they enjoyed the weekend as much as we did.

GB0CPE
GB5RSR
GB2WZ
MX0ERG

The 274 Stations we contacted over the two days summonses into the following Countries;

AUSTRIA 2
BALEARIC ISL 2
BELARUS 2
BELGIUM 1
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 2
BULGARIA 2
CANADA 1
CZECH REP. 1
DENMARK 5
ENGLAND 44
FRANCE 4
GERMANY 32
HUNGARY 2
IRELAND 4
ITALY 2
LATVIA 1
MALTA 1
NETHERLANDS`12
NORTHERN IRELAND 13
NORWAY 2
POLAND 2
PORTUGAL 1
ROMANIA 1
RUSSIA (EUROPEAN) 4
SCOTLAND 7
SLOVAK REP. 2
SLOVENIA 2
SPAIN 5
SWEDEN 7
SWITZERLAND 3
TURKEY 1
UKRAINE 4
USA 6
WALES 5

A great weekend for the club members and its fingers crossed that Mick G1WIA can convince Kew for us to return next year for KEW3.

For those around the world who called us we would like to ‘thank you’ and your QSL will be displayed for the public to see at Kew3 as we displayed last years QSL cards.