Milton Keynes ARS

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Reminder of our Club Events in May, June 2021

Posted: 02 May 2021 03:03 AM PDT
https://www.mkars.org.uk/index.php/2...may-june-2021/

Just a reminder of our Club Events in May, June.

Like all of us, I hope the progress on freeing us from lockdown remains on
track and we can all meet together again soon.

We have a committee meeting in 1W May, so no Club meeting that week.
Monday 10th May sees us having a Zoom talk on chasing VHF/ UHF DX using two
new software tools – ON4KST and AirScout by Tim G6GEI. Tim will give us an
overview to the software, which is heavily used by contesters, on how to
use it to make DX contacts.

On Monday 17th May we have the next Special Interest homebrew/ constructors
group Zoom meeting where we will be focusing on soldering and SMD type
components. We hope to be also finalising and announcing a club
construction project shortly afterwards. The Zoom details will be posted
shortly.

The event for Monday 24th May is still being finalised.

Monday 7th June sees us have Mike Walker, VA3MW from Flex Radio speak to us
on ‘ An overview of the FlexRadio HF radio design and architecture, and how
it performs better than the older SuperHet design that we grew up with.

Monday 14th June we have a Digital Modes meeting night discussing the
software and use of these modes.

Further meetings will be posted as soon as they have been finalised.

All being well, field days should be possible this year. The Club intends
to operate in the SSB (4th and 5th September) and VHF (3rd and 4th July)
NFD’s. Although those dates are some way off, preparations are already
underway. Although steered by our contest team, all are welcome to join the
events as we need as many operators as well as ‘putter uppers’ and ‘taker
downers’ as possible. If there is sufficient interest, we could also put a
small team together for the CW NFD on 5/6th June. Contact Tim, G6GEI or
myself if you are interested.

Hopefully the ‘jab’ programme is getting to you all, and we can all start
meeting again. Zoom is good, and has many benefits, but it is nothing like
meeting up properly again.

Stay safe,
Phil G4FVZ