All things GW4EZW
This weekend sees the annual CQWW Contest in which many thousands of amateur radio enthusiasts participate in across the globe, and is one of the busiest contests in the calendar. This year, NARS wanted to participate in memory of a much loved and respected club member, now SK, Steve Cole – GW4BLE. Steve was highly … Read more
Wonderful impromptu talk yesterday evening (19th Oct) by Dale (2W0ODS) on how to access the Yeasu Reflector he has set up with cross mode functionality i.e. all digital modes can access and communicate with all digital modes regardless of your radio. Great stuff eh! Dale has prepared a document providing instructions on how to access … Read more
Well, it really was very much a last minute thing, and so with just 24 hours notice several members of the club managed to attend the clubhouse for a few hours on Saturday afternoon to participate in the annual Railways on the Air event, organised by the Bishop Auckland Radio Amateur Club. So we managed … Read more
Mike Busson, GW8MER, gave a talk on amateur TV and started with a brief history of his own TV journey, starting in the early 1960s with experiments in Slow Scan TV while still at school. His Fast Scan TV started in the mid 1970s after joining the Newport Amateur Radio Society and then the British … Read more
The Newport Amateur Radio Society received a presentation and live demo of how to access QO100 geostationary satellite by Mike (MW1EHW). The station equipment was setup at the GW4EZW Club QTH on the evening of Thursday 14th September. Mike’s setup was a 1.05m mesh dish on a portable speaker stand with a Bulleyes LNB, Ice … Read more
Another fabulously entertaining evening last week at NARS where our very own Robert – GW0RQC – gave us the second of our two part presentation on SOTA – that of SOTA Chasing. Robert has kindly set us the presentation he prepared for the evening which can be accessed and downloaded by simply clicking on the … Read more
In the first of two consecutive weeks of NARS talks on SOTA – on Thursday 29th June, NARS welcomed Kevin Nicholls, M0KXN to tell us all about SOTA Activating – and an informative and well prepared presentation it was, too! Kevin did a wonderful job covering all aspects of SOTA: what it is all about, … Read more
Well, several club members travelled to a wonderful location in the southern Brecon Beacons aptly titled The British to participate as GW4EZW/p in the 2M Practical Wireless QSP contest. Conditions were not great for 2M propagation but we did make 28 or so QSO’s during the course of the day. Gareth (MW1DCF) provided pretty much … Read more
Wonderful presentation at club yesterday evening by Steve, GW4OGO which was all about a mode used perhaps less frequently than CW or SSB, which is that of RTTY. Steve explained how to go about setting up your radio (NARS’ IC-7300 for our demo), together with the software required to link to it to be able … Read more
On Tuesday 16th May, Newport Amateur Radio Society welcomed Fred Cirera, W6BSD all the way by Zoom from sunny California, who delivered an excellent presentation on ‘Building filters for amateur radio’. We ‘met’ Fred during the lockdowns of the recent Covid19 pandemic, when he somehow stumbled across our then regular Thursday evening zoom sessions running … Read more