Archive for May, 2010

  • Successful NWRS Foundation Licence Course

    Successful NWRS Foundation Licence Course

      Well done to all five canditates who took part in the very first foundation licence training course and subsequent foundation examination at the new Tan Lan club house. The standard was extremely high with three candidates acheiving a result of 23/25 and the remaining two acheiving 25/25. Congratulations to MW6ECB Emily, MW6CLJ Ceri, MW6BAS Beth, MW6TAK Chris  and [...]

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  • What about the magic band?

    What about the magic band?

    6 meters (50Mhz) isn’t a band that many foundation licensees seem to try out, which is a shame as during the summer time the band regularly opens up into Central Europe, with 10W getting you well over 1000 miles. Something which I discovered today. I tend only to work 2/70 FM from my home QTH leaving [...]

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  • Tan Lan Fun Day

    Tan Lan Fun Day

    Sunday 30th May will see the usual club suspects run GW0NWR at the Tan Lan Fun Day on the sports field adjacent to the club itself. We will operate from the mobile shack covering as many bands as we possibly can. All club members are welcome to attend and refreshments are provided throughout the day. [...]

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  • Planned SOTA Activation 31st May 2010

    Planned SOTA Activation 31st May 2010

    On Monday the 31st of May 2010, club members will be activating the SOTA summit of  Tal Y Fan, which is located at the northern end of Snowdonia National Park. We will start the walk to the summit at 10:00am, and will be set up and ready to call CQ at 11:00am. A map to the parking location is [...]

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  • SOTA ACTIVATION 16/05/10 GW/NW-053 Moel Gyw

    SOTA ACTIVATION 16/05/10 GW/NW-053 Moel Gyw

    Karl MW6CSS has Activated Moel Gyw today (16/5/2010) and has submitted a report which follows………. 16/05/10 GW/NW-053 Moel Gyw  We left the house around 9:30 this morning to arrive at the summit in time for the 10:00 (UTC) start I had planned. We used the car park at the motel on the opposite side of [...]

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  • GG100GGC Girl Guiding Caernarfonshire Special Event Station

    GG100GGC Girl Guiding Caernarfonshire Special Event Station

    Saturday 15th May saw NWRS members at Felin Bach, Caeathro, Caernarfon where we ran a special event station for Caernarfonshire Girl Guides at thier summer county camp. The activities started at 2pm and ran through to around 5.30pm. Ofcom granted the callsign GG100GGC, GGC marking Girl Guiding Caernarfonshire. We ran 2 HF ssb stations, one using 2 [...]

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  • RSGB 2m Contest

    RSGB 2m Contest

    On Tuesday 4th May, NWRS equipment officer Karl Ltham MW6CSS travelled to a summit near Llangollen with his Yaesu 857 and a 4ele beam. Karl was soon on the air and racking up contacts on SSB. By 8pm he had worked G8JGO/P in IO93GI @ 121km, G0EHV in IO84XT @ 221km and G0XDI/P in JO01KJ @323km. [...]

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