Club NewsletterVoLUME 12, IssuE 5 MnY 2004

Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club2oth Anniversary Year

Editor ial

Special pointsof interest:

o Foundation License

Course on Tiree

. 10 Pin Bowling

Results

. CQW W 2001. Cer-

tificate

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This editorial must be about

the earl-iest I have ever written

as I am doing it on the week-

end iust after our April club

night. The reason being is that

as due to work commitmentsmy normal time of writingwill

be whenJohn requires the

input. I iust can't believe that

here we are in the month of

May, where has the last four

months gone as far as I am

concerned they have just van-

ished. It is also hard to believe

that we will soon be into the

major holiday season of the

yeat, oh how time flies.

So what has happened thismonth, from the club eventsooint of view we will have hadLur 10 Pin bowling night and Iarn sure it will have been an-other good night, obviouslywith writing this early I cannotcomment on it. We will alsohave had the last of our con-struction nights for this par-ticular session and as theyhave been relatively successfirlI intend starting them offagain either in September orOctober. Lasdy a few of uswill have made a trip to Tiree,the sole purpose being formyself to teach the Founda-tion Licence. Obviously as Iwrite this it is still to happenso I hope that we have man-aged to get another eight peo-ple into Amateur Radio.

Also starting soon is the"Contesting Season", as I liketo think about it u'ith RSGBField Day (C\q, Pw QRP,

VHF Field Day and alsoIOTA from*Tiree. There hasbeen lots of talk and prcpat^-tion for Tiree, which teally hasto be done, but we must notforget about the other contestsparticulady VHF Field Day.One thing that has come outof the Tiree organisation isfinding out who is going andwho is not as this has enabledoperating rota's to be pro-duced which at the end of theday does give everyone a "playat radio" but as important, awell earned rest. The questionis who is interested and who isdefinite about taking part dur-ingVHF Field Day? Can youspare a couple of hours?\il{hatever the answers can youlet me know. This year we willbe operating on 70cms,2M,and 4M on the Saturday and6M on the Sunday, basically 3stations will be on the go. Ifyou haven't done any contest-ing why not come and give it atry you may iust like it. I doadmit it is like the "old" CWscenario you either love it orhate it. I DO LOOK FOR-WARDTOYOURRE-SPONSES.

To the furure, this month'ssees us have our annual DFnight, Friday 14,1. Starting offrom the Sh.ip Inn car park(east) at 19:00. This is a realfun night and has producedmany funny stodes ovet theyears that we have done it socome on folks come along and

ioin in I can assure you, youwill have fun. (By the wayDF'ing is not as easy as youthink).

My subiect this month is whatneeds to be done to enticeeveryone to come along to allthe events that arc organised. Iknow that there are many rea-sons why not but I also knowthat there afe many reasonswhy you should, I suppose it isabout creating something thatit is interesting. As an organ-iser I certainly struggle to tryand put on a varied club pro-gram and at times I am at agreat loss on what to do. I amalways looking for feedback orinput on what you see is goodor bad. Ok I may make deci-sions that might not please butyou can be assured whateverdecision I make it is with theCLUB in mind and not as anindividual. Why not drop me aline and tell me what you wantor do not want and I will domy best to accommodate.Remember no marter what, itis your club and what activitieswe do are up to us all. If I getno response, which is 99% ofthe case, then I will decide, soplease do not complain if it isthe wrong decision. That's itthen my moan of the montl.

That's it then a couple ofthings for you all to thinkabout and give some sort ofreply enjoy the newsletter andwe will see you all on DFnight.

BobGM4IJYZ

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Foundation Licence-The Tiree Trip

Although the actual delivering of the

Foundation Licence Course and sub-

sequent exam took place on the

weekend of the 17,h & 18,4 April

2004 the story behind it all actually

originates back to the 21" March

1997 when Tom lfylie GM4FDM

delivered a taik to the Cockenzie &

Port Seton Amateur Radio Club

about activating St l(lda, an island

which [es to the west of the Scottish

Outer Hebrides, for IOTA and

IOSA. It was this that sparked off a

few members of the radio club to do

something similar for the RSGB

IOTA contest that year. After lots of

deliberation the island of Tiree was

chosen and since then the Cockenzie

& Port Seton Amateur Radio Club

has gone back each year to take part

in the same contest and will be there

this year, all being wel,[ as they say.

For the IOTA people Tiree is EU008

and for those interested in IOSA it is

NH04.

\X4ry keep going back it is very sim-

pie, hospitaliry andagreat place to

run a contest from. The first two

years I was unable to go due to both

family and work commitments but I

certainly made my mind up I was

going the next year this was due to all

the stories that kept on being related,

not iust once but time and time

again. So annual leave was booked as

soon as I possibility could to ensure

it would happen. I remember coming

of the ferry on the Friday morning to

be met by some of the islanders say-

ing "Hi lads it must be radio time of

year","good luck for your contest",

"we'il catch up later on to see how

your doing", etc, etc. all this before

rve had even got off the pier. A cou-

ple of stories, as I see that I have

diverged well away from the original

story but I think they illustrate the

words of hospitaliry. On the first year

the contest station rvas erected about

100 yards away from the Tiree I-odge

Hotel in the sand dunes next to the

huge beach at Gott Bay. The contest

was in full swing and about22:30 in

the evening the then proprietor of

the hotel, sadly no longer with us,

carre across to the opefating tents.

Hi lads! he said, "are these botdes of

beer any good to you they are just

out ofdate by a couple ofdays and I

can't sell them", now that's a si-[y

question to ask our Iot and they were

subsequendy handed over. About an

hour later, the proprietor's daughter,

Elaine (now our host on the island)

came across with a huge tray of

chips, sausages, etc for everyone as

she thought we would be hungtl', as

we had missed the evening meal. The

cost? - absolutely nothing and no

matter what, no money would be

accepted. The same Elaine another

year about 04:00 in the morning de-

livered a full breakfast to the night-

shift operators and her comments

were, "I had to get up and make

Callum, her eldest son, his breakfast

before he \vent out to sea so I

thought I would make some extra for

you". There are m ny, many stories

to teU in fact too many to mention,

so you can see why we keep going

back vear after year.

So how did rve end up going this year

to teach the Foundation Licence,

well last year some of the group went

out a few days eady and set up the

stations for the IOTA contest and as

part of that a demonstration station

was set up using the callsign

GB2IOT to allow any of the island-

ers to come along and see rvhat ama-

teur radio is all about. other than

under the contesting banner. This

turned out to be a success as from

that our host Elaine asked about how

does one get a licence. This was duly

explained and the question then

came how do 'uve go about it. I then

made an offer that I was quite pre-

pared to come out to the island and

teach them. 'qWould you", she asked

and "yes" was my answer. I did ex-

plain though it would be early 2004

before I would manage but Elaine

said that would be ok.

I then contacted Elaine at the begin-

ning ofJanuary to see horv many

were interested and she eventually

responded that the total was eight.

All the necessary forms were filled

out, books for the course obtained

and then sent across to the island.

The duly signed forms that needed to

be signed were returned and with

them and all the subsequent required

paperwork sent to the RSGB. I must

admit the RSGB were very helpful

and prompt in returning the exam

papers as I had explained that I

needed them before leaving to go to

the island.

The day arrived to head off to Tiree,

this in itself is a journey as we live

150 miles from Oban the ferry port

and the ferry leaves at 06:00 in the

morning, so it mcans overnight trav-

elling. The group of us, Brian

MORNR (only going for the beer),

Cambell MM0DXC (main exam in-

vigilator), Ron GM4II(U (assistant

invigi-lator) and myself, Bob

GM4UYZ (the teacher) Ieft at 01 :00

and headed through to Oban. \)fle

arrived just after 04:00 at the ferry

terminal and waited in the car until

the terminal opened at04:45. Once it

opened ail our bags and a case with

all the course material were taken out

of the car and taken in. Cambell and

myself then left the others and then

parked up the car approximately 10

minutes away from the terminal away

from the "yellow lines". On return

we all bought our tickets and headed

off onto the ferry. The ferry departed

(Cantiaued on page 3)

(Continaedfnnpage )

at 06:00 from Oban, heads across the

Firth of Lome and then sails up the

Sound of Mull past Tobermory, now

made famous on BBC3 as Balamory,

then out into the Adantic Ocean

sailing past Coll and eventually affiv-

ing at Tiree at 09:30. The voyage

itselfis a very picturesque one and

one well worth doing if you have

time to spare.

On arriving at the island we were met

by one of the pupils, Eirwyn Grif-

fiths who took us to our host, Elaine

Wiliams, house where we stayed for

the duration. Typical Elaine, "you

must be starving so there are bacon

and sausage rolls ready", we tried to

tell her that we had already had a full

breakfast on tlre ferry, but it was just

a v/aste of time.

As we had arrived on the Friday and

the course not starting until the Sat-

urday moming, and after our

"second" breakfast we erected a 40M

dipole at Elaine's house and set up a

radio station in her lounge using an

FT100 and a tuner. This took us up

to just after 13:00 to compl€te, and

then we made z few contacts before

we headed of rvith Elaine to the

Tiree Learning Centre, where the

course was being held over the Satur-

dav and Sunday.

It certainly was worth the visit as the

room that Elaine thought we could

use turned out to be too small. Al-

though it seemed to be a major prob-

lem it really wasn't as we were able to

negotiate the Resources Rooms next

door, which were absolutely ideal.

The rest of the Friday was spent after

having an enor(nous meal and social-

ising in the local hotel. It w^s am^z-

ing the interest that was shown with

many people saying, "they hoped it

would all go well", "well done lads

for making the effort to come and do

this", etc.

On the Saturday moming we headed

off to the course venue to discover

that when we arrived we had only

one set ofkeys so Elaine h*d to go

back home and collect the other set.

Meanwhile we were at least able to

make a start on some of the setting

up. Elaine returned back within 15

minutes, I would make no comments

on the driving, especially on single-

ffack roads with passing places!!l!!!

I eventually got started at 09:30 with

one pupil down, as he was unable to

get across the day before from Coll.

\X/e really take things for granted on

the mainland on how easy it is get-

ting from A to B. You miss a ferry

on the islands and you have to wait

another day to get another. Eventu-

allyJohn arived when the ferry from

Coll came in about 1.5 hours late.

I spent some time later on going

through what he had missed which

allowed him to catch up. In the mid

afternoon it was the turn of the prac-

tical on-the-air sessions. This we did

with Ron GM4IKU and Brian

M0RNR using a VHF handheld back

at Elaine's whilst we used an FT100

connected to an aeial mounted on a

car outside. Glad to say that the ses-

sion went well in deed.

The next session was HF. Using

again the FT100 to an ATAS aerial

mounted on the car outside where

we made contact again with Ron and

Brian.

For this part of the exercise we were

hoping to contact some of the club

members back home but it turned

out to be unsuccessful although at

one time I did hear Landles

GM4XZZ just come out of the

noise. The band must have changed

as about an hour Ron and Brian had

ear[er contacted Willie MMjWZZ

who was with Landles. From our

perspective stations from England

were coming in at 59+ but sadly not

open to home.

Overall I was very pleased on how

they all conducted themselves on the

air. The on the air session was the

last for the day so after tidying up it

was back to our "mine hosts" where

we relaxed for a while before once

again being plied with an enonnous

meal. Finally it was once again up to

the local hotel to enjoy some local

hospital-ity, need I say more?

The Sunday was the second day of

t-he course plus the exam so once

again it was a prompt 09:30 start.

This time I was missing another pu-

pil Einryn Griffiths, as he had to

attend a Fire Training exercise up to

10:30. That is another thing about

the islands everyone does a multirude

of iobs and in Eirwyns case he is also

a fteman.It was an exercise that had

been rushed together the week be-

fore as the officer who delivers the

(Continued on page 4)

Foundation License Course

(Coninned.fron page 3)

training could only come across that

day. As I said to Eiruyn being a fire

fighter is far more important that

obtaining an amateur licence so if

you get back I will run through'uvhat

you missed before the exam. As it

turned out the exercise was at the

Aiqport a stones throw arvay and he

was back with us by 10:00. The

course continued and completed

before stoppingfor a quick lunch.

After the lunch there was chance for

evefyone to run thfough a couple of

dummy papers to give them chance

to get a feel for the qpe of questions

that would be asked. The results

',vere mixed with the odd failure by

one question so all rvas looking good.

The time for the exam came and I

handed over to Cambeli MMODXC

and Ron GM4IKU to carry out all

the necessary work.

Now came the tense part the mark-

ing off the papers where the resuits

were from a just pass to an excellent

pass. Those who had just passed

r.vere disappointed but as I said to

them a pass is a pass and it is that

what counts.

So congratulations go to Elaine $fiI-

liams, her sons Aran and Callum

Williams, Eirwyn Griffiths, Teatlach

McDonald, and the boys John Is-

accson, Jamie Beese and lasdyJoseph

!(illiams. This now increases the

island amateur populadon to nine

and I feel as well it isn't going to be

the last.

After the course and everyone had

gone we tidied up and when rve left

Elaine took us on a tour of round

Tiree delivering a very interesting and

informative history lesson of the

island. The evening we all went to

the hotel and had a meal before retir-

ing to the bar for our last night of

hospitality.

Monday came and it rvas time to

leave the island and say our goodbyes

to our host Elaine as she headed off

to work. Eirwyn picked us up and

delivered us to the ferry terminal to

catch the 12:1.5 ferry back to Oban.

After a very relaxing sail we arrived

back in Oban at 16:30, picked up the

car md then made our way home

arriving at20:30, all ready for a ear\

night in bed.

As for the weekend as well as being

enjoyable and a bundle oflaughs it

was successful from an amateur radio

point of view. I can see us going

back ro deliver another training

course, do rve need persuaded well

the short answer is a defrnite no, but

before that we will be back in July for

the RSGB IOTA contest so look out

for GM2T on IOTA EU008 or

IOSA NH04. See you all then on the

air.

Bob GM4L[12

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Foundation License Course

1O Pin Bowling Night

On Saturday 24'n ApiI we held our10 Pin Bowling Night at the Mega-bowl in I(nnaird Park, Edinburghstarting at 20:00. In total 30 peopleturned up from the original 36 whosaid they were attending. The sixwho couldn't come along were dueto various reasons but sadly as theyhad paid their money it became non-refundable. Any way for those takingpart it certainly turned out to be an-other fun night. !7e had obtained apackage that gave us 2 games, shoehire, a drink up to the valte of f,3, adisposable camera for each lane, awinners certificate and a booby prizecertificate (overall games) and a bot-de of bubbly for the overall winner.

Congranrlations to all the prize win-ners and thanks to everyone for mak-ing it a real good fun night.

For interest the scoring achieved is asfollows:

Bob GM4llYZ

Lane Name ScoteGame 1

ScoteGame 2

Lane

1 Bob GM4UYZ 97 62 159

1 Iftis 115 100 215

1 Vera 81 85 166

I Cambell MM0DXC 109 176 225

I Ron GM4IKU 68 '72 141

2 Yvonne 84 62 146

2 Claire 90 87 177

2 EIys;_ 89 103 792

t Jennie 102 109 211

2 Fred GM0ALS 82 94 176

3 I(atie t42 97 239

3 John MM0JXI 86 t17 203

3 Ann 81 76 l f /

3 Christopher MM3FZF 92 85 177

3 Jim GMTLLSi 1.17 83 200

4 Claire [MM3SLK) 87 74 161

4 Lisa 118 o? 21.r

4 John McRae 108 127 235

4 ColinMM3ENW 104 104 208

5 Peter MM3FBC 96 110 206

5 Mark 82 101 183

5 T-.rzZMIGLD 91 80 171

5 Jack MM3JTA 65 80 145

5 Paul2MlIBE 89 136 225

5 ZoeMM3ZDG 66 81 147

6 Caroline 2M1HVR 94 89 183

6 Luke 106 97 203

6 Stuart GMTDRY 128 83 211

6 Aileen 84 104 188

6 Ricky GM1PLY 89 120 209

Position Game 1 Game 2 Overall

Fitst Katie Paul 2M1IBE Katie

Second Sruart GMTDRY John McRae John McRae

Last Jack MM3JTA Yvonne Ron GM4II(U

Best Gitl/Boy Luke EIyse Luke

DF Hunt Rules

DATE Fnday 14May 2004

TIME Meet at 6:30pm for a briefing prior to a 7:00pm start

PLACE The "Old Ship Inn" car park (bar €nffance side), Port Seton

Grid ref. NT408 759

Ordnance Survey Lzndr"anger map no. 66

ENTRY FEE d1:00 per person, to be donated to the British Heart Foundation

FREQUENCY 1,45.275 MHz, FM, verticai polarisation

CALLSIGN Gm-liku/m

HUNT AREA The fox will be located within the area or Ordnance Survey Landranger map no. 66 bounded by

the Firth of Forth to the north, the edge of OS Landranger map no. 66 to the east, the line join-

rng grid ref. NT400700 and NT400760 to the west. A small map showing this area vrill be issued

to all comoetitors at the start.

TX TIMES Transmissions by the fox will be 30 seconds every 5 minutes. The flrst transmission beginning at

7:00pm, following transmission times will be 7:05pm, 7:10pm.etc.

The final transmission wili be at 8:45pm and will reveal the location of the fox and that of the

post hunt meeting.

ACCESS The fox will be in a position which is accessible by car (4wd not necessary!)

TX BAN No transmissions, other than those of the fox, shouid be made on the hunt frequency at any time

during the event

VACATE Once a team has found the fox they should leave the immediate zreaand should not transmit on

any frequency while in the vicinity of the fox

EQUIPMENT Only one set of Direction Finding equipment is to be used per te m ^t

any one time.

HUNTING During the hunt please be considerate to other road users when choosing your stopping points.

Any teams found to be breaking the road speed limits tn any arca will be disqualified immediately.

Similarly, any teams found to be breaking any of the above rules will be disquaLified

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Events Column

Forthcoming events from May until which are ideal for learning more Ron GM4II{U

August are shown below. about our hobby as well as enjoying

These evenrs are provided for your the company of like minded friends'

enjoyment and do take a lot of orga- As usual any further evenrs for inclu- l::: "o*d""s are highlighted in

nizing on your behalf. It's a great sion in this page can be forwarded to gre)-l

shame that more club members are me at GN{'{i{t.rGLTlS(--\L.l.f-(l,UK

not in evidence on these nights

Date Time Event Contact

07-MAY-04 7Pr,t rrLL LATE CPSARC Club Nishc Thotntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 0187s 811723

09 M,\Y 04 11ArV Irvine Rally, N{agnum Centre, Irvine

14-MAY-04 6.30puFirst 2m DF Hunt

Meet in the OLD SHIP INN car PatkRon GM4II{U 01875 811000

04JUNE 04 TPIVI TILL LATECPSARC Normal club niEht in the Thorntree Inn Port

SetonBob GM4UYZ 01875 811.723

12JUNE 04Port Seton Gaia Day

Demonstration Station

13JUNE 04 9tuv Practical Wireless 144 M|n QRP Contest Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

19120 JuNn 04 TBAMuseums on the Ait S/eekend

Museum of Flight East FottuneBob GM4UYZ 07875 811723

20JuNe 04 10:304-r.t Livingston & District ARS Open Day &Junk Sale

23JUNE 04 TBA CPSARC 20m Contest Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811.723

]2JULY 04 TPluI TILL LATE CPSARC Club Niehc Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811.723

03JLIIJ 04 End of Club 20Year Compeutron

03 JULY 04 RSGB Fieid Day Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

10JULY 04 GB2MOF Museum of FLisht Annual Air Show Bob GM4UYZ 01.875 81.1723

25JULY 04 13:00 t-oc.tt, RSGB IOTA CONTEST ftom TIREE Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

06 Auc 04 7PM TILL LATE CPSARC Club Nieht in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01.875 81.1723

13 Auc 04 6:3Opv AnnualJunk Night Bob GM4UYZ 01875 81.1723

21. Auc 04International Lighthouses Weekend

Bams Ness GB2LBNBob GNI4IIYZ 01875 711723

Colin Gajewski MN{3ENM asks - Any suggestions?

Do you think there's anyone in the 73 de mm3enm

club who is interested in learning C\f?

I'm bashing awal- ^t

it, but some kind

of group practice wouid be a lot better.

If you're interested in joining Colin

then get in touch with him at

gaj ewski@btopenwodd. com

VoLUME 12, Issue 5 Pnce 9

Contest Calendar

General Notes !

The club or its members plan to be actir.'e in those events shorvn as bold below.

Full event rules are available an the internet as follows;

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Links to most of the other events, or their rule s, can be found on the SNI3CER Contest Web Page under Calendar

2004. Start at 1.t.!if,i, :,,i r' r.. .-:ti.r.l.,t-.:.......rt.ii.r!,,..i... and use the appropriate links to find the info ,vou require.

Notes & InfoDuration

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Start

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CQW\W\flPX ClW Contest29 NIay 04

1.8-28 NIhzRSGB Nadonal Field Dav05 June 04

07 June 04

Club Championships16June 04

RSGB SON'IHz Trophy19 Jun 04

80m Club Championships

744Mhz NOTETHENEWDATEPractical Wireless 744Mlrz QRP Contest

RSGB VHF Field Day

80m Club Championships05 Ju\. 04

80m Club Championships14July 04

80m Club ChampionshipsZ2July 04

RSGB IOTA Contest

RSGB 144N'IHz Low Por.ver

3.5 - 28 MhzRSGB SSB Field Day

21 -28Mhz Contest17 Oct 04

RSGB 144MHz AFS Contest

RSGB Christmas Cumulatives

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Information

The Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club was

formed by Bob Glasgow GI{4AYZ in 1984, to help the

local amateurs get to know each othet.

Numbers have incteased steadilv over the yeafs and

now average about 20.

Far from being iust alocal club we have members com-

ing from the Borders, Dumfries, Strathclyde and Fife.

The Club meets on the {irst Friday of every month

(Second Friday ofJanuary) in the lounge ofthe Thorn-

ttee Inn on the old Cockenzie High Street from 7pm till

late.

The Club is run in a very informal way, there are no

fees, no real committee structure, iust a gtoup of like

minded people doing something they enioy!

This does not mean that we dontt do anything, we en-

tet (and win!) contests, train newcomers, hold talks and

video nights and hold a popular annualJunk Sale. Our

newsletter has won the PW Spotlight competition on

several occasions.

The Club supports the British Heart Foundation in

memory of a member who died ftom heart disease by

donating the profits from events we hold, we have

taised over f,9,436 since 1994.

The Club is affiliated to the Radio Society of Great Brit-

ain and holds the callsigns MM0CPS and GM2T which

are used for out contest and special event entries,

We have our own internet domain wwvr.cpsarc.com

and club members carr get their own

'callsign@cpsarc.com' email addresses. The club also

has a Yahoo! Group which is used to manage a mailing

list.

(see http: / / groups.yahoo. com/ gtoup / cpsarc)

Contacts

General Correspondence, Novice Training, Contest entries

Bob Glasgow gm 4wyz@cpsaxc.com

IIF Contestsr 5wpm Morse Class

Cambell Stevenson mm0dxc@cpsarc.com

VHF Contests

Colin Smith gm0cln@cpsarc.com

Newsletter, lfeb Site, email admin

John Innes mm0jxi@cpsarc.com

,ililCockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club20th Anniversary Year