on the 22nd August. I am sure you will go along with me and wish them all the best. The Club June 20M contest has been a complete waste of time as only two people really took part. Honestly what do I have to do for you all to take part? I really wish I knew. The same old reply seems to be “I can’t be bothered” basically apa-thy rules and I am not just talking about the Contest as it applies all around. How would you feel if I sat back and took the same ap-proach, I honestly really don’t think you would care? From this side of the fence it really gets me down and I wonder why I do make an effort at all so come on, you want a radio club so why not support it or I might just give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy club night, and come along to Junk Night and Lighthouses Weekend. See you all then. Bob GM4UYZ

new site and what a fantas-tic site it was plus condi-tions were exceptionally good which helped even more. I must admit the farmer and his wife could not have been any more encouraging and helpful to the extent we went clay pigeon shooting at the end of the contest. Read all about it in the full report in the newsletter. By the time this is read then the IOTA contest from TIREE will again be history. No doubt there will be many tales to tell. To the future, well the ma-jor event is our Junk Night on the 12th August. I am again looking for raffle and food donations so if you can help I really would appreciate it. Let’s hope is once again a resounding success as it has been in previous years. Also we have Lighthouses Weekend on the 20th & 21st August once again at Barns Ness so I hope you will all come along and take part and have what is a real fun weekend. I am starting my winter sessions of Foundation and Intermediate training on 27th August with a Founda-tion Course. Before then I have one person sitting the Intermediate Exam on the 15th August and 5 people taking the Advanced Exam

I am writing this editorial just after what I think will have been our summer, a few glorious days of sun-shine; we live in hope that it will be like that when we are on Tiree or at any of our other out door events. Ok then what have we been doing this month? We had a later club night due to VHF Field Day but regard-ing numbers attending it didn’t make much of a difference. Where have you all gone and why are you not coming along on club nights may I ask? We took part in the RSGB VHF Field Day from a new site near Castle Douglas in Dumfries & Galloway. Over the years I have fought hard to keep the event at our normal site at Mainslaughter to allow people to come along. This year, when it was sug-gested we change the loca-tion, although personally in favour of it, I made the usual comments about why we shouldn’t move. The answer I got from eve-ryone was “well it has only been those who wanted to take part that came any way”, and on reflection it was true, yes we got the very odd visitor but not enough to justify my argu-ment. Anyway we went to our

Editorial

Inside this issue:

CPSARC 20m results 2

Junk Night 3

Test your knowledge 4

Contest Calendar 5

Mars approach 6

VHF Field Day report 7

RSGB QSL Managers 10

Event Column 11

Special points of interest:

• VHF Field Day report

• Junk Night

• Good advice on emergency contacts

• See MM0DXC operating in a VHF contest!

August 2005

Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club

Volume 13, Issue 8

Club Newsletter

Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ

CPSARC 20m Contest Results

Club Newsletter Page 2

This year the contest was run on Wednesday evening the 22nd June between 19:00 and 22:00BST with this year the weather being really nice. The contest rules again were slightly changed this year to accommodate CW plus also help the Foundation and Intermediate Licences the possibility of the chance for more QSO’s. This year the band was so-so and most contacts hard to work, still myself I managed two new countries from home. Due to work commitments I didn’t have time to go out port-able so hence working from home. A total of 2 club callsigns were really active, Ron GM0NTL and I with Gavin GM4GVJ popping on at the end to give me a contact. I must admit I am really disappointed at the lack of taking part, we are all supposed to be radio amateurs, we or most of us have HF equipment and the capability of working 20M so where were you. As much as we call it a contest it is

really all about getting on the air for a few hours, submitting your log and well just see how good you have done. I’ll even score it all for you, but no you all don’t seem interested, I give up as I don’t know what needs to be done to encourage you all. I assume you just could-n’t be bothered! Well done to Ron in winning this years contest plus coming on and taking part To next year then hopefully more of you will come on the air Bob GM4UYZ The results are as follows:

Pos Callsign QSO’s DX QSO’s Club QSO’s Points

1 GM0NTL 19 16 1 200

2 GM4UYZ 12 11 2 138

3 GM4VJV 1 1 1 14

Cockenzie and Port Seton Amateur Radio Club GM2T

RSGB Islands on the Air Contest. Saturday 30th July to Sunday 31st July 2005.

CPSARC will once again operate from the Isle of Tiree (IOTA EU-008, IOSA NH04, WAB

NM04), the most westerly of Scotland’s Inner Hebridean Islands, during the RSGB IOTA (Islands on the Air) Contest which runs from 12:00UTC 30th July until 12:00UTC 31st July

2005, using the clubs special contest call sign GM2T

This years team consists of :- Cambell MM0DXC, Bob GM4UYZ, John MM0JXI, Brian M0RNR, Inness GM4VJV, Landles GM4XZZ, Iain MM1CPP, Norman GM4IUS,

Alan 2M0DXC, Willie MM0WZZ, Gareth M3INO, and Gordon MM3HJZ For QSL information visit www.qrz.com/gm2t

or QSL via Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ

We look forward to working you from the Island 73’s de M0RNR Brian

For further press details contact Brian Pickup M0RNR@cpsarc.com

Make some space in that junk box!

Volume 13, Issue 8 Page 3

REMINDER, REMINDER, REMINDER

JUNK NIGHT FRIDAY 12th AUGUST 2005

Bring along your own “junk” and sell it yourself. Tables on a First Come, First Served Basis

Time: 1830 till 2200 Location: Cockenzie & Port Seton Community Centre

(Main Hall) Disabled access available Entry: £1 ALL PERSONS

(Money donated to the British Heart Foundation)

Raffle @ 21:00, Food & Drink Available

If any one would like to donate any prizes for the raffle or food towards the catering it will be more than appreciated.

Answers from July 2005 newsletter “Test Your Knowledge”. 1d, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5a, 6c, 7b, 8b, 9c, 10a 1. As well as listening on the fre-quency before making a CQ call, it is also desirable to a. Note the frequency in the station

log. b. Announce you are going to make a

CQ call. c. Ask if the frequency is in use. d. Check other bands. 2. To access a repeater, the trans-mitter must a. Transmit and receive on the same

frequency. b. Have the repeater “frequency

offset” turned ON and the “repeater tone” turned OFF.

c. Have the “repeater tone” turned ON and the “repeater offset” turned OFF

d. Have the “repeater tone” and “repeater offset” turned ON.

3. An external transmitting antenna should be a. Omni-directional b. Mounted out of reach. c. Suitably waterproofed d. Mounted horizontally 4. In the event of a person receiving an electric shock, the FIRST action is to a. Switch off the power. b. Earth the source of the power. c. Ask the casualty if they are OK. d. Pull the casualty away from the

source of the power. 5. A ladder should always be a. Used only when vertical b. Set at an angle of 45 degrees c. Inspected for damage after it has

been used d. Secured at the top or held at the

bottom

6. A Residual Current Device (RCD) a. Gives better protection than a

fused system b. Does not protect as well as a

fused system c. Helps to conserve electricity d. Reduces the possibility of mains

borne TVI 7. The purpose of the flux found in cored solders is to a. Form a protective coating over

the completed joint b. Cool the solder so that it sets

quickly c. Help the solder to flow over the

surfaces to be joined d. Prevent corrosion of the soldering

iron bit 8. What is the value of a resistor coloured green, green, gold a. 5.5R b. 55R c. 555R d. 5k5R 9. Which one of the following may be used to measure accurately the fre-quency of a transmitter that covers the whole of the 3.5 to 3.8MHz band? a. SWR meter b. Digital frequency meter c. Absorption-type frequency meter d. Dip oscillator 10. Which one of the following har-monics from a 2 metre amateur trans-mitter would fall in the TV band 471.25MHz to 853.25MHz a. 2nd harmonic b. 3rd harmonic c. 5th harmonic d. 7th harmonic

Test Your Knowledge

How good is your Amateur Radio

Knowledge?

Club Newsletter Page 4

Date Start

(UTC) Dur

Hours Contest Notes & Info

02 Jul 05 14:00 24 VHF FIELD DAY

03 Jul 05 11:00 4 144 MHz Backpackers Contest

17 Jul 05 11:00 4 144MHz Backpackers Contest

30 Jul 05 12:00 24 RSGB IOTA CONTEST

Club will be taking part from Tiree GM2T

06 Aug 05 14:00 6 144 MHz Low Power Contest

07 Aug 05 08:00 4 432 MHz Low Power Contest

21-Aug-05 09:00 6 70MHz Trophy Contest

03-Sep-05 14:00 24 144MHz Trophy Contest

04-Sep-05 11:00 4 144MHz Backpackers Contest

01 Oct 05 07:00 12 RSGB 21/28 Mhz Contest SSB

16-Oct-05 07:00 12 RSGB 21 / 28MHz Contest CW

29 Oct 05 00:00 48 CQWW DX SSB Contest

12-Nov-05 20:00 3 RSGB Club Calls Contest

19-Nov-05 21:00 4 RSGB 2nd 1.8MHz Contest

26-Nov-05 00:00 48 CQWW DX CW Contest

General Notes : The club or its members plan/hope to be active in those events shown as bold above.

Full Event Rules Are Available On The Internet As Follows : RSGB HF : http://www.contesting.co.uk/hfcc/calendar.shtml RSGB VHF : http://www.blacksheep.org/vhfcc/index.html ARRL : http://www.arrl.org/contests/ CQ WPX : http://home.woh.rr.com/wpx/ CQWW : http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cqwwhome.html

Links to most of the other events, or their rules, can be found on the SM3CER Contest Web Page Start at http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ and use the appropriate links to find the info you require.

Contest Calendar

Volume 13, Issue 8 Page 5

the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no hu-man being has seen in re-corded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progres-sively brighter and brighter throughout the month. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN

Thanks to my colleague Chris Scofield for this arti-cle. The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encoun-ter that will culminate in the closest approach be-tween the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astrono-mers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years

before it happens again. The encounter will culmi-nate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. and reach its azi-muth at about 3 a.m. By the end of August when

Mars closest approach

Sound advice for your phone

Club Newsletter Page 6

Hello All Some sound advice:- Following the disaster in London . . East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word " ICE " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc. More details on the following links http://www.icecontact.com and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4667193.stm Regards Jim Burke Fife RAYNET

Sound advice

where we met the farmer and were shown to our hill-top vantage point. Fortu-nately we were able to use the best location for our antennas (on top of the hill) with the caravan close by and the tents slightly over the crest of the hill to pro-tect them from the wind. With the caravan and tower positioned it was all hands on deck and we set about assembling antennas and masts. By the end of the evening the 50MHz system of 2 x 5ele yagis was com-plete and on the tower and the other antennas were ready to go in the morning. We were a little dismayed, however, when a New Zea-land flag appeared at the top of the tower (courtesy of Geoff – guess where he originally comes from!). Calm was soon returned though, as after consider-able exchanges of opinions it was joined by a saltire… with the saltire on top!! I left at about 10.30pm with GM0BWU and the others settled in for the night with their beer! Everyone was up bright and early on Saturday morning and began final preparations on site. Cam-bell and John came to Cas-tle Douglas where we had arranged to pick up the generator we were hiring. We paid a quick visit to the local supermarket for sup-plies, got the generator and returned to Barlocco to join the others. Work continued with a quick break for lunch at the appropriate time. Geoff MM5AHO had offered to be the team cook for the weekend and he did a fan-

(Continued on page 8)

M M 0 Clay Pigeon Shooting / Portable I bet you are all wondering why I’m talking about Clay Pigeon Shooting. Well, read on and you will find out! There have been various efforts over the years to persuade Bob to move away from Mainslaughter Law for some contests. We have known that better VHF sites exist within rea-sonable travelling distance so it was decided that this would be the year for us to try one. Earlier in the year visits by Colin GM0CLN (on 16th April) and John MM0CCC (on 8th May) assessed a number of po-tential sites in Dumfries & Galloway. The sites were all in an area near the town of Dundrennan. They all had a fantastic VHF takeoff and a great view looking out over the Solway Firth towards Cumbria and the Isle of Man. Eventually after many long discussions and a lot of time looking at maps and site photos we picked Barlocco Farm as the one we would use. The locator there is IO84BT, the same as our previous site in the area at Shawhill Farm. Just in front of Barlocco Farm is a raised area of ground which would be home to our stations. From East almost all the way (through South) to West the ground slopes away gently before reaching the top of some 100ft high cliffs which drop to the sea so there is nothing to stop our signals! With the site chosen and registered the usual pre-contest plans swung into action, checking equip-

ment, making/testing an-tennas, towing arrange-ments, accommodation, operators, food and power sources. In the past we have encountered generator problems when using am-plifiers so in an attempt to prevent this we made sure we had adequate capacity in the ones we would use. This involved taking three with us and hiring one lo-cally. Due to the remote (from East Lothian) contest site it was decided that eve-ryone would travel on Fri-day 1st July so as to allow enough setup time. This is why the July club night was postponed for a week. Eventually the day came and we all set off with cars, trailers and caravans fully laden. The operating team was to be as follows…. John MM0CCC, Cambell MM0DXC, Colin GM0RLZ, Bob GM4UYZ, Alan MM3SLK, Geoff MM5AHO and Colin GM0CLN. I was first on the road due to my early finish from work on a Fri-day, Geoff MM5AHO left from his work (which on that particular day he had arranged to be in Cumber-nauld rather than some-where in Moray!!) to head South and everyone else left in convoy from East Lothian. By the time I was at GM0BWU’s QTH in Castle Douglas the oth-ers were having a rendez-vous in Moffat from where they would proceed shortly afterwards. By 7.30pm another meeting took place in Castle Douglas and the main party were joined by myself and Bob GM0BWU as they stopped to pick up beer and chips! Then it was off to the contest site

VHF Fields Day report

VHF National Field Day

Volume 13, Issue 8 Page 7

tastic job, keeping us well supplied with a variety of tasty well filled rolls and fried food. It has to be said that he had less than ideal conditions to work in. All food was prepared outdoors and, for at least part of the time, in a force 4 or 5 gale! To quote a team member “first class rolls”, well done Geoff! With antennas for 6m, 2m and 70cm ready we finalised the shack layout and set up the rest of the equipment. It was around now that we had our first failure of the week-end. The amplifier we had planned to use on 6m gave up (with a suspected faulty vacuum relay). Fortunately we had another, modified, amplifier with us which was intended for 4m on the Sun-day. Colin GM0RLZ set about undoing the modifica-tion to return it to the origi-nal 6m configuration and with less than half an hour to go we were ready. Earlier monitoring of the bands had shown sporadic-E on 6m, a little Sporadic-E to Spain on 2m and tropo on both 2m and 70cm to Spain. It therefore came as no sur-prise when the contest started that we had some decent DX to be worked. The first hour brought patchy E’s to Yugoslavia on 6m, tropo to Spain and France on 2m and tropo to Spain on 70cm (4m starts on Sunday morning). It was so good that MM0DXC was even spotted on 70cm, dur-ing which time he worked Spain and had the audacity to pass the EA1 to 6m. Unfortunately the 6m QSO failed as tropo conditions

were much better on the higher bands and there was no Sporadic-E to Spain at that time on 6m. The re-mainder of Saturday saw a good spread of activity on all bands. The patchy E’s on 6m lasted well and pro-vided our last sporadic-E QSO at 9pm. On 2m the tropo to Spain eventually gave way and our last EA contact was just after 8pm. However, we continued to get some good DX into France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands for the remainder of the event on that band. Finally, on 432MHz, conditions tailed off a bit quicker with the EA tropo only lasting a couple of hours. There was still enhanced propagation to Southern G though and we were heading for a good score on 70cm for a change. One of our main problems this year was the weather. Although it was mainly dry and, in fact, very sunny at times, the wind picked up considerably as the contest progressed. As a result we were very reluctant to take down the 6m antennas in the dark on Saturday night. Instead we just secured the guy ropes, lowered the flags (to reduce wind drag) and battoned down the hatches for the night. Late on Saturday evening our luck changed for the worse again. When the night shift were getting ready to start their shift we moved 2m and 70cm onto the same generator and shut down the others. Sometime soon after that both the 70cm and 2m amplifiers failed (blown valves and logic fault respectively we think!). We are still uncer-

tain as to whether there is a link here but we had to make do regardless. With no further standby amps, both stations were down to only 50W and that hit us hard. Just how hard will become apparent when the final results are published. While talking of generators it is worthwhile mentioning that this year we had lots! We had one for each ampli-fier and another just to run the caravan. This was an attempt to prevent the prob-lems we have had in the past with generators being unable to cope with surges in de-mand as amplifiers start to transmit. This year because of the higher supply capac-ity we had no generator problems and plenty of fuel to go round. Early on Sunday morning work began getting 4m ready to go. The intention had been to use 2 x 8 ele yagis on this band but with such a strong wind we de-cided to take the safe option and used only one. The 50MHz antennas were duly lowered and removed and the single 70MHz yagi was fitted in their place. We also added vertical and horizon-tal bracing ropes to prevent the antenna moving around too much in the wind. Upon completing that task, Colin GM0RLZ set about re-doing the amplifier modi-fication he had to undo for 50MHz the day before. The job was soon complete and an otherwise trouble free run on 4m began on time. Late Sunday morning we had a slight boost when GM0BWU brought his IC746 for us to use on 144MHz. This meant we

(Continued from page 7)

(Continued on page 9)

VHF National Field Day 2005

Club Newsletter Page 8

VHF National Field Day

Volume 13, Issue 8 Page 9

had 100W instead of the 50W previously in use and probably helped us complete a few more QSOs than would otherwise have been possible. The final few hours were trouble free and, as usual, a bit slower than the early part of the contest. On the whole we are pleased with the results though! It was now time to pack up. Davy MM0KBT, a local friend of mine who had kindly agreed to return the hire generator for us on Monday morning, turned up to take the generator away and helped with the packing. As is often the case every-thing was cleared up in re-cord time and we were ready to go. Just one more thing to do before leaving….. The farmer, who had paid us several visits over the week-end, had shown considerable interest in what we were doing, and had been very helpful, had asked John dur-ing the recce trip about a clay pigeon trap he has. The trap is triggered by a switch on a long (50m) length of wire and the farmer was enquiring about alternative triggering op-tions. John thought it would be possible to arrange a remote, radio controlled, trigger for him. Subse-quently a keyfob transmitter and matching receiver unit had been bought and were fitted by some of us on Sun-

day during the contest. As a thank you we had been invited to have a try at clay pigeon shooting after the contest. We all graciously accepted and so, once packed, we all walked to a nearby field where every-thing was set up ready for us. We all had a general safety talk before receiving individual coaching and 4 or 5 tries each at shooting clays with a 20 bore shotgun. I am pleased to report that everyone, without excep-tion, hit at least one of their clays! This was an enjoy-able conclusion to a long, hard working, weekend and we have received an invita-tion to go back again. Everyone enjoyed them-selves. With the sporadic-E and tropo, scores are higher than expected. Our 6m and 4m scores are hopefully good enough for UK Open Section 1st places on these bands. 2m and 70cm are both good but were hit a bit by our amplifier failures.

The 70cm squares worked map looks more like we would normally expect on 2m! We await publication of the final results to see how we have faired! Finally many thanks to Nick Van Zwanenberg (the farmer at Barlocco) for his hospitality, Davy MM0KBT for returning the hire gen-erator, GM0BWU for the loan of his IC746 and to everyone else who helped in any way. Until next time….. 73 Colin GM0CLN

(Continued from page 8) A summary of the bands is as fol-lows… 50MHz (2 x 5ele, 400W, IC756Pro) QSOs : 237 19 Countries : 9A CT EA EI G GD GI GM GW I IS LZ OE PA T9 YU ZB Best DX : CQ3A 2658km in Locator IM12NR 70MHz (8ele, 160W, FT1000MP & Mutek Transverter) QSOs : 85 5 Countries : G GD GI GM GW Best DX : G0IMG 503km in Locator JO01CA 144MHz (4 x 7ele, 400W/50W, FT847) QSOs : 324 12 Countries : DL EA EI F G GD GI GM GU GW ON PA Best DX : EA1FDI/P 1373km in Locator IN52LW 432MHz (2 x 23ele, 250W/50W, FT847) QSOs : 115 8 Countries : EA EI G GI GM GU GW PA Best DX : EA1FDI/P 1373km in Locator IN52LW

BAND MHz CALLSIGN USED QSO's POINTS CLAIMED BEST DX DISTANCE LOCATOR 50MHz MM0CPS/P 237 223567 CQ3A 2659 IM12NR 70MHz MM0CPS/P 85 22305 M0BPQ/P 492 JO01HH 144MHz MM0CPS/P 324 117339 EA1FD/P 1373 IN52LW 432MHZ MM0CPS/P 115 36210 EA1FD/P 1373 IN52LW TOTAL POINTS: 399421

Callsigns: GM0AAA – LZZ Mr F A Roe GM0ALS 74 Willow Grove, Livingston, West Lothian EH54 5NP Email: fred.roe@quintiles.com Callsigns: GM0MAA – ZZZ MM0MAA - ZZZ Mr A Jackson MM0MUL Union Farm, Craigrothie, Cupar, Fife KY15 5PG Email: alex.jackson@btinternet.com Callsigns: GM2AA – GM3ZZ GM2AAA – GM3ZZZ Mr C O’Hennessy GM4VVX Savalbeg, Lairg, Sutherland IV27 4ED Callsigns: GM1, 6, 7 & 8 GM4AAA – ZZZ MM1AAA – ZZZ MM5 Series Mr Michael Whitehead GM0PHW 185 Allanton Road, Allanton, Shotts Strathclyde ML5 5AX Email: gm0phw@hamcall.co.uk Callsigns: MM0AAA – LZZ Mr M C Clark GM6OFO 9 Burghmuir Road, Perth PH1 1LS Email: mike.gm6ofo@talk21.com

Callsigns: MM3 Series Mr R Simpson GM7NZI Flat 2/1, 53 Jedworth Avenue, Drumchapel, Glasgow G15 7QE Email: ray@gm7nzi.freeserve.co.uk Callsigns: Intermediate Series Mr A Horton G0LKG 18 Kingsmead Park Swinhope, Binbrook, Market Rasen, Lincs DN21 4SL Callsigns: Abbreviated Callsign Series Mr RAC Bunce M1EBN 3 Pinnings Lane, Waddingham Gainsborough, Lincs DN21 4SL Email: m1ebnrose@aol.com Callsigns: GBxAAA - ZZZ Mr M K Evans MW0CNA 322 Heol Gwyrosydd, Penlan, Swansea SA5 7BR Email: mw0cna@ntlworld.com Callsigns: RS (SWL’s) Mr D F Borne G4CTW Roughways Chub Tor, Yelverton, Devon PL20 6HY Email: dfborne@g4cyw.freeserve.co.uk

QSL Managers for Scotland

Where to send your QSL cards

Club Newsletter Page 10

Date Time Event Contact Tel./E-Mail

01 Jul 05 19:00 Club Night cancelled—now 8 July Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

02/03 Jul05 TBA VHF FIELD DAY

08 Jul 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

30/31 Jul 05 RSGB IOTA Contest from the Island Of Tiree Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

05 Aug 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

12 Aug 05 18:30 ANNUAL JUNK NIGHT Community Centre Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

20/21 Aug 05 LIGHTHOUSE WEEKEND BARNS NESS GB2LBN Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

27-Aug-05 09:30—16:30 Foundation License Course, Port Seton Community Centre

27-Aug-05 Mars Closest Approach John MM0JXI

02 Sep 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

03-Sep-05 15:00—15:45 Foundation License Exam

30 Sep 05 18:30 2nd 144 MHz DF Hunt Meet in Old Ship Inn Car Park (East) Ron GM4IKU 01875 811000

07 Oct 05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

21 Oct 05 19:30 VIDEO NIGHT Port Seton Community Centre Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

23-Oct-05 10:30 Galasheils Rally, Volunteer Hall, Galasheils Jim GM7LUN

04-Nov-05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

02-Dec-05 19:00 Club Night in the Thorntree Inn, Port Seton Bob GM4UYZ 01875 811723

03-Dec-05 CPSARC Christmas Meal

Forthcoming events are shown below. Please enter in your diary for 2005 and make an effort to attend as many as you can. These events are organized on your behalf do take a lot of organizing. It’s a great shame that more members are not in atten-dance on these nights which are ideal for learning more about our hobby as well as enjoying the company of like minded friends. As usual any further events for inclusion in this page can be forwarded to me at gm4iku@cpsarc.com

Events Column

Volume 13, Issue 8 Page 11

Information The Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club was formed by Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ in 1984, to help the local amateurs get to know each other. Numbers have increased steadily over the years and now average about 20. Far from being just a local club we have members coming from the Borders, Dumfries, Strathclyde and Fife. The Club meets on the first Friday of every month (Second Friday of January) in the lounge of the Thorn-tree 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, just a group of like minded people doing something they enjoy! This does not mean that we don’t do anything, we en-ter (and win!) contests, train newcomers, hold talks and video nights and run a popular annual Junk Sale. Our newsletter has won the Practical Wireless ‘Spotlight’ competition on several occasions. The Club supports the British Heart Foundation in memory of a member who died from heart disease by donating the profits from events we hold, we have raised over £10,392 since 1994. The Club is affiliated to the Radio Society of Great Britain and holds the callsigns MM0CPS and GM2T which are used for our special event and contest en-tries. We have our own internet domain www.cpsarc.com and club members can 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/group/cpsarc) Contacts General Correspondence, Amateur Licence Training (Foundation & Intermediate at present) and Contest entries Bob Glasgow gm4uyz@cpsarc.com HF Contests, Cambell Stevenson mm0dxc@cpsarc.com Newsletter, Web Site, Email Admin John Innes mm0jxi@cpsarc.com Events Column Ron Brown gm4iku@cpsarc.com

We’re on the web! www.cpsarc.com

7 Castle Terrace Port Seton

East Lothian EH32 0EE

Phone: 01875 811723 E-mail: gm4uyz@cpsarc.com

Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club