Last weekend was the yearly SSB field day, I’d not taken part in this contest for a couple of years properly but this year I decided take part along with the Oxford &DARS. The weather outlook for the weekend was bleek at best, with the forecast being rain and heavy rain so either way it [...]
26 Jul, 2008
Posted by: peter In: general
Yesterday I went along to the Oxford & District ARS as I was invited to give a talk about HamTests.co.uk which Paul (M0TZO) and I have run since April 2006. This was the second talk I’d given at the club (the last one was on PSK31) I tried to keep the talk as non technical [...]
Last weekend was IARU Region 1 National Field Day and just like any other year the Oxford & District Amateur Radio Society, was taking part from the usual location at Worminghall, which is on the boundary of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Setup began on Friday afternoon once all antennas, tents etc were on site, and luckily the [...]