RadCom February 2016, Vol. 92, No. 2

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News
OL7M Contest station
After one year in the
making, the contest team
at OL7M has finished
the construction and
installation of 4 x 6 element
28MHz G0KSC OWA Yagis.
The YouTube video takes
you through this project
from concept to completion
and is well worth watching.
Go to
watch?v=eTDvzJSJ0jc&fea
ture=youtu.be
Special event
stations
4V1TL: The Radio Club D’Haïti will put
this station on the air from 1 January
until 30 April in memory of General
Toussaint Louverture, who was arrested
and sent to France and jailed at Fort de
Joux where he died on 7 April 1803.
GB2LBD: As part of SOS Radio Week
this station will be on the air on 23 and
30 January, operated by the Nunsfield
House Amateur Radio Group in Derby.
It is hoped to be operational on 40m
and other HF bands depending on
conditions, along with some VHF
depending on propagation and
availability of aerials. GB7CL
The Clacton on sea DMR repeater, GB7CL,
(430.6375 / 439.6375, colour code
3) went on air on 28 December. The
photo shows the radio room with the
DMR repeater on the left & GB3TE (2m
repeater) on the right. The repeater group
would welcome any signal reports via the
website,
CDXC Survey
CDXC, the UK DX Foundation, has just
completed an online survey of its membership.
More than 500 of its 900 members
completed the survey, full details of which
will be published in future club magazines.
Interesting outcomes from the survey included
74% of members had been licensed for at
least 30 years, 30% of members had at least
5000 QSOs per year and 45% of members
used simple wire or vertical antennas for
DXing and contesting. To learn more about
CDXC, visit
Silver
Anniversary
The pre-Christmas Hog Roast and Open Day
at ML&S was well attended with visitors
travelling quite some distance to attend.
Martin and his team would like to thank
everyone for helping make the 25th year of
ML&S Ltd so special.
GB3HY
Mid Sussex Repeater Group has put GB3HY back on the air after an absence of nearly three
years. The repeater is now operating from the same location in Haywards Heath, West Sussex,
with an output power of 10W (previously 25W). The frequency is 430.900/438.500MHz
(input/output) and CTCSS is 88.5Hz. The ident of GB3HY also includes the locator information.
The repeater group would appreciate any reports on signal strength, location etc and general
comments sent to
Multi-generation activation
Renowned radio amateur Gordon
‘Dick’ Bird, G4ZU was responsible
for the design of popular antennas
such as the G4ZU MiniBeam,
the Bow-and-Arrow Yagi and the
‘Birdcage’, and has been featured
in RadCom several times since the
1950s. He passed away in 2005,
aged 86, and the callsign G4ZU
was activated for the first time in
ten years by three generations of
his descendants, on Christmas Day
2015.
With the permission of the family
and Ofcom, the callsign G4ZU was
transferred to grand-daughter Sarah’s husband Pete Sipple, M0PSX. Members of the Bird
family gathered for the festive period and Dick’s son, Chris Bird was able to pass a seasonal
greetings message to his daughter Sarah, M6PSK via the G4ZU callsign. Sarah, in turn then
received a greetings message from Dick’s great-granddaughter, 8-year-old Kathryn, completing
the four generation connection. The photo shows Kathryn, Sarah, M6PSK and Chris Bird.
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