Sutton and Cheam Radio Society

Monday 20th May 2013

Chris Howard — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:19:39 +0000

Congratulations to our 6 intermediate candidates who all passed their exam.

Alex, Laurence and Joe were using the club TS2000 to receive slow scan TV.

John has a problem with his antenna analyser. Unfortunately we couldn’t fix it, so he’ll be taking it back to the dealer for repair.

Alex brought along his latest invention, a bathroom light monitor. You can check out his website at thirdharmonic.co.uk

Along with lots of chat, tea and coffee was drunk.

Monday 13th May 2013

Chris Howard — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:45:00 +0000

Steve brought up his Cobweb antenna, which he built from a plan by G3TXQ. After some tweaking, and testingon an analyser it was resonant on 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m and 10m.

Alex was playing with psk31 and a USB based SDR.

Paul brought along some satellite pictures he received from NOAA using his funcube dongle.

Monday 29th April 2013

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:38:00 +0000

Steve and Paul were testing out an MFJ DSP 784B audio filter, which was working very well attached to the club Kenwood ts2000.

Alex was using psk31 and an SDR with his USB dongle.

Some of the guys were planning out the activities for a scouting event next weekend.

and the rest of spent the whole evening drinking tea.

Monday 22nd April 2013

admin — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:02:00 +0000

Neil, M0ZEY, was fiddling with his Ten-Tec radio that had a fault on transmit which was restricting the power output, which he managed to fix with some help from Steve G1MPW.

Martin, M1MRB, brought up a USB based TV card which he got working as a software defined radio receiver.

Alex, 2E0FJA, worked 2m simplex on the club Kenwood TS2000.

And the usual cups of tea and chat.

Monday 15th April 2013

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:50:00 +0000

Alex brought up his binary clock, which he built using a ds1307 IC based clock, with an arduino to control the LEDs.

Martin and Neil were reviewing the training material for this weekend’s intermediate course.

We all went out to the car park to watch the ISS go over.

All in all, another good Monday night session.

Monday 8th April 2013

admin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:19:00 +0000

Martin brought up some old PMR radios for various bands.

Denis was sorting out some kevlar aerial wire, and made up a patch lead.

Barry brought a military radio up.

Alex was operating HF on his ft857.

…..and of course the usual tea and banter.

Monday 25th March 2013

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:47:00 +0000

Steve brought up and demonstrated his Hunter software defined radio which he bought as a kit.

The other guys spent time reprogramming some ex PMR radios for use on the local repeaters.

Andrew tested our RCD adapters and found one to be faulty.

Callum has his new call sign – M6CRK

Please note : we are closed next week due to it being Easter Monday.

Monday 18th March 2013

admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

Congratulations to Callum who passed his foundation exam tonight.

Martin was quizzing the other club members on resisters in parallel.

We were trying to reprogram an ex Kenwood PMR radio, without success.

Denis was measuring the emissions from lighting transformers.

Until next week……

Monday 11th March 2013

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:03:00 +0000

Alex operated 2m on the Kenwood TS2000 and was talking to Jim M0UJC

Joe brought along a Kenwood PMR radio, which hopefully can be converted for amateur use once he’s passed his intermediate exam.

The other chaps were planning out the installation of the WiFi Internet connection for the scouts.

Finally Callum has now finished his foundation training, and has his exam next Monday night.

Good luck Callum!!

Monday 4th March 2013

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:04:00 +0000

Martin had a clear out of his shack, and brought up some his cherished items for some of the other guys to enjoy.

Alex brought along a DVB tuner, which he had operating as an SDR receiver, which worked from 24MHz to 1.7GHz.

Callum has now completed his foundation training and is now just doing his revision before his exam.

Chris and Martin played with running a DVAP on a raspberry pi.

Chris was showing off his new homebrew 4:1 balun, which was copied from one made by Steve.

And the usual tea and banter all around.