The Journal of Horsham Amateur Radio Club - March 2021 - Est. 1938
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Club Call G4HRS Est. 1938
The Journal of
Horsham Amateur Radio Club
March 2021
Sponsored by: Affiliated to:
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Contents
In this issue
3. Notes from the Editor
Overseas protocol
4. The foxy results
‘And the winner is’
6. Tuned in
AM listening
11. Diary of events
Full listings for the month
Cover photo: QSL card from Museum Radio
Published by Horsham Amateur Radio Club
HARCNEWS is produced at home by G4JHI
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Editorial
Now that the UK has left the EU have you thought about the aspect of
purchasing your amateur radio goods from overseas? Suppliers have new
customs forms to fill in and when the ordered goods arrive in this country,
they may be subject to more rigorous checks by the UK Customs than in
previous times.
Having ordered from abroad very recently, I have found that packages are taking longer to arrive
than usual but a percentage of this is due to the current pandemic. One thing to bear in mind is that
depending on the value of the item(s) there may be additional costs in the form of Customs Duty and
VAT. If this is the case one will be notified by email or post and once paid the goods will be delivered.
Alternatively, it may be possible to pick up and pay at the same time at a sorting office as I did on
one occasion. When you order the goods do watch out with the payment method offered. I used
Paypal to pay for items from the EU and USA a few days ago and both times got the option of either
Euro/GBP and US dollars/GBP respectively.
Always pay in the currency of the country that you are ordering the goods from. This statement also
applies when you are abroad (hopefully soon!) on your vacation for good/services and when taking
out cash from an ATM. If you pay in GBP you will end up with currency conversion twice and pay
over the odds!
David G4JHI
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February Virtual Fox Hunt Report
Sunday 7th February saw the latest virtual fox hunt with G4LRP as the virtual fox!
The fox G4HRS/P took to his lair in the carpark of The Owl pub at Kingsfold on the A24.
G4HRS/P
The format followed the previous virtual fox hunts, with only two transmissions for the hunters to
obtain their bearings and then share with each other. Many thanks go to Robin G3OGP for collating
all the info and sharing it between the participants.
As with the previous virtual fox hunts, being based at home with only enough time to gather two
‘accurate’ bearings from a fixed location proves to be a challenge, then trying to decide which other
bearing information from the other participants to use to locate the fox also proves to be a
challenge. As we all know a bearing with the strongest signal strength may not always be in the right
direction. In fact you might as well make a complete guess as to where the fox might be!
The results were as follows:
1st place: David G4JHI within 2.1km near Tyldens House just south of The Dog and Duck.
2nd place: Mick G4EFO within 2.5km Station Road Warnham.
3rd place: Alister G3ZBU within 3.1km Great Daux Roundabout on the A24.
4th place: Robin G3OGP within 3.9km The Sussex Barn, North Heath Lane.
5th Place: Bryn G3SWC within 4.0km Robin Hood Lane Roundabout on the A24.
6th Place: Jonathan M0TWM within 4.3km mid-way along Robin Hood Lane by the deer park.
7th place: Mike G8CKT within 12.1km end of Parish Lane at Pease Pottage.
8th place Steve M7PWK within 19.8km Codmore Hill north of Pulborough.
Well done David for getting the closest to my location.
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Well done to all for taking part I hope you enjoyed having a go and especially well done to Jon
M0TWM for having a go from home in the Cobham area, although Jon was unable to take bearings
he was able to listen to all on the Farnham web SDR that covers 2m and use the bearings given over
the air to make a very good estimate of my location. It goes to prove that anyone can take part and
have a go.
It was interesting to note that the majority of the results were within a 1km radius of the Great Daux
roundabout. I think if we had had a few more participants and with additional bearings the fox
hunters would been able to provide more accurate locations.
Our next club fox hunt is due towards the end of May, hopefully we will be out of lockdown and be
able to have a ‘real’ fox hunt and meet up together (Covid and social distancing allowing).
73 ‘The Fox’
Adrian G4LRP
5Broadcast Listener
Roundup
by David 2E0NKC
All times UTC and frequencies in kHz or MHz
Medium-wave – AN 200 loop antenna
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits Erlanger, Germany. This institute has been broadcasting
tones and CW with 6 watts erp on 1485KHz. Heard several nights along with co-channel, Spain.
North American reception has been good this winter. WEGP, Presque island, Maine heard at 22:00 on
1390. CJYQ St Johns, Newfoundland heard with local ads at 22:05 on 930. VOCM heard with local
news and Wx at 21:30 on 590.
WBBR ‘Bloomberg Radio’, New York heard as early as 21:50 on 1130. WINS ‘all news station’ heard
at 22:00 on 1010. CBG, Gander, Newfoundland heard with news at 22:05. Radio Capodistra, Kriz,
Slovenia heard at 16:45 on 1170 in Italian. Museum Radio, Bad Ischl, Austria heard on 1476 at
15:30 to 16:00.
Armenian Radio heard on 1395 at 16:30 with id “Yerevan Kosum”. Forth 2 (“greatest hits for Lothian
and Fife”) heard at 16:00 and TWR, Grigoripol, Moldovia heard at 21:00 both on 1548 with QRM
from co-channel Capital Gold. Italian Radio Relay Service, Villa Entense on 594 heard with English
news at 21:30. Flame Christian Community Radio, Willaston, Wirral (erp 70w) heard at 20:40 with
hymns. Hungarian Programme 4, Gyor heard in Romanian on 1350 at 15:15 wiping out Mid Downs
Radio, Haywards Heath.
Short-wave
WMR, Bramming, Denmark has QSY-ed to 5930, daytime only with 100w. Reach Beyond Australia,
Kununurra heard with English ID at 12:00 on 11825. Radio Japan on 13725 had English news in
it’s Persian service at 14:35. Due to Covid-19 the station has been inserting the same into other
languages services. Adventist World Radio has a DX programme ‘Wavescan’, Sundays at 15:30 on
6155. Voice of Korea heard at 15:00 on 7570 with ‘News Now’ after patriotic songs and anthem.
Radio Tirana has English at 13:30 (not Sundays) on 6005 via Kall. Radio Belarus has English 20:00
on 3985 also from the same site. Radio Free Asia heard in Chinese at 16:30 on 7665 via Dushanbe,
Tajikistan. This was jammed by a “CNR 1 jammer”. As I do not understand the language I don’t
know which signal prevailed. Radio Rebelde, Cuba heard at 07:00 on 5025. This domestic station
plays lots of Latin Armenian music.
Bangladesh Betar heard with ID at 16:30 on 4750. VoA heard with English news on 17680 and
15560 from Philippines relay. The ‘A-21’ broadcast season starts on March 28th which coincides with
BST starting.
6QSL’s received
Radio Africa via WRMI – card showing TX No 7
Radio Slovakia International – card showing picture of baroque interior of wooden church at Kezmaroit
Voice of Tukey – card with picture of baklava, the most famous and admired of Turkish cuisine +
other goods, also sent schedule
Reach Beyond Australia – schedule and card with picture of Ayers Rock named after Sir Henry Ayers.
The rock is 348 metres above ground but 2.5kms of its bulk is underground
Spirit Radio, Eire – QSL letter, car sticker and information leaflet
HCJB – card, letter and German language newsletter
Radio Belarus – picture postcard, fridge magnet, out of date schedule!
Museum Radio – card, personal letter, photos of 27 metre vertical antenna and converted ‘top band’
amateur TX received from Reinhard Pirnbacher OE5TPM
Royal Thai Government, Radio Thailand – QSL folder and schedule. Marconi 6128 TX and curtain
antenna
WRMI – cards of hungry alligator by TX building and pineapples growing at TX site
Norddeutscher Rundfunk – card for report of annual Christmas eve broadcast for ships at sea called
“Greetings On Board”
Museum Radio converted ‘top
band’ amateur transmitter
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So, now we are a little closer to the antenna adjustment ... and of course the transmitter is interested
9Antenna vertical 27m high
10Diary
Mar 1st, 80m Data Club Championship 20:00 - 21:30
Mar 2nd, 144MHz FMAC 19:00 - 19:55
144MHz UKAC 20:00 - 22:30
Mar 3rd, 80m SSB UKEICC 20:00 - 21:00
Mar 9th, 432MHz FMAC 19:00 - 19:55
432MHz UKAC 20:00 - 22:30
Mar 10th, 80m CW Club Championship 20:00 - 21:30
Mar 11th, 50MHz UKAC 20:00 - 22:30
Mar 18th, 70MHz UKAC 20:00 - 22:30
Mar 25th, 80m SSB Club Championship 20:00 - 21:30
Mar 28th, British Summer Time begins
For details on the above contests use this link and follow to the appropriate section
https://rsgb.org/main/radio-sport/what-is-radio-sport
All above times are UTC
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