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This afternoon, Peter Fry, chairman of Mid Sussex Amateur Radio Society, attended a cheque presentation ceremony at the Town Council's Help Point in Church Walk, Burgess Hill. Our successful grant application resulted in the council awarding the Society £800 to help pay for our new state-of-the-art remotely accessible amateur radio transceiver.
The cheque was presented by our local councillor and Town Mayor Peter Chapman, and we look forward to welcoming the Mayor to Cyprus Hall one evening to demonstrate the equipment in action. We also hope to work with our local council more closely in the future on other community projects and collaborations.
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It's Alive!
Yes, the ambition of having one of the best and most powerful SDR transceivers on the market installed in our own shack has been realised, and much faster than I could ever have expected.
Above: One participant being received on the Flex during the Sunday Morning 80m net.
Above: Peter G4AKG making an impression from 300m away.
Above: Top half is Peter G4AKG into the KiwiSDR, lower signal is Phil G4UDU into the Kiwi from a few feet away - but only on 10W.
Fundraising Effort
The fundraising has gone amazingly well, and with the help of a few committed members, the support of Burgess Hill Town Council, and with the extreme generosity of so many other individuals in and around MSARS, we have completed a remarkable transformation in the club's fortunes since the beginning of the year. External interest is on the up, membership is up and event attendance is definitely up.
Landmark
This is unquestionably a milestone in the club's history, and I hope that as many of you as possible will embrace the new opportunities. There's a lot to learn, and a lot of fun to be had. Maybe it'll take a while before some people are willing to step out of their comfort zone, but that's OK. It's just another era being welcomed in. The shack still houses a legacy HF/VHF/UHF radio, and I'm sure there's still an old spark-gap transmitter under the bench somewhere for those who like their radios properly old-school, so now there's something for everyone.
See it? Can't see it!
'See' the radio in action... Phil is operating at home on an iPad in the comfort of his favourite armchair. Just go to our Videos page to watch.
We'll work out some tutorial stuff, some procedural protocol for general access and some fool-proof instructions in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, just enjoy hearing the club callsigns on the air - on any day and at any time.
73's
Berni M0XYF
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The grapevine may already have done its job, but I can confirm that we were lucky enough to have been granted £800 towards our new Flex Transceiver by Burgess Hill Town Council this Thursday.
Wonderful news. Huge thanks and gratitude to all those parties involved at the council for reading our submission properly and doing their due diligence. They clearly 'get it' and isn't it great that a local council is willing to invest not only in our radio community, but also in the future of the local residents - young and old alike.
Education doesn't discriminate. Plenty of us came into the hobby in our later years, and it's a great way to keep the grey matter ticking over, as well as having the benefits associated with regular communication and in-person social gatherings.
We are particularly looking forward to welcoming younger scholars and talents into our ranks though. We desperately need an injection of fresh thinking and opinion.
We will continue to create and present tutorial content on our training academy facility over the winter months, and we look forward to sharing that with you all soon.
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For the record, actual FT8 QSOs made in preparation for our demonstration. Not uploaded or logged elsewhere.
| Callsign | Gridsquare | RST Sent | RST Rcvd | Time | Band | Frequency | Tx Power |
| DH2NJS | JO50 | 9 | 16 | 114600 | 20m | 14.07589 | 60W |
| DL6UM | JO60 | 4 | -3 | 114700 | 20m | 14.07589 | 60W |
| EU1P | ???? | -10 | -3 | 114800 | 20m | 14.07589 | 60W |
| KF9UG | ???? | -8 | -14 | 115000 | 20m | 14.07629 | 50W |
| IK4LZH | JN54 | 10 | -5 | 115400 | 17m | 18.1019 | 30W |
| UA4FEN | ???? | 9 | -4 | 115900 | 15m | 21.07562 | 50W |
| F5HNQ | IN98 | 13 | 4 | 120430 | 30m | 10.1376 | 35W |
| G0AKH | IO70 | 8 | 13 | 120530 | 30m | 10.1376 | 35W |
| G8VVY | IO81 | 5 | 11 | 121030 | 40m | 7.075636 | 35W |
| RU3FM | ???? | 5 | -7 | 121400 | 10m | 28.07587 | 35W |
| RK4FF | ???? | 8 | 5 | 121700 | 10m | 28.07461 | 35W |
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Welcome to any visiting Guides, parents, guardians and friends
This evening we will do our best to put on a little demonstration of Amateur Radio, and rather than print out a sheet of information containing images and links etc. I thought I'd save the paper and drop an article on our website, so hopefully you'll find us.
Here is a simplified image, showing a range of frequencies, how frequency relates to the types of Electromagnetic Radiation, and some of the uses we have for them. As you can see, most communication technologies use frequencies at the lower end of the range. Click the image below for more information.
Below you can see a world map, showing where signals from our club callsign G3ZMS landed during a brief test session on the day of the demonstration.
You can view reports from any callsign at any time by visiting the PSKreporter website here: https://www.pskreporter.info/pskmap.html and entering the callsign.
Reports do only stay on that site for 24 hours though, so don't hang around!
KiwiSDR - online radio, but not as you know it!
Visit our Homepage, scroll to the bottom and click the WebSDR banner. The bookmarks at the top of the WebSDR display hint at what you can expect to find at individual frequencies. Right at the very top, you can see the various bands - including the amateur bands in blue.
Try zooming in and out, clicking on a particular signal on the waterfall and then try out the various modes to see what you can hear, like USB, LSB, AM, FM and CW. You can also adjust the little coloured 'hat' near the top, to make it fit the width of the signal and to get the best results.
A lot of signals will be data and not speech. To investigate those, you'll have to do a little research, or ask us to come back and do another talk!
In the meantime, thanks for visiting our website, and we hope you enjoyed the demonstration.
Berni M0XYF
