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William Greenwell joined our society in 2005 and eventually obtained the callsign M3VRE at one of our weekend training classes.
The Society have had outside events on his property including Mills Weekend as there was a watermill there many years ago, and we also put up stations at a couple of fetes he held there to raise money for St. Giles roof repair.
William often appeared at our BBQ’s, Boule, skittles & Friday night meetings.
He also came to several of our Christmas meals, dressed impeccably.
William became a SK on the 16th January after suffering a heart attack.
His funeral was held at St. Giles, Shermanbury on Friday 4th February.
R.I.P.
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Just a quick update from me (no more video uploads this week, as it's just too time consuming).
Everything went well again today, although band conditions weren't so good. For the third time this week, we had to shuffle on down the band to 21.343 MHz due to a couple of strong German stations taking up residence on 21.346 MHz from around 13:15 each day.
Small snippets of David (WB1EAD) wafted across the pond, but nothing heard from Steve GJ6WRI - even though Dick G0LFF/M drove up to Firle Beacon to maximise his chances of a contact. Bob N4XAT and Chris M7VJE joined the Zoom stream. Hope you start feeling better soon Chris.
It seems to work well for Zoom participants, but they obviously only get to hear what I hear. David was making it into me better yesterday - similar to what Russell was hearing based on his reports from yesterday. Sadly I get nothing from Ray, but glad that he's doing some good work on CW. Well done to him.
Bob isn't around tomorrow - he's on his Navy HF Net, but he said that he'll try and join us again on Friday.
If anyone else wants to get in on the act tomorrow (and you don't have to be a member, or even be licenced) then you will be made very welcome.
73, M0XYF.
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Great to see Bob N4XAT join today's Zoom experiment. We did manage to have a brief 'QSO' on the Zoom chat, although we both had our hands full of technical 'stuff' I think!
As you can see in the chat box (click the image to enlarge it), Bob was running Zoom to hear the Sussex crew, The W1NT WebSDR to hear David, Messenger to read what was going on with Steve GJ6WRI (great that you could join us Steve) as well as his Kenwood tuned to 21.343MHz!
OK, so this isn't really ground-breaking stuff, as it's basically what we do to audio-stream our 70cms GB3HY repeater net, but I wanted to see how it would sound on HF with the totally different noise conditions etc. and it seems to be working reasonably well.
It would be nice if tomorrow, somebody with Messenger could inject Bob's Messenger chat back into the radio Net, or join the Zoom call to do the same. It must be frustrating not having the capability to reply in any way. Sorry, I don't use Messenger and transmitting on the same radio that's streaming to Zoom doesn't seem to work very well for some reason.
I'm currently uploading today's recording to our YouTube channel. Edited, it's about 24 minutes. Find it here: https://youtu.be/NRwpHZ49Hng
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Well well well. This is welcome news. I was beginning to wonder if this would ever happen, but I'm very glad to see that it's now imminent.
I hadn't realised quite how much I'd missed these fellas.
If you've never seen TX Factor, you can't really call yourself a radio amateur. OK, so that might be a bit of an overstatement, but if you're new to the hobby, get on YouTube and get caught up!
Episode 27 was released way back in December 2020. It seems even longer ago than that, but episode 28 will apparently be released in the next fortnight.
Happy days.
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Join us at lunchtime (13:30 kick-off) every weekday this week to listen in on our 15m Lunchtime Club Net. No radio required!
You can look at mine instead. It's the (fairly) new Yaesu FTDX10, and I'm lending it to you for free.
All you need to do is click on the link to our Zoom channel on the website homepage.
To give you a taste of what you'll get, I've uploaded a 15min clip to YouTube, and you can find a link to that on our Videos page.
I'd be happy to hear any audio reports and suggestions for the Zoom recording if you'd like to pass them on to me. I've been playing around with the various audio settings in Zoom trying to maximise the quality, but it's not quite there yet. I currently have Zoom set to 'Original Sound' because the automatic background noise filtering that gets applied was taking out not only the noise, but some of the higher audio frequencies. All input welcomed.
This is by no means a permanent arrangement, but maybe we can find a cost-effective solution to stream audio on demand from the club shack at some point. We'll make that happen somehow, I'm sure.
73's
