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Our Annual visit to The Royal Oak Barcombe for the MSARS 2019 Skittles meeting.
The Winners this year were Kim and William with a grand score of 101. Congratulations to them, and a big thank you to Alan and Stella for looking after the scores.
It was Great that William was able to join us. Thank you to Kim for supplying the images.
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The Hounds gathered in Cyprus road car park for this, the last RDF outing of 2019.
The teams comprised of:
Kim G7AIE
Russell G7TMR
The Satellites:
Peter G4AKG, Mike G8KMP, Tony G3XQM.
and Mervyn M0WVE
The first transmission from the Fox's Lair was at 7.30pm BST, and lasted for a duration of 2 minutes.
As the nights were closing in, all transmissions were 10 minutes apart, and all further transmissions were of 1 minute duration.
Copy based upon Alan and Stella's hand out with much appreciation.
From the start the signals were quite strong and appeared to be coming from a southerly direction.
The satellite Team took a long time to find the foxes. We had a feeling that the signals were emanating from around Ditchling, although the signal levels were not as strong as we thought they should be.
Then Mike had a brain wave - the penny dropped. We had been there before, on a different occasion.
The Car Park at St John the Baptist's Church Underhill Lane Clayton.
Refreshments at the Jack and Jill Inn, polished off an enjoyable evening.
Image below: Merv homing in.....
Congratulations to Russell, the Winner of the RDF event
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On Friday last (9th Aug) we held our Treasure Hunt.
This was hosted by Alan and Stella, who decided to revive a format that had been used many years previously hence turning it into a Measure Hunt.
The idea being that even if you got back in the shortest time, and had answered all the questions correctly, collected all the random bits asked for along the way, you may still not be the winner of the Hunt.
We had five teams that took part - they were:-
1) Kim G7AIE & Sue G6YPY
2) Mike G8KMP, Tony G3XQM & Peter G4AKG
3) Russell G7TMR & Val XYL
4) Mike G1TDL & Sue XYL
5) Del 2E0KDL & family
Once each team had given the mileage reading to Alan prior to leaving Cyprus Hall carpark, it was then entirely up to each team, which way round they went, visiting the four locations marked on the maps, prior to meeting back at the finishing point (The Acorn) at the Premier Inn Burgess Hill, by Tesco's
We had set five questions in or around each location, plus there was one final one just as you came in through the doors of the pub from the carpark.
While Alan & Stella sorted the marking on the spreadsheet, all those that took part had a well deserved drink or two, some even shared some crisps and lovely they were too.
The team in 1st place was:-
Kim G7AIE & Sue G6YPY.
Followed by
Russell G7TMR & Val XYL,
Mike G8KMP, Tony GXQM & Peter G4AKG.
Del 2E0KDL & family.
Mike G1TDL & Sue XYL.
N.B.Sue and Kim won the treasure hunt by just one point from Russell and Val - Ed.
The 1st placed team won with 65 points and the 5th team came in with 45 points. Everyone appeared to have had a good time, although we thought maybe the next one could be on a Sunday morning ending at a pub for lunch. Perhaps you could send some feedback to the chairman letting him know if you would like to try this out? We used to do it many, many years ago, perhaps we could try this again.
Photos supplied by Tony G3XQM & Alan G8YKV
73's
Stella M6ZRJ
Cheers everyone and here's to the next time.
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History of Windmills Evening:
It all began when Eric Letts G3RXJ, Darrell Emmerson G3SYS and Brian Epps G3SHQ, all members of the Crawley Amateur Radio Society, felt that it was too far to travel on winter nights, and that the possibility of a local Club was worth exploring.
Darrell and Brian were youngsters, both still studying, but full of enthusiasm. Between them they searched the Call Book for call signs in the Burgess Hill, Hasocks and Haywards Heath areas, and came up with quite a surprising number, including Griff Rockwood G3JGR and Arthur Cambell G3PEQ.
Eric Letts G3RXJ undertook to write to all those people to ascertain interest, and was amazed at the response. On the 15th June, 18 People met at Arthur Cambell's G3PEQ home is Hassocks for the Inaugural meeting. It was a unanimous decision to form a club, and they settled for the name of "Mid-Sussex Amateur Radio Society". A Committee was formed consisting of Chairman - Maurice Brown G3BZO, Secretary - Eric Letts G3RXJ and Treasurer - P Tory, together with 4 committee members.
Windmills Evening Friday 21st June 2019
Around twelve members and friends enjoyed the sunny evening up at the Windmills. Kim G7AIE and Phil G4UDU were operating from their vehicles.
Photos courtesy of Tony G3XQM.
History taken from publication;
40th Anniversary Special Edition 1966-2006
With kind permission of Mike Pollock G8KMP.
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A very interesting talk given by John G8JBJ on HF Propagation that was not only heard by the members in Millfield Suite, but also simultaneously by our overseas members.
GoToMeeting allowed MSARS members located in Italy and Jersey to join in, hear the proceedings and ask questions.
The presentation containing the link to the propagation prediction tool that John demonstrated and the source of Smooth Sunspot Numbers is available on Youtube. A link to it is provided under our Videos menu.
