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Stella M6ZRJ is doing a grand job of rustling up some Friday evening entertainment for us all.
Firstly, skittles night has moved to the 1st of October to make way for a talk (on the 24th September) by Sue G6YPY on her relocation to France.
15th of October is a talk by John Wymer - How to Design & Build RF Power Amplifiers.
John Berry GM8JBJ has kindly offered to give a talk on auroral propagation on the 12th of November. It will be hosted live via web link at Cyprus Hall from John's home in Scotland, and online participation will be made available to everyone not attending the hall in person.
Finally, (ahem, drum roll please...) the long-awaited Junk Sale is back - scheduled for the 22nd of October! People's under-stairs cupboards, garden sheds, garages and coal bunkers must surely overfloweth with the backlog of bin fodder by now. Time to set yourself free and pass it all on to someone else.
Oh, and finally finally, Christmas Dinner will now happen sometime in the new year due to popular opinion - more details to follow.
Big thanks to Stella for bringing these events together and letting me know about them, as well as all the other people working hard behind the scenes to get the club back to where it needs to be.
Berni M0XYF
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Stella M6ZRJ has been in contact to let me know about a couple of upcoming events at the club which may be of interest to members or prospective members alike. Please check the calendar for details. If you're already a member of MSARS, then please come and support the organisers. If you're new to radio, new to MSARS or are just interested in finding out more, please come along to any of these events or one of our regular club nights. You'll be warmly welcomed - the vast majority of us don't bite and will be glad to talk about the hobby with you 
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Yes, you read that correctly - Friday 30th July will be the first meeting back at the hall and then each Friday thereafter.
Masks or Face shields are not required but we expect some will still wish to use them.
Social distancing not required but we need to respect others.
We are required to sanitise tables and chairs that we use so please do not rush out at the end and expect others to do it every time (hall are supplying materials).
We hope to see as many members as possible back at the club at the end of the month.
Russell G7TMR
Hon Chairman
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So, my 'new' 40m End-Fed Half Wave wire antenna (which I can manually tune on 80m as well) has finally deposed the trusty Cushcraft AV4 from its prime position in the middle of the back lawn. As it's 20m long and my back garden isn't, it's currently draped over the roof of my shed at one end, so far from ideal. Even like that, it still outperforms my old Cushcraft vertical, so I thought I'd try and benchmark it as it is, for future reference.
It's eventually going to be in a full 'inverted L' configuration, but for now it's more like a very pointy inverted V. The far end will be raised from its current lowly 2m height to a relatively lofty 10m which should improve both transmit and receive conditions significantly. It's also a few inches too long, but that's insurance for tuning once in its final position.
Anyway, I wanted to 'document' what it can do right now, hence my recording the net this morning, propagation conditions notwithstanding. I streamed it on Zoom and simultaneously recorded it to my hard drive. After a bit of basic audio editing for duration etc. I thought that there may be other people that would be interested in hearing it. Maybe some visitors to the website who don't currently have a radio and wonder what's going on, or some of our overseas friends who might like to compare the results to one or more of the popular WebSDRs. I could hear everyone bar Sean and Gerry in Ireland, though I'm suffering from a terribly high noise floor (and rampant common mode currents on transmit) in this lashed-up incarnation.
So download it if you wish. It's about 37Mb in size and runs for approximately 50 minutes. It's in .m4a format (playable with most media players).
Berni M0XYF
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Well, maybe not free exactly, but it was a significant milestone in the resumption of more normal club activities post C-19 (not that there will ever be such a thing, but you know what I mean).
Eleven members formed four teams of hounds chasing down the cheeky foxes who were apparently hiding out behind a distant hedge this year.
Russell G7TMR sorting the reflected signals from the real ones in the car park at the start of the event.
Foxes and hounds ruminating on another well organised tactical encounter (I'm making all this up by the way, as I wasn't even there!)
And the winners were... the foxes! Despite some of the hounds passing within 50 yards of the fox's lair, they remained sufficiently well hidden to avoid being nabbed.
The Friars Oak in Hassocks was the nominated debriefing venue, where outdoor drinking was just the ticket.
But the last word should definitely go to Tony G3XQM, who summed up just what it felt like to get out on a proper face to face event. Well done to Stella and Alan for organising. Thanks also to Mike G1TDL for supplying the photos. It's much appreciated.
Berni M0XYF
