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H.A.R.E.S.
will be starting an intermediate course on 15th February 2012
Minutes
of Annual General Meeting of Hinckley Amateur Radio and Electronics Society.
held at Ex
Services Club Station Road Hinckley at 7.45pm on Wednesday 23’rd November 2011
Present
Norman Castledine, Colin Brink, John Rogers, Mark Burrows, Jayne Burrows, Clive
Woodley, Simon Kerr, Bob Bennett, Tamer Akay, Phil Haywood, Ian Truslove, Roger
Burrows, Vinny Hopkins, Chris Summers, Laurence Rimington,Nic Harwood, Craing
Tonge, Mike M6MPW, Ellen Scott, Rich Cattell, Steve Burrows
Apologies Paul Savage, Mike Finn, Stephen Burrows,
Wayne Mellar.
Agenda
Review and
approval of minutes of Last Years AGM -Colin Brink
Presentation and Approval of Accounts of HARES -Colin Brink
Presentation / Discussion of Club Annual Report -John Rogers
Nomination
and election of Committee for 2012 -All
Suggestions
for events in 2012 -All
AOB
Routine
business including approval of minutes (proposed
Vinnie Hopkins seconded Mark Burrows) was concluded quickly. A vote of thanks
was given to club officers for their efforts during the year.
Financial report presented and accepted (proposed
Chris Summers seconded Vinnie Hopkins)
Details
per the attached finance report Annex 2.
Various
reports regarding the activities during the year were presented,
Including
reports on Special events stations at Railways on the air, Churches on the air,
BiWota,
Field days
and contest results were presented by Vinnie
A Special
presentation of Honorary Life membership was awarded to John Rogers, in
recognition of the service to the club over the past few years.
Election
of committee
The
present committee with the exception of John Rogers was unanimously approved.
*
No further
business was recorded
The
meeting was closed and a celebration was held to commemorate 40 years of HARES
*
John was standing down as secretary due to moving
to Worksop but will keep in touch with HARES
Minutes of Annual General Meeting of Hinckley Amateur Radio and Electronics
Society.
held at
Ex Services Club Station Road Hinckley at 7.45pm on Wednesday 8th
December 2010
Present Norman Castledine, Colin Brink, John
Rogers, Mark Burrows, Jayne Burrows, Clive Woodley, Simon Kerr, Bob Bennett,
Tamer Akay, Doug McAuslan, Phil Haywood, Michael Whotton, Matthew Calvert,
Ian Truslove, Roger Burrows, Rod Booth, Darren Rayne, Vinny Hopkins, Tamer
Akay, Malcolm Quemby.
Apologies Paul Savage, Mike Finn, Stephen
Burrows, Wayne Mellar.
Agenda
Review
and approval of minutes of Last Years AGM -Colin Brink
Presentation and Approval of Accounts of HARES -Colin Brink
Presentation / Discussion of Club Annual Report -John
Rogers
Nomination and election of Committee for 2011 -All
Suggestions for events in 2011
-All
AOB
Routine business including approval of minutes
(proposed Bob Bennett seconded Jayne Burrows) was concluded quickly. A vote
of thanks was given to club officers for their efforts during the year.
Financial report presented and accepted
(proposed Simon Kerr seconded Mark Burrows)
Overall the club made a loss of £239, which was covered by existing funds.
It was reported we had made an early donation of £150 to Ex Services Club to
cover the use of facilities for 2011; this was made to help with their cash
flow. We also purchased a secondhand digital projector for £120; this is
used for training, which has been responsible for our increase in
membership. We also had the club rig serviced and purchased cable and guys
for field day use. Without these expenditures next year, we should break
even or make a small profit. Annual subscription has been raised at £15 to
include the ex-services club fee. Financial report included at Annex 2.
Annual report presented and accepted (Proposed
Bob Bennett, Seconded Simon Kerr)
The
secretary presented the club report; see Annex 1. Last Years Action Plan was
updated as below:
Action
Plan 2010
Overarching objective for the
year is to provide a regular timetable of lectures/workshops/training that
will sustain a club of circa 40 members, to organise field events in the
summer months and to enter some HF/VHF/UHF contests.
1
Internet Publicity
Bob Bennett will take on publicity role and continue as web master.
Members are requested to provide articles for the news on the site.
Timetable of club meetings and events will be supplied on a regular basis to
Radcom and GB2RS news. Articles will be supplied for local paper and radio
stations to increase public awareness.
2
Shack Equipment Now that the SGC tuner and the FT847 are working;
the purchase of an FT4540AT although approved will be delayed until more use
is made of the existing rigs. Antenna workshops will target getting the
80m/40m HF set up properly at the club for AFS contests. A request will be
prepared for Ex Services club to use the room upstairs as a mini shack to
allow on the air evenings in parallel with other meetings in the shack.
3
Training, Courses will continue in 2011 at all levels. Four tutors
currently available with two others offering their services after completion
of their training. John Rogers is offering training to local schools under
the STEM ambassador’s scheme and would welcome help from other club members.
Mike Finn will be requested to coordinate training. Clive Woodley will help
with Morse Training.
4
Timetable Events / Lectures Field Days, antenna and other workshops,
competitions are this years priorities. A proposed timetable was approved.
5
6
Junksale Mark 2E0SBM will organise this quarterly event.
7
Special events ROTA GB4BLR and CHOTA GB2BOH will be supported again
in 2011.
8
Field Days Joint meetings with LDX are proposed this summer and will
include some presentations and workshops. Contest field days are also
proposed and a decision is needed on which ones to follow up.
9
Contests Vinny 2E0COV appointed to coordinate club entries in VHF
and HF contests.
10
Social evenings will remain informal first Wednesday of month.
11
HARESNET Tuesdays at 19.30 starting on HT and QSY’ing if people
wish, net coordinator Norman G4ALB. A HF net on 80m will be considered.
The
officers of the club were elected
/coopted as Norman Castledine (President), Colin Brink
(Treasurer), John Rogers (Secretary), Clive Woodley (Exam Secretary), Mike
Finn (Training Coordinator), Vinny Hopkins (Contests), Bob Bennett
(Publicity), Mark Burrows (Junk Sale), Jayne Burrows (social).
AOB
In the absence of further
business the meeting closed at 8.42. There then followed the club Christmas
party which proved a great success.
John Rogers
8/12/10
Annex 1
Progress on 2010 AGM action plan.
Action Plan 2010
Overarching objective for the year
was achieved by providing one lecture and one workshop each month to the 43
enrolled members. Regular training courses at all levels and two Special
Event Stations were also organised. The club came fifth in Region 13 club of
the year.
12
Internet Publicity Bob Bennett has continued to update the website
with provided copy and pictures including Programme, Training Courses, news
pages, photo gallery and the special event stations GB4BLR and GB2BOH. HARES
facebook page has also been used to publicize events to club members along
with email shots. More articles for the newsletter are still needed.
13
Shack Equipment The sgc tuner has been tested and its leads
extended. It was used for ROTA; but a long wire needs to be mounted across
the roof to use it in the shack. During the Antenna workshops a ZS6BKW was
built and used for CHOTA. It could be mounted permanently at the club if
suitable fixing points can be found otherwise it can be temporarily set up
for contests. The 2m 70cm antenna was raised and faulty connector rectified.
The FT847 was checked out by Yaesu UK and now seems to work better although
no specific fault was found. The room upstairs has been used for training
and if tidied up would be a useful mini shack to allow on the air evenings
in parallel with other meetings in the shack. A better HF antenna is still
needed. It was decided to postpone purchase of a new HF (FT450AT) until more
use was made of the current transceiver.
14
Training, Courses held 3 Foundation, 2 Intermediate and 1 Advanced.
We now have 3 trainers one of whom M0MPF is train the trainers qualified
(M0JAV & M0LTD). Demand remains high for training in the area. A second-hand
projector was purchased to help with training.
15
Timetable Events / Lectures Seven outside speakers presented talks
on DXpeditions, QSL cards, Radar re-enactment, work of the RSGB, Antennas,
DSTAR, GB3HT repeater, EME and SDR. These were well received but typical
attendance was 6 members often with more in the bar. The programme was
published in RADCOM and on RSGB news as well as on the web. Better support
is needed if we are asking people to travel long distances to give a talk.
Seven antenna workshops were held and proved popular additional workshops
are timetabled for next year. The timetable for the next half-year is
included as an appendix to this report.
16
Junksale Mark 2E0SBM collected items and organised 2 Junk Sales with
limited interest but raised nearly 30 for the club, these will continue next
year.
17
Special events CHOTA 11 September GB2BOH was set up as a special
event station at Breedon on the Hill jointly with Leicester DX group, 78
contacts made including 8 churches and lots of fun had. ROTA 25-26 September
2010 GB4BLR was very well supported including a Saturday evening barbecue.
Over 400 contacts were made, including 18 ROTA stations. BLR has been
approached to agree to us setting up Shackerstone for 2011 with the
possibility of a second station at Market Bosworth, CHOTA will again be
supported but just as a day trip.
18
Field Days Joint meetings with LDX are again possible this summer
and could include some workshops. Contest field days - a decision is needed
on which ones to follow up. DRM131 is looking into a joint Leicestershire
clubs field day this summer.
19
Contest the committee proposes that we enter AFS and low power field
day this year. Contest coordinator needs to be appointed by committee
20
Social evenings will remain informal first Wednesday of month a
joint evening with Leicester DX club.
21
HARESNET Tuesdays at 19.30 starting on HT and QSY’ing if people
wish, net coordinator G4ALB appointed.
22
Lottery Grant Apply for training aids and a field kit for SES,
Raynet, Field Contests (Laptop,
Suggestions for topics / speakers have been collected:
Echolink
IRLP
Contesting
DVdongle
Approved at 2011 AGM
Proposed by Vinnie
Hopkins, Seconded by Mark Burrows
No corrections noted
Proposed
Timetable.
G3VLG
Following several weeks of
communications with OFCOM, the HARES original Club Callsign held on our behalf
by Tony G3SVT, has been re issued to us, with Vinny M0TAV as the licence holder
Leicester
Radio Society are holding a Bring and Buy/Surplus to requirements SALE
please see www.g3lrs.co.uk home page for details. You are all very welcome to
both buy and sell if you wish. Please note 10% of all sales will be
donated to LRS club funds
The next Advanced training at HARESwill start on
Wednesday 11th January. If anyone is interested in joining the class please e-mail
training@hares.freenetname.co.uk
H.A.R.E.S. was
founded in November 1971, the first meeting being held at the Technical college
on London Road Hinckley. This years AGM will be held on 23rd November 2011
at the current venue, the Ex Services Club on Station Road Hinckley, commencing
at 19:30. The AGM will be followed by a social evening to celebrate the
the 40th anniversary of H.A.R.E.S.
GB4BLR
2011
Over the
weekend of 24th-25th September 2011, members of H.A.R.E.S.
activated the Special Event Station GB4BLR from Shackerstone station on the
Battlefield Line Railway. This special event station was in support of
Railways On The Air, which commemorates the first steam passenger train which
ran on the Stockton & Darlington railway on 27th September 1825. This event is
held annually on the nearest weekend to the 27th September and this is the third
year that H.A.R.E.S. members have taken part. More information can be found on the Railways On The Air
WEB site at
http://rota.m0php.net/stations/year/2011
GB2BOH 2011
On Saturday 10th September
2011, members of
Hinckley Amateur Radio and Electronics Society operated Special Event Station
GB2BOH from Breedon Priory, formerly known as St. Mary and St. Hardulph
Breedon on the Hill, with some of the more adventurous camping out over night on
Friday.
BiWota
Members of
(H.A.R.E.S.) will be operating on the Ashby Canal near Hinckley on 29-31st July.
The station will be operating from TS Amazon, the Hinckley Sea Cadets
headquarters.
Castles and Stately Homes On The Air (CASHOTA)
Please could the following information be
included in the news and passed to as many amateurs as possible.
** May 2011 will be the month for chasing castles and stately homes on
air. The weekend of the 21st and 22nd will be international castles weekend
from 1am sat 21st till 11pm sun 22nd. This weekend is open to anyone world
wide and if interested in activating a historical site then please contact
your local representative. for uk stations information can be found at
www.cashota.co.uk,
www.cashota-ni.org or
www.cashota-ireland.org.
But if you miss the first event then theres also
the following weekend, the UK and Ireland cashota weekend. This event will
start 00.00 sat 28th and end 00.00 sun 29th. Castles and stately homes on
the air is open to anyone, and for those who wish to activate a location it
is very simple. Contact your local area representative (details on
www.cashota.co.uk),
complete the activation form, a minimum of 10 dasy before the weekend and
submit to be allocated your location reference. For more information
contact Chris M0DOL on 07720580968 Bobby
MI0RYL on 07751007490 or see
www.cashota.co.uk
Many thanks
Bobby
MI0RYL
H.A.R.E.S. Publicity
The article below is from The Hinckley Times
25th March 2011
Etiquette
It is important to remember that anyone may
be listening including short wave listeners considering becoming amateurs.
Abuse and bad language are not part of amateur radio and on-air transmissions
should always be polite and respectful. It is also worth remembering that
radio has no boundaries and your remarks may be heard in other countries with
different cultures and beliefs. Indeed it is in being able to talk with such
people that gives amateur radio the richness it enjoys.
Sadly there are those who do seem to find
entertainment in disrupting other people’s conversations, playing music and
being generally abusive. This kind of behaviour has no place in amateur radio.
If you do overhear such material or feel it is directed at you the important
thing to remember is that you must not react or respond to it. That is often
what the abuser wants you to do so they can send even more abuse. Talking to
an unlicensed station is a breach of your own licence and could get you a bad
name or reported to the authorities as well. Simply find another channel or
frequency. If it is on a calling frequency or a repeater wait a while and see
if the problem has ceased. The abuser should not even know he has been heard.
Advice on many aspects of operating and
ethics can be found on the RSGB web site at
www.rsgb.org/operating/.
It is worth reading!
Persistent abuse can be reported to the
RSGB’s Amateur Radio Observation Service (AROS) but any formal action requires
good evidence, dates, times, locations and recordings and will also have to
take its turn in being followed up. Obviously you must not put yourself in an
awkward position but AROS operates in a strictly confidential manner with RSGB
headquarters at Bedford as the only contact point.
Exam
Passes
We now have Phil M0VVZ, Wayne
M0WRM, Vinny M0TAV, Doug M0MDO, and Ellen who took the exam early M0HEL.
Unfortunately Kevin failed, the formulae probably
spooked him again.
I am delighted, 5 out of 6 on an advanced is
the best we have achieved at HARES. We are all very proud of you all.
You all made my week it feels great to have helped
you on the way....
Regards and 73 de
John Rogers (M0JAV & VK2JAV)
Subject: Region 131 report March 2011 Please could
R131 clubs please print this report and put it on their
noticeboards
A quiet time of year but still lots being planned:
LRS are launching an updated website on March 7th
Special Event Stations & Field Days
In nearby Warwickshire Brian G8GMU and members of
Coventry ARS hosted GB4WWR on February 26th to
commemorate the first radar experiment 76 years ago .
March will see Jim Lee G4AEH (trustee of Castle Mead
Radio in Hinckley) and Jerry Davis G3WTD (presenter on
Castle Mead Radio) collaborate with HARES to put on
GB0CMR for Hospitals on the air in the Hinckley
Hospital a few hundred metres from the HARES shack.
June 11th is the Market Harborough Carnival where
WVARS will be putting on a station in the Carnival
Grounds. Visitors are more than welcome.
HARES are again planning GB2BOH for churches on the
air and GB4BLR for railways on the air in September.
Special Event Station GB0BON
In June 2010 Welland Valley Amateur Radio society
decided to put a special event amateur radio station
on air to commemorate the battle of Naseby, that was
won by Cromwell’s new model army and put an end to
three years of civil war. The station was set up at
Rupert’s Viewpoint on the 20th June and attracted a
number of visitors and made over 160 contacts in 8
hours including Japan in the east to the USA in the
west. A full report can be found on the
clubs Website, www.wvars.com/ and
was also published in Radcom in August 2010.
WVARS are again running special event station
GB0BON on June 19-20 2011 to commemorate the
366th anniversary of the decisive battle of
the English civil war on 14th June 1645 in the small
hamlet of Naseby just south of the town of
Market Harborough in Leicestershire. Thanks are due
to the landowners, Naseby Battlefield Project,
a charity No 1119178, for use of the land to the
rear of the car park for the station and
antennas. Rupert’s Viewpoint is one of the highest
vantage points in the area and was chosen by Prince
Rupert because of the all-round field of view, hence
it is a superb location for a VHF and UHF station.
For HF there is plenty of room to erect long wire
antennas clear of trees and other obstructions.
British inland Waterways on the air
(BiWota)
Since the article in the February issue of Radcom
there has been considerable interest in the
waterways on the air weekend and forty amateurs
are considering setting up stations.
The
event will be held on the weekend of the Inland
Waterways Festival on Saturday
30th- Sunday 31st July 2011 with amateurs
attempting to illuminate as many of the Inland
Waterways as possible. The acronym for the event
has been changed to BiWota to avoid confusion with
Wainwrights on the Air (WOTA). The event will be
run on similar lines to Railways on the Air and
further details of plans will be posted on the
website being set up at
http://www.biwota.org/ If
you are interested in participating please
contact John
Rogers M0JAV on 07836 731544 or at drm131@rsgb.org.uk Many
different types of station are proposed including
special event stations at locations associated
with historic water transport, boats, towpaths,
lakes, reservoirs, rivers, docks, plus pedestrian
and bicycle mobile and I am still hoping for a
canoe or kayak to come forward. There are 349
waterways listed on http://www.waterscape.com/
so there are plenty of other places to set up. I
plan to be at the AGM on 16th April if you want to
talk face to face.
Contests
DMUARC are 16th
in HF AFS superleague
MMARS are 58th
and WVARS are 62nd and LRS are 78th in 80m club
calls
HARES are currently 11th and
DMUARC 16th in 144MHz UKAC,
DMUARC are 12th and HARES 21st
in the 432 MHz UKAC.
HARES are 14th
(last) in 1.3GHz UKAC contest
HARES are 8th in
50MHz UKAC contest
Training
HARES added four Advanced passes in February and is
currently running foundation and intermediate
courses
Hares will be running additional training for new
licence holders to help them get used to operating
on repeaters, on DX and in contests, all
opportunities will be taken to promote good
operating etiquette during this training.
Meetings and Upcoming Events
LRG are awaiting better weather to do some aerial
work on site.
MMARS have talks March 18 on Wildlife Photos
during DXpeditions, and have a construction
contest on May 20th and their annual fox hunt on
June 17
HARES has a talk on Health and Safety for Special
Events on March 16th and on SDR and propagation
over the north pole on April 27th and has a
workshop on digital modes on March 9th.
WVARS have a talk on Bonito sw on March 21st and
their annual DF hunt on July 18th.
LRS has a talk on PCB CAD on March 14th and on
alarms and house security on 28th March
Collaboration between groups in
Leicestershire.
The first issue of the list of speakers in clubs
has been reported as useful by club secretaries. On
May 16th WVARS visiting to the Kettering Club. HARES
and LDX meet jointly for a social evening on the
first Wednesday of each month.
Issues
Problems with complaints about poor use of GB3CF
continue, but active campaigning has discouraged
some individuals. HARES had a soapbox forum
addressing this issue which allowed members to
express their frustration with people keying up
over their transmissions even during contests
and suggested how they should avoid escalating
the problem. Foundation and Intermediate licence
holders have been encouraged to use the repeater
with help from full licence holders when the
jokes start about their cornflake packet
licences. Some illegal users have been traced
and discouraged from continuing.
RSGB Support
M0JAV is giving talks on SDR to Lincoln Radio
Club on 23 March and to LDARC on May 24th and
WVARS on October 17th(tbc). Regular contact
maintained with HARES and LDX as I attend most
of their meetings as a member.
I will be visiting LRS on March 28th, and MMARS on
March 18th. The other groups in leicestershire do
not have regular meetings (NSCARS, LRG, DMUARS)
Regards and 73 de
John Rogers (M0JAV & VK2JAV)
Denby Dale
Amateur Radio Society will be operating GB200HNC from Tunnel End, Marsden, near
Huddersfield over the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd 2011.
The event, organised by British Waterways, is to celebrate the 200th
anniversary of the opening of Standedge Tunnel on April 4th 1811. The
tunnel is the highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel in the UK, stretching
for 5,029 metres (3.25 miles) through hard millstone grit. An engineering marvel
worked on by Thomas Telford, the tunnel runs from Marsden in Yorkshire through
to Diggle in Lancashire.
Reopened in 2001 after a 20 year restoration programme,
the Standedge Tunnel & Visitor Centre sits on the banks of the historic
Huddersfield Narrow Canal, a waterway of startling contrasts, from tranquil
countryside to dramatic mills.
The event is a
real family weekend featuring tunnel “legging”, craft fare, canal craft
demonstrations and much, much more and will be open from 10am to 4pm each day.
DDARS have
obtained the SPECIAL, special call sign GB200HNC, Golf Bravo Two Hundred
Huddersfield Narrow Canal and will be operating on all HF bands over the whole
weekend. The station will be located on the first floor of the Visitor Centre in
the Thomas Bourne room. Loc: IO93AO, WAB SE01
Full
details from Richard M0RBG:
m0rbg@talktalk.net
or 07976 220126
See also:
www.g4cdd.net;
www.standedge.co.uk
Minutes of Annual General Meeting of Hinckley Amateur Radio and Electronics
Society.
held
at Ex Services Club Station Road Hinckley at 7.45pm on Wednesday 8th
December 2010
Present Norman Castledine, Colin Brink, John Rogers, Mark Burrows, Jayne
Burrows, Clive Woodley, Simon Kerr, Bob Bennett, Doug McAuslan, Phil Haywood,
Michael Whotton, Matthew Calvert, Ian Truslove, Roger Burrows, Rod Booth,
Darren Rayne, Vinny Hopkins, Craig Tongue, Tamer Akay, Malcolm Quemby, Ellen
Scott.
Apologies Paul Savage, Mike Finn, Stephen Burrows, Wayne Mellar.
Agenda
Review
and approval of minutes of Last Years AGM -Colin Brink
Presentation and Approval of Accounts of HARES -Colin Brink
Presentation / Discussion of Club Annual Report -John Rogers
Nomination and election of Committee for 2011 -All
Suggestions for events in 2011
-All
AOB
Routine business including approval of minutes (proposed Bob Bennett
seconded Jayne Burrows) was concluded quickly. A vote of thanks was given to
club officers for their efforts during the year.
Financial report presented and accepted (proposed Simon Kerr seconded Mark
Burrows)
Overall the club made a loss of £239, which was covered by existing funds. It
was reported we had made an early donation of £150 to Ex Services Club to
cover the use of facilities for 2011; this was made to help with their cash
flow. We also purchased a secondhand digital projector for £120; this is used
for training, which has been responsible for our increase in membership. We
also had the club rig serviced and purchased cable and guys for field day use.
Without these expenditures next year, we should break even or make a small
profit. Annual subscription has been raised at £15 to include the ex-services
club fee. Financial report included at Annex 2.
Annual report presented and accepted (Proposed Bob Bennett,
Seconded Simon Kerr)
The
secretary presented the club report; see Annex 1. Last Years Action Plan was
updated as below:
Action Plan 2010
Overarching objective for the year is to provide a regular
timetable of lectures/workshops/training that will sustain a club of circa 40
members, to organise field events in the summer months and to enter some
HF/VHF/UHF contests.
1
Internet Publicity Bob Bennett
will take on publicity role and continue as web master. Members are requested
to provide articles for the news on the site. Timetable of club meetings and
events will be supplied on a regular basis to Radcom and GB2RS news. Articles
will be supplied for local paper and radio stations to increase public
awareness.
2
Shack Equipment
Now that the SGC tuner and the FT847 are working; the purchase of an FT4540AT
although approved will be delayed until more use is made of the existing rigs.
Antenna workshops will target getting the 80m/40m HF set up properly at the
club for AFS contests. A request will be prepared for Ex Services club to use
the room upstairs as a mini shack to allow on the air evenings in parallel
with other meetings in the shack.
3
Training,
Courses will continue in 2011 at all levels. Four tutors currently available
with two others offering their services after completion of their training.
John Rogers is offering training to local schools under the STEM ambassador’s
scheme and would welcome help from other club members. Mike Finn will be
requested to coordinate training. Clive Woodley will help with Morse Training.
4
Timetable Events / Lectures
Field Days, antenna and other workshops, competitions are this years
priorities. A proposed timetable was approved.
5
Junksale
Mark 2E0SBM will organise this quarterly event.
6
Special events
ROTA GB4BLR and CHOTA GB2BOH will be supported again in 2011.
7
Field Days
Joint meetings with LDX are proposed this summer and will
include some presentations and workshops. Contest field days are also proposed
and a decision is needed on which ones to follow up.
8
Contests
Vinny 2E0COV appointed to coordinate club entries in VHF and HF contests.
9
Social evenings
will remain informal first Wednesday of month.
10
HARESNET
Tuesdays at 19.30 starting on HT and QSY’ing if people
wish, net coordinator Norman G4ALB. A HF net on 80m will be considered.
The officers of the club were elected /coopted
as Norman Castledine (President), Colin Brink (Treasurer), John Rogers
(Secretary), Clive Woodley (Exam Secretary), Mike Finn (Training Coordinator),
Vinny Hopkins (Contests), Bob Bennett (Publicity), Mark Burrows (Junk Sale),
Jayne Burrows (social).
AOB
In the absence of further business the meeting closed at
8.42. There then followed the club Christmas party that proved a great
success.
John Rogers
8/12/10
Annex 1
Progress on 2010 AGM action plan.
Action Plan 2010
Overarching objective for the year was achieved by
providing one lecture and one workshop each month to the 43 enrolled members.
Regular training courses at all levels and two Special Event Stations were
also organised. The club came fifth in Region 13 club of the year.
11
Internet Publicity
Bob Bennett has continued to update the website with provided copy and
pictures including Programme, Training Courses, news pages, photo gallery and
the special event stations GB4BLR and GB2BOH. HARES facebook page has also
been used to publicize events to club members along with email shots. More
articles for the newsletter are still needed.
12
Shack Equipment
The sgc tuner has been tested and its leads extended. It was used for ROTA;
but a long wire needs to be mounted across the roof to use it in the shack.
During the Antenna workshops a ZS6BKW was built and used for CHOTA. It could
be mounted permanently at the club if suitable fixing points can be found
otherwise it can be temporarily set up for contests. The 2m 70cm antenna was
raised and faulty connector rectified. The FT847 was checked out by Yaesu UK
and now seems to work better although no specific fault was found. The room
upstairs has been used for training and if tidied up would be a useful mini
shack to allow on the air evenings in parallel with other meetings in the
shack. A better HF antenna is still needed. It was decided to postpone
purchase of a new HF (FT450AT) until more use was made of the current
transceiver.
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Training,
Courses held 3 Foundation, 2 Intermediate and 1 Advanced. We now have 3
trainers one of whom M0MPF is train the trainers qualified (M0JAV & M0LTD).
Demand remains high for training in the area. A second-hand projector was
purchased to help with training.
14
Timetable Events / Lectures
Seven outside speakers presented talks on DXpeditions, QSL cards, Radar
re-enactment, work of the RSGB, Antennas, DSTAR, GB3HT repeater, EME and SDR.
These were well received but typical attendance was 6 members often with more
in the bar. The programme was published in RADCOM and on RSGB news as well as
on the web. Better support is needed if we are asking people to travel long
distances to give a talk. Seven antenna workshops were held and proved popular
additional workshops are timetabled for next year. The timetable for the next
half-year is included as an appendix to this report.
15
Junksale
Mark 2E0SBM collected items and organised 2 Junk Sales with
limited interest but raised nearly 30 for the club, these will continue next year.
16
Special events
CHOTA 11 September GB2BOH was set up as a special event station at Breedon on
the Hill jointly with Leicester DX group, 78 contacts made including 8
churches and lots of fun had. ROTA 25-26 September 2010 GB4BLR was very well
supported including a Saturday evening barbecue. Over 400 contacts were made,
including 18 ROTA stations. BLR has been approached to agree to us setting up
Shackerstone for 2011 with the possibility of a second station at Market
Bosworth, CHOTA will again be supported but just as a day trip.
17
Field Days
Joint meetings with LDX are again possible this summer and
could include some workshops. Contest field days - a decision is needed on
which ones to follow up. DRM131 is looking into a joint Leicestershire clubs
field day this summer.
18
Contest
the committee proposes that we enter AFS and low power
field day this year. Contest coordinator needs to be appointed by committee
19
Social evenings
will remain informal first Wednesday of month a joint
evening with Leicester DX club.
20
HARESNET
Tuesdays at 19.30 starting on HT and QSY’ing if people
wish, net coordinator G4ALB appointed.
21
Lottery Grant
Apply for training aids and a field kit for SES, Raynet,
Field Contests (Laptop,
Suggestions
for topics / speakers have been collected:
Echolink
IRLP
Contesting
DVdongle
Proposed
Timetable.
