meeting Thursday 30th April: field day prep/practical session at Nick M0NPK's

[John Gumb]

Folks,

This Thursday 30th April we are over at Nick M0NPK's place for a bunch of practical activities.

Venue:

Lever's Piece Farm, Ryehurst Lane, Binfield. RG42 5QZ 

And thanks to Ted for the What 3 words location for the entrance: proven.bleat.point.

Start time: 7:30pm onward. Not critical.

If you have not seen Nick's station before, it's well worth coming over for a look.

Activities include:

* RSGB 80m RTTY on Thursday if we wanted to do a multi-op entry? 8pm to 9.30pm local. It's the club championships so it's a great opportunity to support RADARC. (details at https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/contest-news/2026/04/24/contest-news-26-april-2026/)

* Investigating a sub-optimal 70cm beam. Needs stern words, at the very least.

* Club SDR maintenance - investigate strong (non-M0NPK) signals on 2 metres (pagers or something) causing banding on the waterfall. Generally give the SDR some love. Additional filtering required?

* Feel free to bring along feeders/connectors/antennas etc. for analysis as we'll have the spectrum analyser & VSWR attachment there.

* Ham Van prep. ready for the field day season.

* A good old natter.

A huge thank-you to Nick for hosting us, as ever.

Humble apologies for the gremlins last meeting. We had multiple late-breaking challenges facing us and we did all we could under the circumstances.

73

John

G4RDC