Cockenzie & Port Seton

Amateur Radio Club is

affiliated to the Radio

Society of Great Britain

and holds the call signs

MM0CPS and GM2T which

are used for our special

event and contest entries.

The Club was formed by

Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ in

1984, to help the local

amateurs get to know each

other.

Far from being just a local

club we have members

regularly attending from

the Borders, Dumfries,

Strathclyde, Fife and

Newcastle.

The Club meets on the first

Friday of every month

(Second Friday of January)

in the lounge of the

Thorntree Inn on the old

Cockenzie High Street from

7pm till late.

Onto another month and another editorial, already this is the third one for this year, my how time flies by!!!! One thing is noticeable and that the evenings are now beginning to “stretch out” and aiming away from what I call the winter doldrums. Thank goodness for that say’s I. In some respects I like the dark nights where one can get nice and cosy sitting watching the television but if I am perfectly honest I do prefer the light nights as it allows one to get out and about instead of vegetating in front of the “box”.

Ok then what have we been up to this month; first of all we had our annual radio check night run by John MM0JXI and hopefully he will have some sort of write up about in the newsletter. It is a great event to put your radios through their paces so nice to see many turning up to take part. Tomorrow sees the Advanced (Full) class sit their exam so I wish them on behalf of us all, all the best. I also have two people who are re-sitting their Foundation exam so I wish them all the best as well.

Tomorrow, 7th March, is my last date of my training for the winter 2014 – Spring 2015 training session and I am really looking forward to a well earned rest, having said that my XYL has been lining lots of things up for me to do so again it looks like radio will once again be taking a back seat. I certainly feel I need it, before I start up again in August/September. I am already looking at dates for my next winter training program for 2015 - 2016 and once I get them finalised I will get them published in the newsletter and also up on the website. Our next event

in March is a Construction Night which Cephas MM0INS is organising. A power Supply kit has been ordered for those who said they wanted to build one, if you are interested in joining us with the construction program then you can contact Cephas on mm0ins@cpsarc.com this will be held in the Port Seton Community Centre Resources Room on the 20th March between 19:00 and 21:00. I do hope many of you will make the effort to come along and support even if you are not going to build anything.

To the future I have not got around to getting something organised. It may be an event in the Community Centre but I am also thinking about a day out for the family wand if that is the case it will be on the Saturday. As soon as I have something sorted out I will get back in touch.

Lastly, if I have any thing to say this month it is the old hobby horse of looking for newsletter input. Thanks to those who have been contributing but we need more. Lots of people intimate that they will but never do. I do struggle from month to month to write articles and I really genuinely could do with some help so this is a plea from the heart for articles. It would be fantastic to have a good pool of articles that John can select from.

Right I think that is about it so enjoy club night and the newsletter.

Bob GM4UYZ

The Club

The Club is run in a very

informal way, just a group

of like minded people

doing something they

enjoy!

This does not mean that

we don’t do anything, we

enter (and win!) contests,

train newcomers, hold

talks and video nights and

run a popular annual Junk

Sale. Our newsletter has

won the Practical Wireless

‘Spotlight’ competition on

several occasions.

The Club supports the

British Heart Foundation

in memory of a member

who died from heart dis-

ease by donating the

profits from some of the

events we hold, we have

raised over £15,832 since

1994.

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Supported by BT Community

Champions

11th February 2015 00:00 to 23:59

This is our second one of the year... so here’s a report below on who or who didn’t take part Apologies first: Cephas MM0INS Nil return from me I'm afraid... as on holiday Martyn MM0XXW Sorry nothing from me Bob, nightshift!!! Andrew MM0GYG I’m afraid I missed the activity day again this month. At least I have a good excuse — I was helping to look after my week-old grandson. I’ll miss next month too as I’ll be on holiday. I’m retiring soon so I should manage the oth-er activity days. Geoff MM5AHO No log as not QRV on HF, but did have an interesting QSO on 2m while mobile, through CS repeater to a guy on a yacht at Ardrossan. I last worked this guy 2 years ago, when we were both /mm out at sea, him on south coast (Solent) and me West Coast Scotland. Rickie GM1PLY I don't play much on the old fashioned fre-quencies, I do my radio playing on up to date modes????? Ron GM0NTL Sri Bob, have now gone QRT until next year sometime Chris MM0YAB Sorry Bob I didn’t get a chance to get on Brian M0RNR Sorry Bob nothing from me I was in London Geoff GM0LOD You may think that when you retire that all the time is yours. I thought about it and I had all the best of intentions then the “Burns syn-drome” kicked in. The “Burns syndrome” is that the best laid schemes o’mice and men etc. Ho hum and it was yet another blank log. Sorry!!! Sohun MM0SBE I did not make it on the day. Hopefully in the coming months. I have to say, the bands have not been great lately. Sean MM0SRY

Hi bob sorry didn't manage to get on Colwyn MM0YCJ I failed miserably to get on air on 11th Feb. I have been up Ben Nevis winter climbing last two weekends which has been excellent as I need to take these chances when they arise. I did get out yesterday on a small hill near Crianlarich (625m, Fiarach), but that was on the 15th February. It took 1 hour 15 minutes to walk to the summit and I made 13 QSOs from the snowy summit on 20m, mainly Spanish and German stations which gives the rough skip distance yesterday, no UK sta-tions. I have a raised SWR but unable to find the fault, maybe a parted wire on the IV di-pole as it was getting buffeted by the gale force winds! Was pretty cold though so glad to finish and bumble back down the hill in about 45 minutes to reach the car by which time I was at least warm again. Reports: Bob GM4UYZ I managed to get about 30 minutes after coming home from work and then after my tea I had family visitors all evening. Maybe next month I may get on for longer Duncan MM0GZZ Well managed a few today the 10mtr band was good with China, South Africa, Chile, Brazil and Namibia with Serbia, Italy and Poland on the 30mtr band 22 QSO’s from 17 DXCC’s can’t be too bad so until next month Bob 2M0KLL Only two QSO’s didn’t want "teacher" to think I wasn’t doing my homework! Not so as you would notice mind you. Alisdair MM0XAB Here is my log not much because I spent a lot of time when I could fighting to get K1N Navassa which I did get the next day ((COOSHTY)). Really pleased with this one Bob I pushed the boat out on this with a whole 30w on RTTY second call and the DX gods blessed me HiHi. Maybe in ten years time when there back at Navassa Island I will have a much bigger antenna and RF PWR to

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fight through the absolute madness and chaos of QRM’ers and huge split frequency spreads of getting K1N on Phone and on many more bands. Bob GM4IKT Only managed 2 contacts Bob, even got up early because

Wednesday is usually a busy day for me

It is great to see that there is still at least some interest in the Activity Days but to honest I thought more would take part. I know conditions are variable but unless you go on and give it a try you will never know. Overall the 24 hour time is certainly helping in the sense that it is not restricted to a few hours as it is allowing people to come on and take part when time is available to them. Let’s keep this up as this in my opinion is what the hobby is all about. With regard to modes being worked then out of the 33 QSO’s made: CW = 2, SSB = 2 and Data = 29. Data Modes seem to be winning hands down at the moment. Best DX was on 35 watts using PSK31working CA7CAQ (Chile) at a distance of 12884 Kms on 10M. Made by Duncan MM0GZZ...well done Duncan. With regard the rest of the QSO’s they were predominantly the normal European contacts with a mixture of some good DX

The Activity Days for 11th March 2015 and I hope everyone and even more of you will at least take part and submit their logs or even if they don’t make any contacts tell us about what it was like. Good DXing in 2015. Summary of who did what: Total QSO’s 2 = CW, 2 = SSB, 29 = DATA Bob GM4IKT SSB: 1 x 10M, 1 x 15M Bob GM4UYZ Data: 4 x 20M Duncan MM0GZZ Data: 18 x 10M, 3 x 30M Alisdair MM0XAB Data: 2 x 10M, 1 x 12M, 1 x 15M Bob 2M0KLL CW: 1 x 10M, 1 x 15M Thanks to those who came on it was much appreciated. Bob GM4UYZ

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Club Attire

The club has a design for

Club Tee-shirts, Polo-

shirts, Sweat-Shirts,

Fleeces and Jackets and all

of these can be obtained

from the address below.

When making an order

please quote ‘Cockenzie &

Port Seton Amateur Radio

Club’ as this will ensure

that the Club Logo will be

placed on the required

ordered garments.

If you wish to add your call

-sign to the logo then

please ask at the time of

the order.

Cost will depend on

garment and should cover

the garment and logo, call-

sign addition will be extra.

Order from:

PATRICIA BEWSEY DESIGNS, UNIT 11, FENTON BARNS RETAIL VILLAGE, FENTON BARNS, NORTH BERWICK, EAST LOTHIAN EH39 5BW Tel/Fax: 01620 850788

Mobile: 07970 920431

MM0XAB working K1N on RTTY

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For many of you the jest I get on a club night “here he is again giving us a tick in the register”, to the newcomers you may wonder why I do it, ok I am sad but I know that. Basically though it all started as I was just interested on who had come to a club night plus I do keep a record of all what goes on within the club in files at the local library as part of the town’s Local History. Like all statistics lots of “things” can be read into them so I suppose in reality you take out of them what you want. With regard to club members well you became one the minute you walked in the door on an official club night, easy is it not. When I look back over my whole list of people who have actually came through the door, 279 in total since I start-ed keeping the “tick “sheet, it is interesting to note them all. Some people only came once some come a few times and some have come more or less each club night. Some of the old regulars have moved away and can’t attend, some are totally constrained by a change in their working lives and sadly some are no longer with us. Yes maybe I am sad but I can just about remember each and everyone.

My dream for a club night is for everyone who has ever been to actually turn up, now that would be a night. Another dream is much on the same line but to hold a huge “convention” for the lack of a better word, with guest speakers, stalls, etc, etc, now this is just not a dream but a nigh on impossibil-ity, any way there you go.

The table 1 is all about the number of times that someone has attended a club night since November 1992. Since then up until the May 2011 club night it is a total of 268 club nights. You have to remember that people have started coming to the club as recent as Feb-ruary past or as long as since I started making notes so in essence the table can look mis-construed. Still makes interesting reading though.

Table 2 is to show how many different peo-ple visited the club that year. Basically every-one starts a fresh each year so it just show for example in 2003 62 different amateurs/SWL’s came through the doors on a club night.

No matter what, I just hope that the club will keep on going from year to year, that the old regulars will continue to support it, some of the people who came in the past will return and more so that we can keep on encourag-ing new blood to come along.

Without any one, there is no club and it will die, hopefully it will never happen, so folks if you are reading this after down-loading the newsletter of the web and you are close enough to attend a radio club night why not come along and collect your personal copy on the actual night. Club nights are the 1st Fri-day of each month except January where it is the 2nd Friday and the July club night is the last Friday in June due to VHF Field Day being on the first weekend of July and a lot of club members attend this.

Look forward to seeing you all.

Bob GM4UYZ

No. of Club Nights

Number attended

YEAR No. of People Via the door

0 – 9 184 1992 33

10 – 19 29 1993 62

20 – 29 15 1994 53

30 – 39 5 1995 62

40 – 49 5 1996 61

50 – 59 6 1997 74

60 – 69 5 1998 63

70 – 79 6 1999 61

80 – 89 2 2000 53

90 – 99 2 2001 46

100 – 109 2 2002 45

110 – 119 2 2003 62

120 – 129 0 2004 53

130 – 139 3 2005 46

140 – 149 1 2006 50

150 – 159 1 2007 41

160 – 169 1 2008 28

170 --179 1 2009 44

180 -- 189 0 2010 42

190 -- 199 0 2011 39

200 -- 209 1 2012 49

210 -- 219 2 2013 36

220 -- 229 0 2014 39

230 - -239 0 2015 20

240 -- 249 0

250 -- 259 0

260 -- 269 1

270 -- 279 0

Thanks to the sterling

work by M0RNR, our club

has been added to the

excellent Clublog system

developed by Michael

Wells G7VJR.

www.clublog.org

The system allows mem-

bers to upload their logs

in ADIF format and have

them displayed in a table

with all the other club

members.

Clublog also has great

facilities for tracking your

DXCC status etc. so is well

worth taking the time to

register and get your log

uploaded.

To update your log with

the next set of contacts

(SSB, CW or Data) you can

simply upload your whole

log again and the system

will take care of the dupli-

cates. Alternatively you

can export the bits you

want from your own log

and just upload that.

The tables we’ll publish

here will be the club, fil-

tered by the current year,

so everyone starts a new

year at 0 contacts.

A QSL Manager for any callsign can either be a

“breeze” or an absolute “nightmare”, so what

category do I fit into, that is a good question?

As most of you are aware I am the club’s QSL

Manager so I look after all the QSL cards for

MM0CPS, GM2T and all the Special Event

Callsigns that we have used i.e. GB2LBN,

GB2MOF, etc. So how do I do it you may ask?

Well it falls into different areas and these are

as follows:

QSL MANAGERS for each callsign:

I deal with three separate QSL Managers as

each are responsible for a certain series or

range of Callsigns and I must ensure that each

have adequate Envelopes with them so that

when any cards arrive they can be posted on.

To give you an idea the sort of volume of en-

velope returns for a year, since 1st January

2014 it goes something like this: Special Event

Callsigns – 27, MM0CPS – 5 and GM2T – 4 so

this equates to over 1000 QSL cards, other-

wise a lot of work.

QSLING:

The method that I use is that for all Special

Event Callsigns, Demonstration Stations and

any pre-contest QSO’s I QSL 100%. This can

range from writing just a few to over 1000

cards at one go so the work involved is there-

fore very small or very heavy indeed. No

matter what I always aim to have all the QSL

cards away to the bureau within 1 month at

the very latest after the event.

For all contest calls I only QSL if I receive a QSL

card and I sometimes wonder if this is the

correct decision when it comes to multiple

envelopes dropping through the letterbox.

DEALING WITH THE QSL CARDS:

The first big task no matter what the Callsign

being used is to ensure that adequate QSL

cards have been designed and are available

for each and every callsign. These days I order

them from UX5UO via M0OXO and I must ad-

mit I am very impressed with the service.

The first task that I undertake when a batch of

envelopes arrive through the door is to date

sort them as this makes the next stages a lot

easier to deal with.

For verification I use two methods:

Method 1: I keep a paper copy of the actual

contest or event and these I have filed away in

folders.

Method 2: The same paper copies have been

entered electronically into my computer

made very easy these days as we normally use

electronic logging and the facilities that it

offers makes this very easy to do. I use the

program Winlog32 where I keep 2 logs, one

for CONTESTS only and two for all other club

events.

My first task after the date sort is to “mark” of

the QSL card in the paper copy version. Once

this is done I then write all the QSL cards if

this is required, basically if it is a non-special

event QSL card I write a card. After this I

“mark” them off within Winlog32 adding into

the log any special information i.e. American

States/Counties, Locator Squares, WAB infor-

mation, etc. If I come across a QSL card that I

cannot find in the paper log I use Winlog32 to

check that we have a QSO and see where it

actually is. Quite often the times on the QSL

do no marry up with the information in our

log basically due to the Sender using his or

hers local time so by using this method I can

normally sort it out.

The next stage is to file the received cards

away. I have boxes that hold Special Event and

other QSL cards and boxes that contain only

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Contest QSL Card. Each box has a separator card with the

“Event/Contest” plus the date on it and the relevant QSL cards

are filed in behind it.

Lastly once all the cards are written it is a case of sorting them

for their specific country and then posting them to the QSL

bureau.

There you go then that’s how I deal with our QSL cards so you

can decide for your self then whether it is a “breeze” or an

absolute “nightmare”.

Bob GM4UYZ

We are planning to hold a Construction Night on Friday 20th March..

The idea is to build something which can be completed and tested in one night so we have to keep it pretty simple.

I have found and already tried out a suitable kit on Ebay (photo attached) which allows you to build a step down varia-ble voltage regulator which could be used to power any low voltage device or you could even make your own phone charger.

When built it can accept either AC or DC inputs between 5 – 30 V and gives a constantly variable output of between 2V – 30V at 1 Amp Max.

Whether or not you need one it should be a good night and you can either sharpen up your soldering skills or help out

those who are less experienced.

If you are interested in attending please let me know as the kits have to be ordered in advance.

For those who don’t already know my email is cephas.ralph@btopenworld.com.

Cost will be £4 for the kit plus the usual fee for the hire of the room.

Tea, coffee, tools and test equipment are all included.

Many thanks

Cephas

MM0INS

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On Friday 20 February we held one of our popular radio test

nights where club members can get their radios checked on

profession test gear.

I’ve been running these nights for many years and it’s great to

see the huge variety of equipment which is brought along for

testing, everything from home built kits to state of the art

modern HF and VHF rigs.

This year the test equipment I was using was a Marconi 2955

Radiocomms test set, a Rhode & Schwartz FSH3 spectrum ana-

lyser, a Bird Thruline power meter and RF sniffer.

This equipment allows me to measure RF power up to 500W

and generate and measure RF signals from HF up to 1GHz. The

spectrum analyser displays the radio spectrum up to 1GHz and

is able to show the harmonics of the transmitted signal.

We had several new people bringing radios for testing which is

great to see, and there was quite a bit of interest in the testing

process too.

I’m happy to say we didn’t find any faulty equipment and were

able to show that a kit built transceiver from a SK, was actually

operating on 80m rather than 40m as originally thought.

Thanks to everyone who brought along equipment and helped

set it up and operate it to work through the tests.

John MM0JXI

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I was asked the question very recently, “Do you think we have made DXCC at the club?” Interesting question I thought so I decided to investigate our logs. As most of you know as all the club calls, MM0CPS, GM2T, GB2LBN, GB2MOF and any others that we may have had are all a variation on my licence, hence the reason I am very strict to ensure that logs are kept, any way I diverge away from the topic. The fact that we have the callsigns then by our licensing conditions we used to have to keep a copy of the logs but nowadays it is not mandatory but I still keep them, I have separate paper and computer logs, one for the Special Events, etc and one for our contest activities.

For the computer log I use the program Winlog32 and I import the ADIF files produced by the logging programs that we use or have used i.e. WinTest,17NA, CT and GJV, into it. The beauty of using a computer log it makes looking at statistics very easy indeed so producing our DXCC status was very easy to do.

SPECIAL EVENTS, ETC (to 9th August 2014)

Callsigns Used: GB2MOF, GB2LBN, MM0CPS and others.

Number of QSO’s in the log: 38379

QSL Rate: 100% Out 43% Return

ALL BANDS / ALL MODES DXCC

Confirmed Countries: 109 WE HAVE DXCC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Worked but yet not Confirmed: 52

CONTESTS (to 26th October 2014)

Callsigns Used: MM0CPS, GM2T

Number of QSO’s in the log: 115883

QSL Rate: Only QSL if I receive a card

ALL BANDS / ALL MODES DXCC

Confirmed Countries: 176 WE HAVE DXCC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Worked but yet not Confirmed: 68

So yes we have gained our DXCC on both our contesting and on our special events. The next aim will to try and get DXCC on individual bands and that it going to be a lot harder. We are certainly doing well on the contesting side with 4 bands already achieving DXCC but this is due to taking part in IOTA and CQWW con-tests. I think though to achieve a “full house” for the individual band status then I would need to actively chase to get the required QSL Cards but I think it is quite “fun” to see what is being achieved without doing so.

I hope that answers the question that I was asked and I certainly enjoyed investigating the answer as it does make interesting reading.

Bob GM4UYZ

Band 1.8 3.5 7.0 14 18 21 24 28 50 70 144 432

Conf 3 31 52 97 24 57 0 27 1 0 1 0

Wkd 8 11 23 50 16 35 4 16 1 0 2 0

Band 1.8 3.5 7.0 14 18 21 24 28 50 70 144 432

Conf 59 91 104 145 0 145 0 116 36 6 17 4

Wkd 17 25 38 66 0 65 0 62 25 2 9 5

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March 2015

SARL Hamnet 40m Simulated Emerg Contest 1200Z-1400Z, Mar 1

RSGB 80m Club Championship Contest (data) 2000Z – 2130Z, Mar 2

RSGB 144MHz UK Activity Contest 2000Z – 2300Z, Mar 3

AGCW YL-CW Party 1900Z-2100Z, Mar 3

ARRL Inter. DX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Mar 7 to 2400Z, Mar 8

Wake-Up! QRP Sprint 0600Z-0800Z, Mar 7

SKCC Weekend Sprintathon 1200Z, Mar 7 to 2359Z, Mar 8

RSGB March 144 / 432 MHz Contest 1400Z, Mar 7 to 1400Z, Mar 8

DARC 10-Meter Digital Contest 1100Z-1700Z, Mar 8

RSGB 432MHz UK Activity Contest 2000Z – 2230Z, Mar 10

CWops Mini-CWT Test 1300Z, Mar 11 to 0400Z, Mar 12

RSGB 80m Club Championship Contest (CW) 2000Z – 2130Z, Mar 11

RSGB Commonwealth Contest (BERU)

(3.5 /7 14 / 21 /21 MHz CW)

1000Z, Mar 14 to 1000z, Mar 15

AGCW QRP Contest 1400Z-2000Z, Mar 14

EA PSK63 Contest 1600Z, Mar 14 to 1600Z, Mar 15

Idaho QSO Party 1900Z, Mar 14 to 1900Z, Mar 15

North American Sprint, RTTY 0000Z-0400Z, Mar 15

RSGB 70MHz Cumulative Contest #2 1000Z -1200Z, Mar 15

Wisconsin QSO Party 1800Z, Mar 15 to 0100Z, Mar 16

Run for the Bacon QRP Contest 0100Z-0300Z, Mar 16

RSGB 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest 2000Z – 2230Z, Mar 17

RSGB 80m Club Championship Contest (SSB) 2000Z – 2130Z, Mar 19

SARL VHF/UHF Analogue/Digital Contest 1600Z, Mar 20 to 1000Z, Mar 22

BARTG HF RTTY Contest 0200Z, Mar 21 to 0200Z, Mar 23

Russian DX Contest 1200Z, Mar 21 to 1200Z, Mar 22

SKCC Sprint 0000Z-0200Z, Mar 25

RSGB 50MHz UK Activity Contest 2000Z – 2230Z, Mar 24

RSGB SHF UK Activity Contest (except 2.3GHz 2030 - 2230 UTC 2000Z – 2230Z, Mar 24

CWops Mini-CWT Test 1300Z, Mar 25 to 0400Z, Mar 26

CQ WW WPX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Mar 28 to 2400Z, Mar 29

RSGB 70MHz UK Activity Contest 2000Z – 2230Z, Mar 31

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1. Harmonic radiation from a transmitter may be reduced

by

a. Adjusting the receiver’s audio gain control setting

b. Fitting a low pass filter in the antenna feeder to the

transmitter

c. Placing a high pass filter in the mains lead

d. The state of the sunspot cycle

2. The drawing shows a block diagram of a TRF (Straight)

receiver. Which one of the blocks selects the radio

signal?

a. Tuned circuit

b. Detector

c. Audio amplifier

d. Headphones

3. A radio receiver is set to receive a signal of 14.1 MHz

and the local oscillator is set to a frequency of 13.6

MHz. What will the intermediate frequency be?

a. 500kHz

b. 13.6MHz

c. 14.1MHz

d. 27.8MHz

4. The demodulator for a FM receiver

a. Requires a beat frequency oscillator

b. Requires a narrow band pass filter

c. Could be a frequency discriminator

d. Could be an envelope detector

5. The block diagram shows a Morse Code transmitter.

Which one of the following does block X represent?

a. AF Oscillator

b. RF Oscillator

c. Demodulator

d. Modulator

6. A carrier wave on 28400 KHz is amplitude modulated.

The upper sideband is 28402KHz the lower sideband is

a. 28396KHz

b. 28398KHz

c. 28404KHz

d. 28406KHz

7. A station in the 23cm band is being interfered with by

an amateur transmitter on the 70cm band. This could

be due to the

a. Receiver audio gain control setting

b. Transmitter using narrow band FM

c. Presence of a harmonic in the transmitter output

d. State of the sun spot cycle

8. To minimise the radiation of harmonics, which one of

the following filters might be fitted between the trans-

mitter output and antenna?

a. High pass

b. Key click

c. Braid breaker

d. Low pass

9. The drawing shows a block diagram of a simple Super-

hetrodyne receiver. What is the block marked X?

a. Detector

b. Audio amplifier

c. Tuned RF amplifier

d. Loudspeaker

10. The intermediate frequency of a superhet receiver is

the

a. The sum of the RF and the local oscillator frequencies

b. Difference between the RF and the local oscillator fre-

quencies

c. Sum or the difference between the AF and the local

oscillator frequencies

d. Sum or the difference between the RF and the local

oscillator frequencies

Tuned Detector Audio Headphones

General correspondence,

training and contest

entries

Bob Glasgow

7 Castle Terrace

Port Seton

East Lothian

EH32 0EE

Phone: 01875 811723

E-mail:

gm4uyz@cpsarc.com

HF Contests

Cambell Stevenson

mm0dxc@aol.com

VHF Contests

John MacLean

mm0ccc@cpsarc.com

Club Tables

Bob Purves

gm4ikt@cpsarc.com

Contest Reports

Robin Farrer

mm0vtv@cpsarc.com

Newsletter, website,

event calendar

John Innes

newsletter@cpsarc.com

6 March 2015 Club Night

11 March 2015 Activity Day

20 March 2015 Construction Night

28 March 2015 Newsletter Deadline

3 April 2015 Club Night

11 April 2015 GMDX Convention, Stirling

12 April 2015 Norbreck Rally, Blackpool

15 April 2015 Activity Day

18 April 2015 International Amateur Radio Day

25 April 2015 Newsletter Deadline

1 May 2015 Club Night

3 May 2015 Scottish Highland Radio Rally

8 May 2015 1st 144MHz DF Night

13 May 2015 Activity Day

30 May 2015 Newsletter Deadline

5 June 2015 Club Night

14 June 2015 PW QRP Contest (TBC)

Answers from March 2015 newsletter “Test Your Knowledge”.

1B, 2A, 3A, 4C, 5B, 6B, 7C, 8D, 9A, 10D

The clublog tables for 2015 are beginning to

take shape once more with Duncan MM0GZZ

racing off to an early lead with Gordon

MM0GPZ close behind.

Be sure to upload your logs and get in the list

and welcome to newcomer Stephanie

MM0SBO.

Rank Callsign 160 80 60 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 6 DXCC Slots Range

1 MM0GZZ 0 0 0 21 24 8 15 0 0 42 3 69 113 7 yrs

2 MM0GPZ 0 26 0 14 1 41 5 39 12 30 0 62 168 10 yrs

3 MM2N 0 20 0 12 0 38 0 38 0 26 0 53 134 3 yrs

4 MM0XAB 0 0 0 5 1 3 1 5 23 19 0 45 57 1 yrs

5 MM0TKE 0 0 2 13 0 5 6 5 2 8 0 31 41 1 yrs

6 MM0XXW 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 9 2 0 14 19 9 yrs

7 GM4UYZ 0 4 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8 10 35 yrs

8 M0RNR 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 0 0 6 7 16 yrs

9 MM0SBO 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 6 6 1 yrs

10 MM0WXT 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 yrs

11 GM4IKT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 11 yrs