Angel of the North Amateur Radio Club
Callsign: MX0GGP
The AGM will be held Monday 26th September 2022 at 19:30
Whitehall Road Methodist Church Hall,
Bensham, Gateshead, NE8 4LH
Email Address: anarc.club @ gmail.com
AGENDA
Just a reminder that the Club rally has been cancelled for this year. We have spoken to Amanda at Canny Components requesting her to express our apology to the traders. However, this year we again plan to run “Jamboree on the Air” (JOTA) from the House on the Hill for Tyneside Scouts with special call GB3TS on the 15th October 2022. Please drop David Stansfield (G0EVV) an E mail if you would like to be a part of the action. I need to make a commitment very soon so that the Scouts can get organised.
Continuing the Special Event theme, our repeater keepers are also running what are called “Special Special Events” (SSE) on parts of the Roman Wall. If you are interested in operating a special station please drop me an E Mail and I will forward it on the Austin M0MNE and Roy M0TKF. Better still, they can be contacted directly via their e mail addresses on QRZ.
QRZ.COM is a public database of amateur radio contacts.
We now have Internet banking on the club account. We have gone cashless. You can pay your subs electronically.
Previously we have had a small weekly fee plus an annual fee. A cash intensive process. Instead, we are moving to a single annual payment of £20.00. We can then get back to running in-person meetings.
You will be pleased to hear we are starting with a clean slate. Subs will start in March 2022.
We shall start face to face meetings at the shack at Whitehall Methodist Church Hall on TUESDAY nights at 7-00 pm, starting on Tuesday 5 April 2022, when everywhere will be warmer.
I will start to update the website in accordance with the new schedule.
We need to have AGM for election of Club Committee, approval of subs etc. and have to give 14 days’ notice and hold it on Zoom at 7-00 pm on Monday 11 April 2022. The secretary will send out Notice of AGM with Club Constitution with invitation to volunteers to become Committee member soon.
The pandemic isn’t over yet and the club is continuing to monitor the public health advice from the Director of Public Health in Gateshead.
In the meantime work has gone ahead to re-decorate the club room and here are some of the results.
Anarc is back in person.
Face to face club meetings will restart in the kitchen at the Church Hall on Monday 11 October at 7 pm.
Club Zoom meetings will move to Tuesdays as from 12 October at 7-00 pm.
Secretary
Nancy Bone G7UUR
The Angel of the North Amateur Radio Club restarted face-to-face meetings with a field day activity on Saturday 4 September. It was a wet morning at the Newcastle Scouts ‘The House on the Hill’ facility, but members braved the rain to put up a range of antennas to test on the HF bands. Paul M0PGX was able to demonstrate some satellite work using his home-made Yagi, while Roy M0TKF and the club’s youth team set up multiband vertical and inverted-V dipole antennas in the large field area.
Once the field station was set up and operating as MX0GGP, the very active bands due to RSGB FD and All Asia DX contests made for some exciting SSB operation on 80m – 10m. The opportunity to finally have a hands-on group activity allowed newly licensed operators to use the club IC-7300 equipment, with two members Piotr M7ISM And Carl 2E0VNG making their first HF contacts since obtaining their license, which was a highlight of the day.
The ANARC runs weekly meetings at the Newcastle club room, nets on the club Tynelink VHF/UHF repeaters, license training, and supports special events and local field activities including JOTA partnership with Newcastle Scouts. All are welcome to join club activities. Visit www.anarc.net for more info on meetings, net frequencies, and times.
As we are potentially ending the lockdown, Indian variant permitting, lots is still going on in the amateur radio world here in Gateshead.
GB3TW in its new cover to keep the dust and water off in the steeple. Thanks to Dan for getting it back on the air and Warren for helping.
GB3HA now working again. Remote shutdown fitted by Graeme. Farmer very happy with rent in shape of 3 bottles if Chardonnay.
The RSGB Examinations and Syllabus Review Group (ESRG) has just updated the two Full licence mock exam papers. In addition, there are now worked answer pdfs for these papers so you can see the correct answer for each question and the reasoning behind it. These mock papers are provided by the ESRG as a training aid and aren’t the exact questions included in a Full licence exam. Foundation and Intermediate mock exam papers will have worked answers added in due course. You can find all the mock exam papers on the Society’s website:
The club won’t be meeting on 23rd December 2019 and 30th December 2019.
When you have run a rally every year for a decade there are now plenty of pictures to choose from. I was caught snapping a shot back in 2014.
Come along Saturday 14th September 2019 for this years’ rally!
See you there. If you want to talk about the website I will be standing at the Bring and Buy.
It’s nice to promote the club at outside events and have a recognisable logo. The club now has had a new banner made. The logo has been added to our twitter feed too.
