Month: March 2022

A quiet meeting again but we reflected that the same period in previous years had similarly low attendance and put this down to the time of year. We’re stumped for a venue for the Pubs and Clubs on the Air weekend so if you have any ideas please shout. Also if you have any ideas for short presentations (like propagation tools for instance)

We need someone to volunteer to submit our meeting details to RadCom and Radio User as it’s free publicity. This should only take perhaps twenty minutes a month but could grow to become useful in other ways.

Hopefully from next month we’ll be able to sit outside but it’s still dark and chilly. Bring your toys.

Much discussion of echolink type repeaters and another in Poland that Gregor is involved with. Feeders and where you go from LMR400 came up, JJ showed some from a cell tower which has a hollow centre and we discussed whether feeder could be oval or whether that was more likely to be a wideband waveguide.

I shall try to find a way to make the meeting chats available as there are lots of useful links, although people would need to annotate them as to what they’re about.

Main topic to discuss is whether and when to have another online on a different day of the week for those who can’t make Fridays.

Here’s the link – please make sure you’re showing video and a recognisable name or callsign so we know you’re not a bot.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDJjYzUyODItOTc3Ny00OTZiLTllNTgtNWI3MjY3YzBlODVk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2294025a27-2fa8-411c-ad13-5f8ef10ef21e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223e518b26-255c-42e5-abff-0e35e8b1b428%22%7d

Please remember to turn the volume of any radios right down or off completely to avoid confusing the noise reduction in your online meeting client.