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We’ll meet online but this week we’ll use Jitsi which has proved to be fine for both Gozo Amateur Radio Society and London Hackspace Radio Club. As usual a link will be posted nearer the time … and here it is: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/17299bb461db869adcca554142f0434601e03e9ed5ee379910cd7daf8f4d64ef

Please put your thinking caps on and suggest topics that either you’d be prepared to talk about for as little as ten minutes or you think someone else has done and you’d like to hear them speak about. Even a ten minute talk with a couple of slides or pictures or screenshots will give us half an hour of material once there’s some Q+A and people adding their own experience. We’d like to have material lined up so we can be confident when inviting new people to the meetings that there’ll be something of interest.

The evening was enjoyable despite a low turnout and there was general agreement that alternate physical and online meetings is the way forward for the foreseeable future.

The main topic of conversation was rechargeable batteries, but less in the context of amateur radio but that of Godfrey’s new ‘wheels’. Aerials for flats and small gardens were also discussed.

Despite the beer prices we’re going to meet again this Wednesday at the Pear Tree pub at 14 Margravine Road, W6 8HJ from about 19:00 and also have a Zoom meeting running so anyone who can’t get there in person but is otherwise free can join us.

If you have any new shiny toys by all means bring them, and if you have any suggestions for other venues we’ll be happy to discuss them.

The pattern of meetings was discussed and it was felt that the pub meeting had been very enjoyable but that we didn’t need two online meetings as well, so it was proposed to meet online on the second Friday of the month and at a pub (or other suitable venue) the second Wednesday after that.

It was agreed to cancel the Zoom subscription if it’s only going to be used in anger for one or possibly two meetings a month when free alternatives like Teams and Jitsi are available.

We’re also going to try to have more organised topics of conversation, possibly with a member giving a short presentation, but not at this stage visiting speakers until we’re confident we’d have enough people present to justify it.

It’s back to the virtual world this Friday but we can pick a date for the next Pear Tree evening and perhaps discuss how Zoom meetings would fit around those in the absence of a club venue.

If you’ve got 10m FM capability, fire it up from about 19:30 on 29.600MHz and we’ll see who can reach whom.

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Zoom details:

Topic:  HARS online club meeting Fri 13th August 2021

Time: Aug 13, 2021 20:00 London

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82703108183?pwd=ZzhIWmNpdjEwRkRrQmM0eEVPNzRnUT09

Meeting ID: 827 0310 8183

Passcode: 570160

Although not many members attended there was an old friend who hadn’t been able to join via Zoom, and the weather was kind to us. There was plenty of space both inside and out so we’ll meet at this venue at least once more before the summer is over. Zoom meetings will resume next Friday.

David Zoomed in from IE again and showed off his new aerial which worked well once he’s remedied a number of manufacturing errors and omissions.

As agreed last week we’re going to hold the first physical meeting this Wednesday at the Pear Tree pub at 14 Margravine Road, W6 8HJ from about 19:00 and also have a Zoom meeting running so anyone who can’t get there in person but is otherwise free can join us.

Parking in Margravine Road is not bad by Fulham standards. The nearest Tube station is Barons Court and the pub is about a 10-minute walk from the Tube. Turn right on leaving the station and then immediately right into Margravine Gardens. Walk or drive down to the No Entry sign and turn left and then follow the road round to the right to the mini roundabout at the end of Margravine Road and turn left. The walk from the mini roundabout to the pub, which is a large building on the left, is about as long as the walk from the station to the mini-roundabout.

From Hammersmith station the route is down Fulham Palace Road to its junction with St Dunstans Road, turn left, and at the mini roundabout turn right into Margravine Road and then straight on to the pub.

Topics of conversation will undoubtedly include each others haircuts and maybe some radio.

After much previous discussion about pubs around Brook Green, Godfrey came up with The Pear Tree in Barons Court, about ten minutes from Barons Court and Hammersmith underground stations so we’re going to try that. And if we can, a Zoom feed for those who can’t make it in person.

There was further discussion about the EMF regulations and the unlikelihood of Ofcom ever actually paying a visit unless concerns had already been raised..

The only thing on the agenda so far is to arrange a physical meeting for which we need to fix a time and a place so have your diaries ready and if you can think of any suitable venues (quiet, plenty of outside space and ideally also covered or inside space should the weather dictate) in the area bounded by Hammersmith, Olympia and Shepherd’s Bush please propose them.

A physical meeting will be held in a pub early in August, date and venue to be confirmed at the next meeting

The outcome of the asset audit was that apart from the TS-2000 at Nigel’s, most of the club’s equipment including the card reader, laptop and TS-2000 transport case are in Selim’s parents’ garage.

There was much discussion about the new EMF regulations, some shortcomings with the RSGB spreadsheet were highlighted but it was felt that despite the club’s urban membership it was unlikely that anyone would be affected by them as they stand.