Congratulations to HARC

Tony Wadsworth , G3NPF has recently posted to Horsham Club (HARC) membership that the Club have again been awarded the David Hill (G4IQM) Annual Trophy for the 3rd time for being the leading group in the 2010 Top Band Club Calls Contest run in November earlier this year. This is a hotly contested event and I CARC wishes to warmly congratulate HARC for achieving their consistent success in this event. This is all the more poignant for CARC as David was a past Chairman of CARC and of the RSGB HF Contest Committee.

73, Derek G3GRO

Christmas Greetings

To All Crawley Club Members and Their Families
We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011

Derek Atter, G3GRO, Hon President CARC

Graffiti

Spotted by Andy G4JNT near a local marine college:

http://picasaweb.google.com/andy.g4jnt/CountryParkRiverHamble#5553550081843582498

Gears

Not amateur radio, but none the less likely to be of interest.

First some square gears:

http://www.flixxy.com/gears.htm

and now to really freak you out some organic gears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdlSAN1yks

Thanks to Adrian G3VJM for pointing these out.

- Stewart

The CARC Buildathon Coaxial Loop - Update

I was pleased to receive the following note recently from Ted G4TTY

“Peter

Over our snow enforced holiday, I have been catching up with QSL cards.

The following are the countries that I contacted using that Loop we all made at the Club. I had it fixed to the rafters in the loft.

TED G4TTY

July 08 to October 08, 7MHz”

Call	Watts
EI7CC	30
EA1BRB	30
F5HPY	50
SP6EBK	50
PA0RTW	45
PA1MAK	45
F5OZC	50
M3MUB	5
DP7X	50
F5TO	25
F51AE	40
IN3/1K1 ZJB	10
DL5RDT	5
HB9ANE	30
DL50DRAX	30
DK2NV	25
PA1MAX	4
DK3WM/P	10
DL9TX/QRP	10
DL6LSW	30
HB9ANE	30
LA5UJ	50
DJ2CV	50
DF5VR	50
DA0T	25

Many thanks for your interesting note, Ted. It’s always good to get feedback on the usefulness of this very simple, almost zero cost antenna. For those who may have missed the original CARC Buildathon articles, here are the links.

http://carconline.blogspot.com/2009/01/tuneable-magnetic-loop-antenna-for-7mhz.html

http://carconline.blogspot.com/2009/01/coaxial-cable-40m-tunable-magnetic-loop.html

http://carconline.blogspot.com/2008/12/tuning-knob-control-for-carc-buildathon.html

73

Peter G4FYY

Snow Club Meeting tonight

I have spoken to a few other committee member and in view of the weather, the club meeting tonight will be cancelled.

Instead of meeting in person a group of us propose to gather on GB3WS at 8pm for a short net.

We will make a decision about the fish and chip supper tomorrow morning.

Stewart/G3YSX