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Airfields On The Air

The Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society (RAFARS) organise the Airfields On the Air (AOTA) activity, encouraging clubs, societies and individual amateurs to run a station from a current or dis-used RAF Military Establishment which was used during the wars.

An AOTA station can be activated at any time of the year but activity is focused on the first and second weekends of April.

In support of this event the Kings Lynn Amateur Radio Club will be activating a special event station from the former RAF West Raynham near Fakenham on Sat 4th April using the callsign GB0WRA.
The location postcode is NR21 7PL and what3words is motel.napped.fluctuate

The station will be located on the grass area outside the veterans center. Please come along and have a chat with us and maybe learn a little about the rich history of the airfield.

Further details of the AOTA scheme can be found on the RAFARS website.

 

LoRa APRS

LoRa APRS is not the same beast as traditional VHF APRS as it works on UHF, It utilises a very clever method of modulation allowing rather long range usage from only 100mW.
Trackers can be made from quite inexpensive tracker modules from Ebay or AliExpress that can “easily” be reprogrammed for our purpose.
The following link takes you to a technical talk by James (G5JCC) from the Halifax And District Amateur Radio Society that explains things quite well.

Mike (M0XXM) is planning to give a short presentation to us at a future date.

 

Teams/Skype chat

KLARC
17:30 – 18:30 (GMT)
Occurs every Sunday and Tuesday starting 29/04

 
 
 
 

Mutterings from the management

What a brilliant August! 
 
The rally day was bright and glorious, if a little cold, and we had the usual ‘There’s nobody here!” feeling, but by opening time everyone had turned up, the inside of the hall was full, and the outside had Jack (2E0HSP) deciding if we needed to put an extension on!
It was lovely to see familiar faces, and the rain did as it was told and held off until we finished.
 
Two weeks later, it was Lighthouses On The Air, and the radio club set up on Friday, and packed up on Sunday.  Some years are awful, and some years are great, and this was one of the best with 147 contacts over the weekend.  There was much excitment when not one, but 2 VK stations were worked, and another on the West Coast of America.  Most of the contacts were in Europe, but 37 of those were lighthouses, which was the most we have ever found. (Yes Ian G4JQT, there were 6 in Morse. Well done.) 
 
As always, thanks to all that helped with the set up and take down of both events, and to all who visited, (even if they were only showing off their new car!  There was a lot of bacon baps, sausage baps and tea consumed, as well as some excellent fish and chips on Friday night at the Lighthouse.
 
Keep the first and third weekends in August free for next year, and come and join us.
 
We are here on a Thursday night, the kettle is always on and new members are always welcome.
 
73’s
 
Sarah (2E0NRX)

Chairman

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