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
Chairman