Newsletter (Catswhisker) Index of Contents from November 2002
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(Updated
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Newsletter (Catswhisker) Index of Contents from November 2002
Please note that the information given here is not intended to be a complete list of the contents of Catswhisker.
November 2002 Longleat Rally is over - Well Shiver my Timbers by G0EVW - Intermediate and Foundation News by M5MKW - Fishing in Murky Waters Part 2 - IMD Website moved - Old Scientific and Radio equipment wanted by G0VHS - RNARS Nets - WAE Phone Contest 2002 Results - download
December 2002 Final Mobile Rally at Longleat to take place in 2003 - A world without radio by M0GAB - Fixing up the new aerial by Heath Robinson - Christmas Message from G4KUU - RAFARS Nets - DXpedition to the Isle of Man by M5RIC - download.
January 2003 Congratulations; Terry, G0VHS and Anna, 2E1VHS get married - Letter from Jim, G7JIM standing down as QSL Manager for GB0MBS - Royal Signals ARS Nets and Frequencies - Restoration of SDRS pump up mast - M2Z ARRL 10M Contest - How to use EchoLink and M1PIK-L - download
February 2003 Longleat Rally cancelled again - Tony Bendall, G3YEF has a fall - Januarys (Meteor) Shower Party - Weymouth (Vintage) Wireless Manufacurers by John, M0BQO - Blackmore Vale 'Valve Day' - Rob Mannion of PW visits SDRS - download
March 2003 Magnetic Loops by Robert, G0RYL - Affiliated Clubs and Societies Contest by Richard, M5RIC - RSGB has a new Manager for Region 11 - download
April 2003 Memorial Trophy in memory of Bill Dean, G0NRQ and Pat Cox, G1XJH - Reform of Amateur Prefixes by Paul GM6MEN and response from our Vice President - AGM Notice - download
May 2003 AGM 2003 - New Chairman, Mark, M5MKW - Officers and Committee for 2003 in pictures - Annual Awards - Blackmore Vale's 'Valve Day' report - Magnetic Loops, Part 2 - Richard, M5RIC wins the World Wide WPX Contest using MW2Z - Intermediate and Foundation Licence News - Graham, M0GAB and Sue, 2E1EWP married 31/03/03 - download
June 2003 Change of meeting night for SDRS - Treasurers Report for 2003 - Poem, 'The Radar Man' - Building a Radio Receiver by Anna Simons, 2E1VHS - IMD 2003 Report and pictures by Graham, 2E1GOQ/M3GOQ - More Foundation Course success - The Power of Words by John, M0BQO - Jon, G2FHF flies a kite and injures his back! - download
July 2003 'Does Your Radio Leak?' a report on Ken Watkins talk - The National Communications Fair report by John, M0BQO - Museums on the Air Weekend report by Jon, G2FHF - Design and Pennant or Flag for SDRS competition - Updated Members List for 2003/04 - Setting up a tri-band beam by Mark, M5MKW - More on the 'Power of Words' - download
August 2003 Change of meeting night update - M2Z wins WAEDC contest - Trailer Mast News - IARU HF contest report - SDRS now own a Gazebo! - Ladies Page reports Jim, G7JIM is 60 and Neville, M5NEV and XYL Liz celebrate 33 years - Silent Key, George M5AMC - download
September 2003 What do they want, blood? - Hamfest report and pictures - Anna, 2E1VHS wins the SDRS Pennant competition - Queen Victoria was 'Not amused' at the Nothe Fort! - download
October 2003 Catswhisker Editor wants to retire! - 'Pics', a report on last months talk about Programmable Integrated Circuits given by Paul, G0ODP - Lighthouse Weekend report and pictures by Mark, M5MKW - Using a Digital Camera to help service Radio equipment by John, M0BQO - download
November 2003 Catswhisker wins PW award - Report of lecture by Paul, G4KHU on 'Submarine Communications' - M5NEV's Radio Shack News, SDRS pump up mast and trailer now stored under cover - Report of 'Quiz Night' at Poole - The 'Ladies' are back! - 'Signor Marconi's Magic Box', book review by John, M0BQO - SDRG AGM report - download
December 2003 'Ladies Gossip' by Carol, 2E1RBH - Mobile Amateur Radio and the new Mobile Phone Laws - Bumper Year in store for SDRS - EU SSB Sprint Contest Report by Richard, M5RIC - 'Bedford Bob', M3DPQ writes - Radio Shack News from Neville, M5NEV - Christmas Word Search, Thoughts and Greetings! - download
January 2004 New Year Message from our Chairman, Mark, M5MKW - Report on the SDRS Christmas Social - The year 2003 in Pictures - Seasons Greetings and Licensing News from Phil, G0KKL - download
February 2004 EchoLink available again locally thanks to Mark, M5MKW - Report on last Meeting, 'Dorset Raynet' - Don, G8BFZ Silent Key - RAE Exam Results, five new callsigns - Richard, M5RIC to take part in UK Malawi DXpedition - Life Before SDRS was SDRC, 1924 - Intermediate Radio Course - download
March 2004 SDRS is looking for a new Treasurer - Graham M0GAB retires from his RSGB posts - Child Protection guidelines proposed - Vintage Wireless reports from the Southern Times for 1927 - More on the Malawi DXpedition - Yaesu FT817 review by John, G2FHF - UOSAT Twenty Years in Space, a special QSL card - Intermediate Radio Course - download
April 2004 Catswhisker Editor, Neville M5NEV retires - Report on Shaftesbury Valve Day 2004 - Phil Bridges, M0PKB receives the PW Award - EchoLink, M5MKW-L #160310 working well - UK Malawi DXpedition 2004 update - SDRS Accounts 2003/4 - 50 years on; Worlds first DX QSO using transistors - John, M0BQO wins constructors cup with his home made 'Wobbulator' (no it's not an April Fool joke!) - Silent Key; Charlie, G4PTU - download
May 2004 New Editors Natter - A message from the new Chairman - Retiring Treasurers Report - 'Valve Day' pictures - Yeovil QRP Convention report - GB6OD 60th commemoration of D-Day News - The Great Escape 60 years on by Meg Clothier - New SDRS contest Watts Per Mile Award - download
June 2004 APRS /PSK31; report on May SDRS lecture - D-Day veterans remembered - Reports on IMD 2004 - More on the Malawi Expedition; thanks for SDRS contribution - Forthcoming event; GB6OD at the Nothe Fort - download
July 2004 Mills Weekend report - Use the right Phonetics! - AROS lecture report - Expedition to Costa Rica by Rob Mott, G0ECX - download
August 2004 More on GB6OD including a QSL for a QSO with a Boeing 747! - Forthcoming Special Event Stations; GB0CC (Chickerell Carnival) and GB0PBL (Portland Breakwater Light) announced - Successful Intermediate Candidates announced - Malawi Expedition; report by Richard, M5RIC - Yeovil ARC demonstrate WW2 radio equipment - Mike, G0NEV (not open all hours) retires - download
September 2004 GB0CC, Report on Chickerell Carnival Special Event Station - GB0PBL at the Nothe Fort, report by Mark, M5MKW - Early Amateur Radio in the Weymouth Area by Rob, G3MYM - Oceanic Air Band by Graham, M0GAB - SDRS Membership List - download
October 2004 Astronaut, Mike Fincke, KE5AIT works all continents from the ISS - More pictures from the 2004 Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend - An invitation to join a Dorset Amateur Radio Group using Yahoo, from Paul, M0EYT - Amateur Digital Voice by Trevor, M5AKA - Special QSO's by Rob, G3MYM - An aerial for 3.5, 7 and 14 MHz by Mark, M5MKW - HF Marine Bands by Graham, M0GAB - Carol, 2E1RBH elected Chairman of BALARA - download
November 2004 Wireless Network in Weymouth - BYLARA news - SDRS Chairman walks on a bed of hot coals! - HF Broadcast Bands by Graham, M0GAB - Robert, G0RYL and Carol, 2E1RBH visit Poldhu - Dorchester Beam Station, a report on the October talk by Paul Hawkins, G4KHU - Amateur Radio History, G2OD works A3BQ in Australia in 1924, by Rob, G3MYM - 40M band extended in the UK - download
December 2004 QSL Cards by
Rob, G3MYM - Vintage Wireless, 'The Weymouth Three' of 1924 by John, M0BQO
- APRS and EchoLink, use it or lose it by Graham, M0GAB - More about G2OD
- New Book available, 'Marconi's Beam Wireless Station' at Dorchester by
Paul Hawkins, G4KHU - HF Data - 'what is all the noise about' by Graham,
M0GAB - The Nothe Fort says thank you for SDRS donation -
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Extra - Review of 2004 in pictures -
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January 2005 First woman amateur radio operator? - More on the world of HF past and present by Graham, M0GAB - Silent Key, Jack Wiseley, KA4NCE - Skittles/Buffet report and pictures - Letter regarding future loss of Chickerell Church Hall as SDRS meeting place - Proposal that SDRS takes part in National Science Week - download
February 2005 HF Radio Noise by Rob, G3MYM - Report on Barry, G4ACK's talk about the RSGB - More pictures of the Buffet/Skitlles event - National Science Week - Problem Solving and Ohms Law by John, M0BQO - EchoLink Node, M5MKW-L now requires CTCSS - download February extra 2004 in pictures download
March 2005 A bumper bundle this month with no less than four supplements! - Signals into Outer Space by Graham, M0GAB - The Half Wave Dipole and Earth by Rob, G3MYM - Why are we called 'HAMS'? by G6ZDE - A simple Balun for your HF Station by Jan, G0HBL - Terry and Anna have a baby girl called Emily - Catswhisker - download OFCOM meeting in pictures - download Training Shack in pictures - download News Extra - download and another late extra - GB0MPB information - download
April 2005 GB3SD and GB3SD QRT! - Marconi Wireless Telegraphy at Portland Bill by Rob, G0RYL - The Marconi Station at the Bill by Geoff, G0EVW - Talking about Amateur Radio by Rob, G3MYM - Signals into Outer Space by Graham, M0GAB - From a 1928 magazine - Speeling mistooks othurs have mayde! - Restoring Old Radios, a report on the lecture given by John, M0BQO at the March meeting - The Systeme International by John, M0BQO - OFCOM and the end of Amateur Radio as we know it! - The Journeaux Historic Wireless Collection - More about spelling by Phil, G0KKL - download
May 2005 Carol reports on IMD 2005 (GB0MPB and GB0MBS) - A message from our new Chairman, Graham, 2E1GOQ - The Future of Amateur Radio Licensing in the UK - M0PKB E-QSO Internet Link back on the air - Tony Bendall, G3YEF is Silent Key - download
June 2005 Museums on the Air event details - More on the Future of Amateur Radio Licensing in the UK - New Venue for SDRS meetings - 'The Crystal Diode Centenary' by Rob, G3MYM - 200th anniversary of Trafalgar Day events planned - Foundation News from Mark, M5MKW - Lighthouse/Lightship event details - download
July 2005 More on the OFCOM 'consultation' with extensive documentation - Information about the local Internet Gateways and how to use EchoLink and eQSO - BYLARA News and Nets - BBC Radio Four saves swans from the foxes at Abbotosbury Swannery by John, M0BQO - download
September 2005 Please note; there was no August Catswhisker this year - 2005/6 Members List - SDRS 'DX Trophy' Rules clarified - FRARS Hamfest report and pictures - Should it be 73 or 73's? - Geoff, G0EVW and XYL Mary celebrate 40 years! - Memories of Portland Breakwater Light by an ex Keeper - New 2M Repeater, GB3DR on air - Training Centre News - Museums on the Air 2005 report - BYLARA News - download
October 2005 Report and pictures on the September meeting, 'Journeax Historic Wireless Collection' - CW Forever - History of JARL - SDRG Autumn Newsletter - 73, 88 and The Wonder of Morse - download
November 2005 What is a Wireless Enthusiast? - Did Marconi actually succeed in crossing the Atlantic with Wireless in 1901? - Barry Scarisbrick, G4ACK Silent Key - Morse Code for Radio Amateurs - download
December 2005 Memory Lane by Alan, M0MZX - The Battle of Trafalgar - More Morse! - BYLARA News - Christmas Buffet/Reindeer Races! - download
January 2006 Report and pictures of the 'Reindeer Races' Christmas Night - 'Blast from the Past' and pictures of interest from members - Morse Code for Radio Amateurs & Problems with RCD Circuit Protectors - Final preparations for taking your RAE - Etching Circuit Boards - Seasons Greetings from far & wide - download
February 2006 Contributions wanted for Catswhisker! - Information on Picodopp and Doppler Direction Finding from Martin, G6GDT - More Morse Code! - New magazine, 'Monitoring Monthly' - download
March 2006 Replacement for 90V volt HT battery - Paddle Keys - Standard C500 Review - Yet more Morse Code! - Warning about Credit Card Fraud - SDRS Web Site News - Erecting PO Telephone Open Wires - download
April 2006 Converting the Pye A200 for 6M - Fixed Penalty Fines for Amateur Radio offences - Repeater Group News - The DARC 2006 World Football Championship Award - Freak Wave kills Peter Homer, G0KNU/MM - Last Part of 'Morse Code for Radio Amateurs' - Four SDRS members learn the Morse Code in less than an hour! - download
May 2006 New SDRS Committee, President and Vice President - IMD 2006 Report - Yeovil QRP Rally 2006 Report - SDRS Members list - G4ZPY Morse Paddle Keys by George Dobbs, G3RJV - Marconi Exhibit opens at Oxford - download
June 2006 Report on IMD by Arthur, M0VAW using just 3 watts to a loop! - Richard Brett-Knowles talk about The British North Greenland Expedition 1952-1954, a report on May's SDRS meeting - 'Accidental Packet 'and the 'Early Bird' by Charlie, 2E1LEC - The Portland Internet Gateway, MB7IOP changes frequency to 145.2125 MHz - Lots of pictures at the new SDRS web site www.sdrs.zoomshare.com - download
July 2006 SDRS Secretary and Newsletter editor announces her retirement - The Radio History of Yeovil - YARC 60th Anniversary Operations Day report - 2006 Museums on the Air pictures - A Wobbulator - South Dorset Wireless Industry Update - First impressions of the new UK Amateur Radio Licence, download
October 2006 Please note; there was no August or September Catswhisker this year - Foundation Licence to have Satellite access plus other information about the new 'Lifetime Licence' - South Dorset Wireless Industry update - download
November 2006 First Female Private Space Explorer & Space Ambassador Active on 145.800 MHz - James Van Allen, the US physicist who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the Earth, has died - Bournemouth Hosts WRC-2007 Preparatory Meeting - Special Event; March 1907 Portland to Gibraltar Radio Contact - download
December 2006 Lost Handy, Yaesu FT60 - Rob, G3MYM describes the equipment used for the 1907 Portland to Gibraltar Wireless contact and the 0-V-1 Receiver - History of the Phonetic Alphabet - 60 years not out for Yeovil ARC - download
January 2007 No Catswhisker this month but there was a news update - download
February 2007 Members are asked
to respond about the future of Catswhisker and SDRS meetings - History of
Marconi Wireless Station at Chatham on Cape Cod - WW2 'Utility' Wireless
Sets and American imports -
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Extra booklet about the Portland Bill to Gibraltar wireless contact
in 1907 -
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March 2007 - SDRS news - download
April 2007 - AGM notice - Report on GB1HP (GB 1 Hundred Portland Gibraltar) SPECIAL EVENT STATION to commemorate the wireless Contact between Portland Bill and Gibraltar in March 1907 download
May 2007 - Treasurers Report 2007 - AGM 2007 Report - New booklet in production about the 100th anniversary of the Portland to Gibraltar event download
June 2007 - IMD 2007 Report - A Morse Key for home constructors - Blackmore Vale ARC 'Mills on the Air 2007' report - download
July 2007 - Geoff Watts Little Secret - Keep Morse Alive - Gerry Milward, M1IPZ Silent Key - 181st RAMC Wetsern Front Battle Group - Report on last months meeting - Information about the R130 and it's ATU - download
August 2007 - SDRS members e-mail accounts update - BBQ and Table Top Sale to be held in August - Report on IMW 2007 - Wartime Military Communications - download
September 2007 - GB2MBS (Marconi Beam Station) A report on the Special Event Station held on the 70th anniversary of Marconi's death - A report on a recent visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford by John, M0BQO - How much does it cost to run the SDRS? - download
November 2007 - Carol, 2E1RBH retires as SDRS Catswhisker editor and Secretary - download
December 2007 - The very last Catswhisker produced by Carol! - download
December 2007 - The first of a alternative format (hopefully temporary) newsletter! A letter from the Chairman - RSGB is moving its HQ - download
January 2008 - Reverend Alan Rogers of 'Station X' fame, Obituary - 3B7C DXpedition, stolen equipment - download
February 2008 - Beachcomber's Story, a new feature starting next month - DorSAR, a report on last months meeting about Dorset Search and Rescue download
March 2008 - AGM Notice - Part One of Beachcomber's Story - Seb's Odyssey - download
April 2008 - AGM Notice including Treasurer's Report and Agenda - Beachcombers Story, Part Two - Help wanted for research into WW2 'Y' stations - News from the RSGB, 70cm petition is disinformation! - Report on March meeting, digi modes and vintage - download
May 2008 - Messages from the President and Treasurer - AGM has to be held over! - IMD 2008 Brief Report - Beachcombers Story, Part Three - Catswhisker Distribution Notice - download
June 2008 - Still no AGM - Important notice about Catswhisker Distribution - Graham, M0GAB, Silent Key - Beachcombers Story, Part Four - Geoff, G0EVW 50 Years with RSGB - download
July 2008 - AGM business finally completed - International Museums Weekend 2008 report - SOS is 100 years old - Beachcombers Story, Part Five - download
August 2008 - Catswhisker Distribution Update - Foundation and Intermediate Exam changes - New Digital Repeater for Dorset - Beachcombers Story, Part Six - download
September 2008 - International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2008 report and pictures - Beachcombers Story, Part Seven - Catswhisker Editor has a new phone number - download
October 2008 - Production and deadline information for Catswhisker - Easy Pal Digital SSTV by Graham, 2E1GOQ - Beachcombers Story, Part Eight - download
November 2008 - Wanted, material for Catswhisker - Know your fellow members (pictures) - Is it time for a change? stop messing about with our clocks! by Custos - AGM News from the SDRG - Beachcombers Story, Part Nine - download
December 2008 - The End of Maritime MF Working - Know you fellow members (pictures) and congratulations to Mike, G3RZG and Ron, G3EGV - Of Babies, Bathwater and Morse Code by Custos - Beachcombers Story, Final episode - download
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