Meetings Can Resume
Well, it’s been a long time coming but the announcement below confirms that the work on the upstairs room at the Novers Park Community Association is complete (well very nearly) and the room is once again available for use.
On 9 January 2025 a few of us who were present at the Novers Park Community Association for our formal monthly meeting checked the upstairs room and found it to be complete with the exception of:
- The aforementioned Ladies toilets, and
- Carpet in the lower of the two “rooms”
Now that our room is once again available we can resume a formal monthly meeting. The following calendar is proposed:
- February: 06/02/2025
- March: 13/03/2025 (Note this is the second Thursday)
- April: 03/04/2025
- May: 01/05/2025
- June: 05/06/2025
- July: 03/07/2025
- August: 07/08/2025
- September: 04/09/2025
- October: 23/10/2025 (Note this is the fourth Thursday and will be our AGM)
- November: 06/11/2025
- December: 04/12/2025
I would like to welcome as many members as possible in person to the new Club room on Thursday 6 February 2025. We have to make some plans for the content of the formal monthly meetings as well as things like planning an antenna working party. People will need to be prepared to take ownership of some tasks. There will be no Zoom for the February meeting, we still have a few wrinkles to iron out in that regard.
Remember: We also have a number of Special Events and Contests planned for 2025 which will have briefing or planning sessions ahead of them held as part of the formal monthly meeting, as follows:
- April 2025 – Airfields on the Air
- Organisers: https://www.rafars.org/rafaota/
- Registration: https://www.qsl.net/g4dqp/activations.html
- Dates: First Weekend in April – 5/6 April 2025
- Location: Middlezoy Aerodrome What 3 Words Location
- Briefing: Either March 2025 or April 2025
- Notes: The registration organiser Vince Lewis G4DQP is, sadly, silent key. Our Special Events team (Greg 2W1BUF and Mark M0SKV) will contact RAFARS to determine new registration details
- May 2025 – Mills on the Air
- Organisers: https://www.spab.org.uk/mills/NMW
- Registration: TBA
- Dates: SPAB National Mills Weekend – 10/11 May 2025
- Location: Saltford Brassmill What 3 Words Location
- Briefing: May 2025
- Notes: Denby Dale ARC, who organise Mills on the Air, are not currently providing any registration details on their website (https://www.ddarc.uk/). Although the Mills Radio weekend usually coincides with SPAB’s National Mills Weekend (https://www.spab.org.uk/mills/NMW) there have been instances in the past when Denby Dale have opted for a weekend before or after the main National Mills Weekend. Our Special Events Team (Greg 2W1BUF and Mark M0SKV) will confirm dates and registration details
- July 2025 – VHF Field Day
- Organisers and Specific Rules: https://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/2025/VHFNFD.shtml
- General Rules: https://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/25rules/General.shtml
- Dates: First weekend in July – 5/6 July 2025
- Location: A field on Dundry Hill What 3 Words Location
- Briefing and Equipment Check: June 2025
- Notes: We should use the June formal meeting (05/06/2025) to check and test the equipment (including the equipment to be loaned by Club members). Any repairs can be implemented in the period between the June 2025 formal meeting and the July 2025 formal meeting (03/07/2025) when equipment assembly ready for transport will take place
- August 2025 – International Lighthouses and Lightships on the Air
- Organisers and Registration: https://illw.net/
- Dates: Third weekend in August – 16/17 August 2025
- Location: The ‘John Sebastian’, Bathurst Basin, Bristol What 3 Words Location
- Briefing: August 2025
- Notes: Our Special Events team (Greg 2W1BUF and Mark M0SKV) will make early contact with our hosts, the Cabot Cruising Club,to ensure access is possible this year
- September 2025 – Railways on the Air
- Organisers and Registration: https://rota.barac.org.uk/
- Dates: Weekend closest to 27 September – 27/28 September 2025
- Location: Somerset and Dorset Railway Heritage Trust, Midsomer Norton What 3 Words Location
- Briefing: September 2025
Again, we’d like to see a good turn out at these events, so put these dates in your diary to ensure you have some availability over the operational weekends.
