RSSLNEWS
November 2001
NOTICE OF MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING NOVEMBER 28TH 2001
Please be informed that the monthly General Meeting for November 2001 will be held on 28th November 2001 at THE Ceylon Tourist Board Committee room, Galle road, Colpetty at 0530 PM.
MONTHLY MEETINGS
Please note that unless otherwise notified, monthly General Meetings will be held at The Ceylon Tourist Board Committee room, Galle road, Colpetty at 0530 PM on the last Wednesday of the month at 0530.pm. Please also monitor the RSSL net regularly on 145.625 MHz at 0900 p.m. for RSSL announcements
Agenda
Hony. Secretary.
The Radio Society of Sri Lanka.
RSSL SHACK-At Ceylon Tourist Board H.Q
The Council of the RSSL wishes to thank all members who attended the October meeting which was the first meeting at the Tourist Board complex in Colpetty. The show of support was tremendous and the house even approved Rs. 30,000 towards the purchase of equipment for the shack. However, that was not necessary through the outstanding generosity of RSSL friend Hans Neddermann DL6IQ/4S7IQG who gifted an entire station to the RSSL shack comprising of an Icom Transceiver, automatic antenna tuner and power supply. The Council wishes to thank Hans DL6IQ for this wonderful gift on behalf of the entire membership, and for being a friend of the RSSL
4S7DF, RF and others have already set up the station. Unfortunately the RSSL beam antenna has hit a snag because the custodian was unable to locate the boom! The moment the boom is located and tested, Dhammika and Co. assure the membership that the antenna will go up. A temporary wire antenna is in place at the moment. Members can inspect and operate the station at the forthcoming RSSL monthly meeting. The official inauguration of the station will also be discussed at the November General meeting. It is also proposed to open the station to the membership on nominated days on a trial basis. The council hopes the new shack will promote more fellowship including decamping to Crescat Food-court after operating the station. The RSSL will expolore other places as well. The central location of the shack should make it very convenient for members to get-together.
HELP NEEDED- Now that the RSSL has its shack it is necessary to have a force of volunteers who will assist in projects to generate more awareness of Amateur activities and how it could benefit the community. The level of activity will be proportionate to the level of acceptance both officially and by the community in general. Please contact 4S7DF or the Sec. 4S7PR or any one of the Council members who will be only too pleased to have your assistance. The appeal goes out to all hams and associates alike. After all the Associate members of today are the hams of tomorrow.
POTENTIAL HAMS: It is with great anticipation that we like to inform the membership that nearly 50 candidates presented themselves for the Morse (CW) practical test which was conducted a few weeks back. This is a tremendous show of interest and augurs very well for the future of Amateur Radio in Sri Lanka.
Visit to the TRCSL.
RSSL team comprising of 4S7DF, 4S7VG and 4S7GF had a meeting with the TRC and the following matters were discussed.
Report and recommendation from RSSL. Romesh
advised a discussion in this regard with TRCSL.
MESSAGEFROM THE SECRETARY- AGM
Pls inform the members that the AGM is to be held at the Royal Oceanic Hotel, Negombo at 1030 a.m.
At the Monthly GM on Nov details will be disclosed. The charges for the luncheon is at cost of Rs. 500.00
courtesy 4S7RF. The Hotel facilities are provided to members and family if accompanied. There is a pool and beach front, and it would be an interesting family outing and also a good opportunity for fellowship. After the luncheon and recreation the return trip could be scheduled as required. The cost of transport will be borne by the RSSL. Bookings in advance is advisable as the coach has limited seating facility. All members are encouraged to participate at such outing as it will help members to get introduced to each other and make links to develop their skills.
73- Thomas Adrian 4S7PR
THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARCONI'S HISTORIC
TRANS-ATLANTIC RADIO TRANSMISSION
December 11 - 16, 2001
The Marconi Radio Club, W1AA and The Falmouth Amateur Radio Association Amateur Radio operators are making plans to celebrate a Marconi world historical event. December 12, 2001 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Trans-Atlantic radio transmission by Guglielmo Marconi. That signal was a series of " S S S " transmitted on CW across the Atlantic from Poldhu, Cornwall England to St John's, Newfoundland.
The Marconi Radio Club will be using the call sign W1AA/CC and will be operating from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A. the location of Marconi's 1903 Trans-Atlantic radio station. Marconi's 1903 call sign was " C C "
See this link for times, frequencies and modes of operation for W1AA/CC.
http://www.qrz.com/database?callsign=w1aa
Bob Doherty K1VV
Pres. Marconi Radio Club W1AA http://personal.tmlp.com/k1vv/w1aa/
WAR ON TERRORISM ON THE SW BANDS I received many calls in the last two months asking for information about times and frequencies of BBC/VOA and other transmissions. Let me put down some frequencies for you. They provide good coverage of events.
BBC World Service: 0000-0300 17790, 15310, 11955, 9410
0300-1100 17790, 15310; 1100-1700 17700, 15310, 9740’
9510, 9740, 5975 kHz. BBC Sinhal Service 1515-1545 9510, 6140; Tamil 1545-1615 9510, 7205, 6140.
VOICE OF AMERICA: 0000-0300 17820, 17740, 15300, 11820, 9850, 7255, 7200, 7115, 6105, 6015; 1100-1400 9760, 11705, 11715, 6110; 1400-1800 15395, 9760, 9645, 7125, 6110; 1600-1900 13710, 15445, 15205.
RADIO VERITAS Sinhala 0000-0025, 11820, 1330-1425 9520 Taamil 0030-0055 11795, 1400-1425 9520 kHz.
An alternative perspective from VOICE OF THE ISLAMIC REP. OF IRAN ENGLISH 0030-0127 6065 6135 1100-1227 15385 15480 15575 21470 21730 702 765 100.7 ; 1530-1627 9605 11775 11870 1930-2027 6110 9890 11695 15140 702 2130-2227 9780 11740
ALL INDIA RADIO ENGLISH
1000-1100 1053 15260 TO SLK,11585 15020 17800 NoEaAS 13700 17510 17895 AUS NZL 1330-1500 11620 13710 SoEaAS 1745-1945 7410 11620 EUR 11935 13605 15155 17670 AF
GERMANY-DEUTSCHE WELLE ENGLISH 0200-0245 1548 7285, 9615, 9765, 11965, 1600-1645 1548 mw, 6170, 7225, 13605
Well SW radio listening could be great fun at times of crisis. If you have a good radio and know where to listen .to, it can be very exciting. This was my experience listening to the Voice of Shariyat of the Taliban before it was bombed. The station had been operating inside the 7 MHz ham band on 7085 kHz on AM. Their English broadcast was from 1515-1530 UTC. On the 9th of October I was listening to the station until 1600 and when I returned to the frequency at 1608 I found the station missing. The previous evening the US started the bombing campaign and when the electricity supply of Kabul was hit, the station went off the air, however on the 9th when it went I knew the bombing had started again. 10 minutes later the VOA/BBC announced that a second days bombing was on. The next day the station failed to come on the air and it was obvious that the station had been hit the previous night. To think that I knew before the US that the station was hit was quite a listening experience.
If anyone needs any frequencies for any station you are welcome to contact me. Best regards and 73. Victor 4S7VK
FINAL COMMENT BY EDITOR
This month the Newsletter might just make it. Please forgive me because I have been over stretched this past few months. Probably this will be the last Newsletter I will edit. I want to thank 4S7EA for posting the Newsletters on my behalf until the September issue and Dhammika the October and November issues. Thanks and best 73.
Vk.
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