ISLE OF WIGHT RADIO SOCIETY - April 2000 issue
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AGM
The AGM is on Friday 14th April at 8 pm in the club hut. There
will be a bring and buy sale. Donations gratefully received, else
10% to club funds.
Get thinking! Get nominating!
Enclosed is your nomination slip for the election of club
officers at the Annual General Meeting. It is time to consider
your committee for the forthcoming year. Remember that you must
be a paid-up member to be eligible to vote, and you should check
that the nominee is willing to stand before submitting your
nomination.
Offices comprise Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, and there are
places for four serving members. If you fancy having a direct say
in the running of the club, why not see about getting yourself
nominated? Meetings are normally monthly, and involvement is not
necessarily onerous.
I hope you feel the present committee has served you adequately,
if not well.
Website
The more observant amongst you will have noticed an addition to
the newsletter headings above.
Thanks to Alan G4ZFQ's initiative we now have a website. It is
Alan's website, but on it we have our last two newsletters and
details of the club including photos and a map. Links to this
site are being developed, so that visitors to the island or other
interested parties might find us. We are not that easy to find,
of course, especially on a winter's night!
Hopefully our mainland associate members will be able to save on
postage by checking the site on a monthly basis for news.
Thanks again to Alan. Watch that space!
Contest Result
Readers of Radcom will already know the outcome of the SSB Field
Day Contest, but for others here it is ......
A disappointing 14th position out of 18 teams.
G3SKY/P was put together in great haste, you may recall, and was
a first attempt under such circumstances. However the station
worked well, it was supported well-enough to keep the station
running for the 24 hour period, and well .... we thought we did
quite well!...? Our score was 63504 points, but the team that
came 8th scored nearly double this figure, and the winning team
in this restricted section scored a staggering 342,500 points!
I suppose we have to remember that we have little expertise in
contests on this scale, and that we did have some fun. However, I
really don't know what we could do next year that might help us
improve our position. Suggestions would be welcomed ......
Adieu Brian
We're sorry that Brian M1DBM has moved abroad and that we shall
not be seeing so much of him.
We hope he will be happy, and will stay in touch.
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