BATH AMATEUR RADIO
CLASSES
Steve Hartley G0FUW
Lead Instructor
5 Sydenham Buildings
Lower Bristol Road
BATH, BA2 3BS
The next round of amateur radio training courses in the area are planned to take place as follows:
· Oldfield School, Kelston Road, Bath
· Thursdays
· 7-9pm
· Tutors - Steve Hartley G0FUW, Mike Coombs G3VTO & Lewis Thomas G4YTN
The classes will commence with a Foundation Licence course for complete beginners. That will run between 4th September and 16th October. The cost of the textbook, exam and other expenses will be a total of £50 (£40 for members of the RSGB Bristol Group).
A Foundation to Intermediate conversion course will run between 23rd October and 22nd January. This will only be open to those who have already passed the Foundation assessments. The maximum cost of this course will be £74 (or £64 for continuing students/members of the RSGB Bristol Group) plus the cost of a construction project (chosen by the student).
The Intermediate to Advanced conversion course will follow between 29th January and the June (or August) exam. This course will only be open to those who have passed the Intermediate assessments. The maximum cost of this course will be £92 (or £82 for continuing students/members of the RSGB Bristol Group).
To register, students need to complete a form and return it to me with a cheque for the appropriate amount as soon as possible. You can contact me on 01225-464-394 or on e-mail: hartley_steve@hotmail.com
Feel free to copy to friends, relatives and any other interested parties!
Regards,
Steve
Foundation Student Registration Form
Intermediate Student Registration Form
Advanced Student Registration Form
The GB3JB site has some great photos of the repeater site.
Link
From Jan G8CYV:
Hi All,
As the regular users of GB3JB will have noticed, we have recently been suffering from interference from users of GB3PC, who put a strong signal into the ‘JB’ site and are splattering across the ‘JB’ input frequency, presumably as a result of not have a narrow deviation capability on their equipment.
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The next meeting of Bath amateurs will be in the Boathouse (map) on 06 August 2008, starting around 20:00 - 20:30.
Congratulations to Mark, Bob, Andrea, Terry, Graham, Michael and Ian on passing the intermediate exam.
It was a clean sweep!
The first Bath Buildathon took place on Saturday 26 January with 12 amateurs building their first transceivers. Some had been licensed for years but had never built anything whilst others were Intermediate students from the Bath radio classes. Builders travelled from as far away as Wolverhampton, East Grinstead and Southampton showing that there is still a widespread interest in homebrewing in the UK.
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I have a difficult location for building aerials - I’m at the bottom of a 4 storey building, and my garden faces a public park with a pathway running right alongside my boundary fence making them a tempting target for passing kids. I’m also almost directly below the communal TV aerial.
To cut a long and boring story short, I decided the best option (for now) was a rotary dipole for 80m - and it needed to be discrete if it was to avoid complaints.
And withstand ‘very’ high winds on a regular basis.
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