ANNOUNCING THE NAFRAS AFFILIATED CLUB 80 METER CONTEST 2010
ANNOUNCING THE NAFRAS AFFILIATED CLUB
80 METER CONTEST 2010
The NAFRAS (Netherlands Air Force Radio Amateur Society) is organising this year a Affiliated Club 80m Contest.
The contest will take place on the 9 of march 2012 from 18.00 UTC until 21.00 UTC.
PI4NAF will be active with the operator Wim PA0WGV.
The contest is for Ham radio operators and SWL so every OM, YL and XYL can join.
To promote the international character of our club, the affiliated clubs (BAFARA en RAFARS) are also involved.
The details are:
NAFRAS 80 meter contest
Date of contest: Friday 9 march 2012.
Times from/to: 18.00 UTC - 21.00 UTC.
Band: 80 meter.
Mode: SSB.
Frequenties from/to: 3.700 - 3.775 Mhz.
QRG PI4NAF: 3.725 Mhz. +-QRM.
A valid log or SWL rapport should have the following details:
Date, Time, Call, Frequency, QTH, DXCC Country, and Club and Membership number (for participating members of RAFARS, BAFARA en NAFRAS. None members of the affiliated clubs can of course not give a number.
On top of every log sheet should be your own call or SWL number and your complete address
The logs or SWL rapporst should arrive before 10 the of april 2012.
Logs with no or not enough postage will not be accepted.
The address of the contest manager is:
Mrs. E.H. Hoogendoorn PA3GKB
Imminkplein 13
3402 BX IJsselstein
The Netherlands.
How the counting of the points will be done:
Members of RAFARS, BAFARA, members and donation members of NAFRAS gives 10 points and 1 multiplier.
PI4NAF gives 20 points and 1 multiplier.
Other amateurs radio operators gives 1 point.
Each DXCC country (also the own ) gives 1 multiplier.
The winners ranking 1, 2 and 3 will get a nice trophy.
For more details please look at the website.
http://www.nafras.nl
The executive board of the NAFRAS wishes every on a nice contest.
Cees PB9CV NAFRAS 261 (General secretary).
70th Anniversary of the Air Training Corps
Royal International Air Tattoo
RAF FAIRFORD
70th Anniversary of the Air Training Corps
15 TO 17 July 2011
(Public Days 16 & 17)
Again this year at the Royal International Air Tattoo the Air Cadet Radio Team will be supporting the Cadets helping at the Show. Unfortunately this year there will not be a demonstration station for the public to see. However, the Management Radio Team will be holding the ground and will be operating a basic station from their control tent. The Display Station Team will however be on Air from the RAC at RAF Halton and will be coordinate activities on HF. It is also hoped to be able to get some service Stations on Air and may be some Aircraft.
Proposed operating times are:
09.00 hours to 17.00 hours local
The Air Cadet call signs in use will be:
MRV 25 Fairford MRV 90 Halton
Main Frequency 5445
Secondary 5245 N2
Reserve Frequencies 6233, 5770 H7, 4522, 4925 N1, 5088 N3
The frequencies in bold italics have been assigned to the ACO for the period of the Tattoo only and must not be used at other times.
Should it become necessary MRV 90 will act as HF Network Control Station, or delegate another Station.
Please feel free to call this station and please keep any messages short and leave gaps in transmission to allow others to call. If you only have time for a radio Check you will be most welcome to call. Sea and Army cadet Stations are also most welcome to call.
RAFARS RAF Airfields on the Air.
Calling all Units involved with Amateur Radio. The RAF Amateur Radio Society set up stations at sites of current and old airfields from time to time. Further information from the RAFARS web site at: http://www.rafars.org/
NEWSFLASH has been advised of the following Air Cadet involvement:
1003 (Leighton Buzzard) Squadron will be on Air from RAF Stanbridge on 23rd and 24th of July 2011. They will be using callsigns G3ATC and GX8MKC and will be supported by Milton Keynes Radio Society. You should be able to find them on 80M, 40M, 20M and 2M. They would be please to here from any Amateur Radio Station.
Special Event Station
At this site, recently restored by the municipal administration of Folgaria and Autonomous Province of Trento as a memorial park, has been recreated a section of surface-to-air missiles "NIKE Hercules", supplied to NATO during the Cold War and located in eleven others Italian Air Force missile bases present in northern Italy and operational until the end of the sixties, under the NATO air defense system of southern Europe.
At “Thunder Base” are three of these missiles, the last remaining in Europe, positioned on the launch pads, while a fourth missile to be dissected and placed in the building for educational purposes.
The special radio station II3NKE will be managed by amateur radio operators of the "Radio Club Valsugana - Valsugana Servizio Radio Onluss" and will operate on all amateur bands HF / VHF / UHF / SHF on Voice, CW, PSK31,RTTY, APRS and wi-fi.
A special QSL card created for the event, will be sent via bureau to all amateurs who will contact the station, all the info about the QSL manager will be avaiable online. The activation of the special name II3 NKE is queued to the "3rd Reunion" of ex soldiers who served at the "Thunder Base" and other Italian Nike missile bases during the Cold War period.
The II3NKE amateur radio station will operate from control area IFC, on the summit of Mount Toraro, about 3 km from the launch site, where in the cold war period was installed the antenna for radio communications and the three radar for the control of the air space.