Crawley Microwave Roundtable

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A Microwave Roundtable event is being held at the Crawley Amateur Radio Club on Sunday 20th September 2015 

The event will feature a mixture of talks, measurements and goodies of interest to Amateur / Ham Radio enthusiasts - Admission is free of charge.

The morning session will feature a 'bring and buy' sale, with the afternoon session offering several planned presentations.

  • Easy ways to getting onto 24GHz, by Roger Ray G8CUB
  • A Stable Masthead 9cm Receiver, by Mike Scott G3LYP
  • Threats and opportunities at mmWaves, by the Chair of the RSGB Spectrum Forum Murray Niman G6JYB

The event starts at 10am and finishes around 4:30pm at Hut 18, Tilgate Recreational Centre, Tilgate Forest, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11 9BQ.

Crawley Microwave Round Table Schedule - http://www.microwavers.org/?cra-prog.htm

GB2EMF at EMF 2014 Amateur Radio Village

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There will be an amateur radio village at the Electromagnetic Field EMF 2014 event taking place 29-31 August 2014 at Bletchley near Milton Keynes

EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics, space, homebrewing, robots, UAVs, 3D printing, DIYBio, Internet culture or pretty much anything else you can think of.

It is a volunteer effort by a non-profit group, inspired by European and US hacker camps like Chaos Communication Camp, HAR, and toorcamp.

Imagine a camping festival with a power grid and high-speed internet access; a temporary village of geeks, crafters, and technology enthusiasts that's lit up by night, and buzzing with activity during the day. Over a thousand curious people will descend on the friendly open space to learn, share, and talk about what they love.

Over a long weekend, you can expect to see a huge variety of talks across three stages, a slew of workshops, as well as music, games, and installations dotted around the site.

Attendees are invited to set up their own villages — camps within the camp — where like-minded people can camp together and put on their own activities. The hard-working EMF team of volunteers will supply you with power and internet to your tent.

The special event station GB2EMF will be run from the Amateur Radio Village, it had been hoped to have a 70cm/2m crossband FM repeater operational during the event but it looks as though Ofcom licensing issues may preclude this.

EMF 2014 takes place 29-31 August 2014 near Newton Longville, just South of Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK17 0BU.

EMF Amateur Radio Village https://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Villages:Amateur_Radio

 

Ham Radio Show Friedrichshafen a success

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The Amateur / Ham Radio event in Friedrichshafen continues to grow, with over 17,000 visitors attending in 2014, up nearly two thousand from 2013.

Visitors to this years show also were able to take in Maker World, an event happening on the event campus at the same time.
 
Visitors to the Friedrichshafen Amateur / Ham Radio Show were treated to a launch of a balloon carrying an amateur radio transmitter.

USKA Friedrichshafen report (Google English) - http://tinyurl.com/Friedrichshafen-2014