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The Amateur Radio Section of ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)

and the Documentary Archives Radio Communications /QSL Collection

will operate, for 72 hours only, a special event station with the call sign

OE13M

Friday, 19. – Sunday 21. April 2012 (00:00-24:00 UTC)

OE13M is an official “International Marconi Day” station.

Contacts made on Saturday, 20 April 2013, are valid for the IMD Award.

Bureau QSL via OE1WHC. QSL info: www.qrz.com/db/oe13m

Press Contact: Wolf Harranth, OE1WHC

office

QSL motif download www.qsl.at/down/oe13m.tif

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World Thinking Day on the Air (TDOTA)

TDOTA 2013

will be the 3rd full weekend in February 16 & 17

TDOTA is an opportunity for the members of the Guide Association from the youngest Rainbow to the oldest Trefoil Guild member to talk to other members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts all over the world via Amateur Radio.

The 22nd February is Thinking Day because it was the birthday of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout and Guide movements, and his wife Olave, who was the first World Chief Guide.

On this day each year members of WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)
remember the founders of the movement and take part in various activities to think about their sisters throughout the world.

Ken G0FIC

Wow, that went quickly, Christmas has managed to do its old trick of building up for ages and then ending, seemingly, before it started.

Hope you all had a really great time be it with your children, grandchildren, family or quietly at home with your own company and Christmas Television.

All that remains is to wish all members, their families, friends and all visitors to the site a very Happy and Prosperous New Year for 2013. Let’s hope we don’t have too many severe weather incidents and send our best wishes to all who have been affected badly by the recent spate of flooding here in the UK and, of course, to all those folk on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA as they get themselves back to normality after the horror of hurricane Sandy a few weeks back.

We have no way of controlling our weather (good job too) but I believe we are all keeping our fingers firmly crossed for a somewhat more sunny, drier Spring/Summer in 2013, especially at the weekends! we don’t mind overnight rain as long as the days are warm and bright.

Norman

This year we are holding the Christmas get together at Gweal An Top on what would have been the December Constructors evening.

Peter, G3WKP has kindly offered to being along his electronic organ and provide us with background Christmas music to help us get ion the mood for the festive season.

If you are a member and intend to come along and wish to partake in the traditional Rippon’s Pasty which will be delivered to us during the evening please contact Ken G0FIC to let him know your requirements as there is also the opportunity of ordering Rippon’s specialty pasty, the breakfast pasty if you so desire.

If your order is not recorded we cannot guarantee there will be a pasty for you as the amount ordered will be dependent upon the pre-orders received as we do not want to over order, for obvious reasons.

Hope to see many of you there as it should be a good evening.

If you would like to bring along some mince pies and cream or a Stollen Cake don’t hesitate to do so as the more the merrier to help the evening along.

The normal tea and coffee facilities will of course be available to help wash the pasty down.

Well, he completed the jump and whilst it is in inspirational surely he must have his brain disconnected to make such a leap of faith?

Thought we might send Treve M6TCV,up hanging from one of the balloons from Treswithian to establish a record for Cornish Hams.

Have you ever thought ‘where are all the local amateurs’ as you scan the bands when operating on air. I bet you have, we all have from time to time. Set put below is a table of regularly occurring Nets so, looking on the bands at the regular times should give you a chance to find some of us and also the chance to call in and become part of your local amateur radio scene.

Local Cornish Nets – Times & Frequencies

HF Local All SSB

Sundays at 10.30am 3.746Mhz +- if QRM

Sundays at 10.30am 7.040Mhz +- if QRM

Mondays at 20.30 28.333Mhz +- if QRM

Wednesdays at 20.00 3.686Mhz +- if QRM

VHF

Sundays at 9.30 145.725 NC Repeater following the RSGB News

VHF – SSB

Tuesday at 8.30pm 144.333Mhz +- if QRM

Of course we do chat on 2m, 70cm and 4m from time to time and always welcome anyone joining in. Don’t be shy we can’t bite you, it’s radio.

Norman

2012 has been extremely unusual as we have been permitted to use not one, but two special prefixes which have been extremely well received by Amateurs throughout the World.

First we were able to apply for a notice of variation to use the letter ‘Q’ for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations followed by the ‘O’ for the extended period over the span of the Olympic Games replacing where necessary our local identifier with those letters as follows:

M3aaa becomes MQ3aaa
G3aaa becomes GQ3aaa
GM3aaa becomes GQ3aaa
2E0aaa becomes 2Q0aaa
2M0aaa becomes 2Q0aaa
GX3aaa becomes GQ3aaa

There was an award scheme run in conjunction with WAB (worked all Britain) and Dennis G7AGZ/M3DJS was certainly chasing the special stations that were operational as the Olympic torch made its way around the UK. Locally the Poldhu Club operated the WAB station, the first of them, of course.

There were three official Olympic Special Event Stations operational and I did manage to come across all three on 40M over the period of both of the games and have all 3 logged, although, I was nor actively chasing them.

I wonder if we have any other events coming along in the foreseeable future? can’t think of anything coming up that will be considered important enough, perhaps, a Royal birth, death or marriage?

Feel free to leave some comments concerning your achievements with the call sign variations, nukmber of stations worked, awards achieved or your thoughts on how well the special prefix was received by your contacts.

Norman

We are not planning a foundation Course for some months as immediately following the Advanced Course now in train there will be an Intermediate Course expected to commence at the end of February/early March.

However, we have been contacted by some candidates who have studied at home and as a result have arranged to hold a practical assessment day on October 13th for those who have been in touch and will follow up with the examination itself at a later date.

Should it be impossible to hold the test before the Advanced exam it could be taken in January along with those candidates.

Best of luck to them all.