Author: G3VRE Admin

It is with great pleasure to announce that GB7WW, a new 70cm DMR repeater, was switched on by Brian G6HUI at 19:15 hours on Tuesday 25th July 23. The repeater is connected to the South West Cluster and runs just two Talk Groups; TG950 and TG9. Coverage reports would be most welcome but initial reports all around Chippenham are excellent. We hope to have a presentation evening about the repeater and in particular about the South West Cluster over coming months.

Here we see Brian G6HUI switching on GB7WW:

A number of QSOs were made that evening via the new repeater and here we see John G0JYL in QSO with Nev G3LMO

John G0JYL using the Anytone AT878UV Plus

At 8pm we held a final Rally Planning meeting and Chairman Brian outlined our plans and arrangements for Sunday’s rally. It certainly looks as though its going to be a big one.

Once the Rally meeting was over the remainder of the evening was spent holding general radio discussions and talks. We welcomed two new members Ron G1OKD and SWL Thomas who hopes to take his Foundation Licence in the near future.

Jacek (M0PLS) once again tried out the 40m Double Bazooka and made plenty of contacts under the Club callsign of GX3VRE. Jacek is already planning for HF Field Day activities and will be looking for operators to assist with that event in September.

GX3VRE Operations on 40m with the Double Bazooka antenna.

That’s all for this week but we hope to see as many of you as possible on Sunday at the Wiltshire Radio Rally and Car Boot Sale – whatever the weather the rally is On On On !

Wiltshire Radio Rally and Car Bootsale – Rain or Shine the Event is on.

As Sat Nav’s are so accurate we will only be signing from the junctions at the start of the village (e.g from the A350 and the B4069)

We look forward to seeing you soon

Rain or Shine the event is ON ON ON

Brian and Jon are pleased to announce that the Motorola DR3000 repeater and Cavities have arrived and the repeater is now programmed for GB7WW and the South West Cluster.

GB7WW 70cm DMR Repeater on test at Chippenham Club – Coming soon to the South West Cluster Network.

On Tuesday we had the opportunity to test the new machine in to a dummy load and everything seemed to work perfectly. We had a QSO with Russ M0WYB in Peasdown and Dick G8DER in Salisbury. We hope to switch WW on before the Wiltshire Radio Rally on Sun July 30th.

We also welcomed Thomas from Devizes who came along to learn more about the hobby and we hope he had an enjoyable evening and we hope to see him again soon.

Of Course we couldn’t pass up on some more HF activity and our STAR portable operator Jacek M0PLS operated with the Discovery 500 transceiver with its matching 60watt amplifier. Tonight Jacek was keen to try a 40m Double Bazooka purchased from Wire Antennas UK from Salisbury Wiltshire. Jacek said ” I cant believe the low noise levels on that antenna” as he worked one station after another. The 40m Double Bazooka was an instant hit and here’s an image of it below:

The 40m Double Bazooka certainly caused a stir on Tuesday.

Well that’s about it for this week but don’t forget our rally is coming up fast and we will be holding the final rally planning meeting next Tuesday the 26th July. Till next time our best wishes from the Chippenham Club Website Team.