VK HQ station VK4KW

Hi Bob,

A bit of news for the Beru website.

This is an announcement from the WIA for the contest:

RSGB 80th Commonwealth Contest 11 and 12 March for 24 hours FROM 10.00 GMT.
The challenge of contesting has endured from the earliest days of
radio communication and is part of modern Amateur Radio activities
that are now very diverse.

The Commonwealth Contest celebrates its 80th, and is a CW-only
affair run by the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).

Proudly taking part on behalf of the IARU member radio society the
WIA, is Headquarters Station VK4KW. It will be run by Phil VK4BAA
and Trent VK4TS with contact to VK4KW eligible for special
multiplier points.

The RSGB will also have three draws with mementos as prizes for the
lucky Commonwealth country entrants.

The 80th Commonwealth Contest will be March 11 and 12 – see the
rules for more details.

URL: http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2017/rberu.shtml

(Jim Linton VK3PC)

We’re Beru virgins, so be gentle with us!

73,

Phil VK4BAA / VK4KW

Hi Bob

Hope all is well with you!

I am proud to announce that Australia Team 2 for the Commonwealth Contest will be:

VK2PN

VK7BO

VK2GR

VK3JA

VK6VZ

The team pretty much spans the continent, with four states being represented. Hopefully the propagation will favour all of us. 😉

Vy 73

Steve, VK6VZ (captain)

Australia Team 1

Hi there

Australia is again  entering two teams in the 2017  Commonwealth Contest.

I’m the captain for Team 1. The members of this team are as follows:

VK6LW

VK2BJ

VK4CT

VK4SN

VK3MI (Captain)

Steve VK6VZ is the captain of Team 2 and he will also be submitting a list of team members shortly.

73, Brian VK3MI

Team Med

Team Med currently consists of C4I ( G3VYI and G3UFY ), and 9H1MRC ( Peter G3TJE  et al ). Anyone else ‘in the med’ please join the team ! contact mike G3VYI mike.franklin3@btinternet.com

73 mike G3VYI

Caribbean to UK propagation 2016

This is the pattern of activity from the Caribbean ( J3 ) to the UK in 2016.

CU this year from 8P9IF.  73 Bob G3PJT

E51KTA

Hi Bob, as just 11 days to E51KTA final prep going on.... good luck for
your own endeavours.

Yippee no new jabs needed, car booked me & 34KG of kit to take me to
airport 

31KG of the kit is antennas and feeders, 1KG KX3 (inc cables), just 2KG
clothes!
At US$95 per kilo for each of the three legs above 30KG I think I can
buy T shirts and toothpaste when there cheaper!

It looks as I *MIGHT* have slow internet whilst on island at a lot of cost!
Loose access as soon as I go on the boat though to other island.

http://www.bluesky.co.ck/brochures/Bluesky-Brochure-Visitor-SIM.pdf

See you at P&P unless offski early

72
Dom

M1KTA

VA2RAC

Hi Bob..
VA2RAC  RAC HQ will be on air for 2017 Beru operated by Claude VE2FK.

73, Claude VE2FK

Long path propagation SOTA event over BERU weekend

Mike, 2E0YYY, Andrew, VK1DA and Ed, DD5LP are planning another long path propagation SOTA Summit to Summit event for 11 March starting at 0630 UTC.

Activity will be SSB or CW on 20 metres and going by the last action in October 2016, over 30 summits are expected to be active concurrently over Europe, Australia, New Zealand and possibly Japan.

Check reflector.sota.org.uk for details.

Miniature

Hi Bob

Hope you are all set for the off?  Still juggling weight allowances here, as I have to take most of the kit ( to VY2 ) that went to Gozo in 2012/3, but by air!

I have just received the first off , ready for engraving with the winner of the 80th event.  To my amazement, it weighs within one gram of the original, so this 3D printing really works!  I have now gone ahead with the other nine.  Pic attached.

The bases will be turned from African blackwood.  These are being produced as a batch for reasons of economy and will take a few more days.

73, Peter G3LET

Thoughts Occasioned by the Sunday Morning Long-Path Opening to Australia and New Zealand, 9th March 2008 by Gerry Lynch GI0RTN

I will go to forty metres
On this sunny BERU morn
Where the strong Antipodeans
Make me glad that I was born.

Signal bearing polar flutter
From the town of Christchurch fair,
Lands upon this Irish meadow
Answering my silent prayer.

Signals coming on the long path
From a far Australian shore,
Crossing ice and sea and jungle,
Coming to increase my score.

Sigs from Asia’s teeming cities;
Sigs from Afric’s dusty plains;
Sigs from small Pacific islands;
To this land of gentle rains.

Some ops work me with a yagi,
Some ops work me with a wire,
Some ops work me with a groundplane,
Late on eighty, when I tire.

Fickle paths on ten and fifteen
Barely open ere they’re gone.
Booming DX strong on 20.
Strong at sunset, strong at dawn.

I will go to forty metres
On this sunny BERU morn,
Sinful would it be to let those
CQ Contests rest forlorn.

(With acknowledgement to Seamus Heaney or is it WB Yeats?).