Kingdom Amateur Radio
Society meets from 7.15pm onwards every third Wednesday of the month.
The venue is at the Scottish Scout HQ, Fordell Firs, near Dunfermline.
Visitors are most welcome but to arrange admission must contact us first on
visitors@kars.org.uk or call Bernie,
GM4WZG on 01383 821690.
At around 7.45pm there is an opportunity to discuss club business and
any preparation needed for club events. This is followed by the
main programme item.
Society Membership is £10 January – December. Attendees
are asked to contribute £1 for refreshments/lighting/heating if they can
afford it.
Some of the items in the programme are awaiting confirmation. Others
are lined up and definite. You can always check here to see what the up
to date programme looks like.
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January 13th |
Contest.
KARS members are taking part in the CW AFS contest from their
homes, and combining scores to make an official entry.
(confirmed)
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January 16th |
Monthly Meeting -
Opening Night.
Talk in on S21 for our first evening - just to make sure you
find us!
Brian MM0XBD will talk briefly about the Society and its
aims. (confirmed)
Malcolm, GM3TAL will present a talk and a practical
demonstration of Small Magnetic Loop Antennas. Watch out for the
sparks ! (confirmed)
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January 19th |
Contest
KARS members are taking part in the SSB AFS
contest from their homes, and combining scores to make an
official entry.
(confirmed)
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February 20th |
Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker
Stewart, GM4AFF was part of the CT9L contest team this year
for CQ WW. He hopes to get away from a busy travelling
schedule to speak to us tonight about his contest
experiences.
We know that
Stewart sometimes has to travel for his work at the drop of
a hat so just in case, Alex GM3ZBE will be ready to give an
alternative presentation "Doublets, Dipoles and Decibels"
which went down a treat at the RSGB HF Convention.
(programme items to be
confirmed)
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March 19th |
Monthly Meeting -
Out and About Night
Guest Speaker Jack, GM4COX will give us a talk about his
SOTA exploits. (Summits on the Air)
(confirmed)
We're awaiting the video of the 3B7C Brandon Isles dx-pedition.
Depending on its length we'll show it tonight. If its a bit
of a squeeze we'll screen it later in the year.
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April 16th |
Monthly Meeting -
Ham Radio from VP8
Dave Burke,
GM6SZJ worked with British Antarctic Survey and operated as
VP8AQA from Faraday Base. Tonight Dave will talk
to us about his experiences - both of life on the ice and of
ham radio from one of the more unusual locations in the
world !
(confirmed)
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May 21st |
Monthly Meeting - Club Visit
We've arranged a
visit this evening to the Glenrothes Police Control Room.
There will be no meeting at Fordell. Don't be the one
to turn up there !
Details of when
and where to meet will be published here shortly.
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7/8th June |
Contest
RSGB NFD CW – 1500-1500
The club will make an entry in this
contest. We're looking for both experienced operators and
'newbies'. Whoever you are, there'll be practice
beforehand so we can try and get it right on the day.
The more volunteers to help the better !
(confirmed)
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June 18th |
Monthly Meeting - Antenna Modelling Night
Talk and
demonstration by Alex GM3ZBE. Computer Modelling of
Antennas and Feedlines – How and Why ?
(confirmed)
Very short demo of a free version
of Antenna Modelling Software by Bernie GM4WZG
(confirmed)
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July 19th and 20th |
Fun Activity Day/RSGB
Low Power Field Day
Join us at
Fordell Firs for a relaxing couple of days doing what radio
clubs do best - playing radio, socialising, enjoying the
weather regardless of how it is, and having a barbie).
Somewhere in all
of that if we still have the energy we might be putting an
entry in for the RSGB Low Power field Day.
(confirmed)
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July 16th |
Monthly Meeting
- Special Event Planning/Operating Evening
We'll be planning the two special events of the year and
we'll take the opportunity to assemble the station and try
it out
(confirmed)
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August 16th/17th |
Special Event
Station
Lighthouse
Weekend - The first of our special event stations of
the year. See it both as a nice day out and as practice for
the main event - Jamboree On The Air in October
(confirmed).
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August 20th |
Monthly Meeting
We're
planning a summer recess but if enough folk are still around
during the summer holiday period we'll still have a meeting
(programme item to be confirmed).
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September 6/7th |
Contest
RSGB SSB
Field Day 1300-1300
Hot on the
heels of earlier successes (we hope!) we'll be having a good
bash at the RSGB main event
(confirmed).
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September 17th |
Monthly Meeting -
Computing and Radio Night
We'll have a
short talk by Bernie GM4WZG on the NCDXF Project and the KARS
monitoring station
(confirmed).
Followed by a
demo of PSK by Brian MM0XBD.
(confirmed)
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October 15th |
Monthly Meeting -
JOTA Preparation
Our regular
meeting room is where we operate JOTA from. There will be
lots to do to get a first class demonstration station on air
with all the supporting materials
(confirmed).
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October 18th/19th |
Jamboree On The
Air,
We'll be at
the usual monthly meeting place but this time expect a
steady stream of interested young visitors. We're setting up
to have nice big strong signals for greetings message
exchanges. If there's enough of us, lets get a beam up, and
lets get some power going - this'll be no QRP event !
(confirmed)
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November 19th |
Monthly Meeting -
AGM
The AGM will
be followed by our guest speaker Ian White, GM3SEK - Editor,
'The VHF/UHF DX Book' and 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom
(RSGB). Ian to many, needs no introduction and will be
speaking to us on a topic to be decided a little nearer the
time
(confirmed).
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December |
No Monthly Meeting -
Too much in
the way of festivities this month...!
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