{"id":1164,"date":"2023-05-06T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaradioclub.co.uk\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:09:05","slug":"wednesday-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galaradioclub.co.uk\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a few photos of some Wednesday night meetings’ technical goings-on. Not the same night, but several nights at the start of 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had a “magnetic loop” antenna night when several members brought their various magnetic loop antennas to look at. Bob GM4CID tested them for frequency and efficiency using a MiniVNA analyser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Colin MM1APS was looking inside a Kenwood TK-705 mobile set to fault find problems with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opening up a vintage Cambridge Pye shortwave radio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colin brought in an old valve tester to test some vacuum tubes for another piece of equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colin fixing a member’s Icom IC-756 Pro-II radio. Spot the destroyed component he’s trying to replace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mike MM3NTX brought in his Icom IC-706 radio to be frequency-calibrated because he was told it was “very slightly off” when he bought it second-hand. Colin brought in his frequency standard (receiving the 60kHz MSF signal from Anthorn) to calibrate the club’s frequency counter, and then in-turn used that to adjust the Icom. The radio was 400Hz out at about 145MHz, adjusted to within about 5Hz of frequency which is pretty good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John GM7MUN brought in his old 486 PC running MS-DOS as it had the hardware and software to program his Philips FM 1000 mobile sets. Bob helped him with the programming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few photos of some Wednesday night meetings’ technical goings-on. Not the same night, but several nights at the start of 2023. We had a “magnetic loop” antenna night when several members brought their various magnetic loop antennas …<\/p>\n

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