Author: iomars_admin

The IOMARS Full Licence Course starts this Wednesday, 24 October at 19.00 in the Malew Scout Building in Ballasalla. The course will be upstairs rather than in the main hall.

The requested manuals have now arrived so they will be ready for collection.

I will be dealing mainly with passive components, resistors, capacitors and inductors and combinations there off, in this first session, so please bring along some of your own for measurement. I will have an LCR meter with me, which can also measure ESR, Q and phase angle.

See most of you there this Wednesday.
73s
Richard
GD8EXI

A recent member consultation re the annual rental of the club shack in Ballasalla resulted in only positive responses.

The committee are now pleased to advise everyone that the IOMARS club shack will continue to be at Mill Road, Ballasalla until further notice.

IOMARS committee.

An information bulletin has today (20th September 2018) been sent to your registered email address.
If you are a member and do not receive it please contact Andy Morgan GD1MIP, via the email IOMARS@manx.net

Thanks

Due to the difficulties of travel over the TT period we have decided not to hold club evening meetings at the shack in Ballasalla . Back again straight after  TT 2018.

Manx repeater supporters…..

Just to keep you all updated, I have today paid the annual insurance premium of £70 for the seven Manx repeaters namely GB3GD, GB3IM-C, GB3IM-R, GB3IM-S, GB3IM-P, GB7CA, GB7BR.

This insurance is primarily for 3rd party risks.

This is one of the ways the IOMARS support our repeater keeper David Osborn GD4HOZ.

Andy GD1MIP IOMARS Treasurer.

http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&contest=4mcumulatives&seq=1

Don’t forget. This Sunday the 4m RSGB contest, 10:00 to 12:00 hours.

Go on, give it a try and add your score to the IOMARS total.

Don’t forget. This Sunday the 70cm RSGB AFS contest. 9am till 1pm.

Go on, give it a try and add your score to the IOMARS total.

http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/contest_rules.pl?year=2018&contest=afs432MHz

I have just uploaded the latest firmware from here…

http://md380.tools/features/

There are many new features over the stock firmware. Which has improved greatly. The main one for me is the fact that I can now reduce the brightness of the display.

Make sure you read the instructions carefully. Mistakes will stop the radio working.

The RSGB 70cm AFS contest runs between 09:00 and 13:00 hours GMT on Sunday 4th February 2018.
If you have some time to spare you could help the IOMARS club score.
See http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/contest_rules.pl… for more details.

Any activity would help, even half an hour at 10 watts. Go on you know you want to.

The Isle of Man astronomical society are inviting you to visit their event this weekend 19th, 20th and 21st January 2018.

Please see the attached for full details…