The weekend was a huge success with nearly 100 Brownies, Guides, Senior Section & Leaders attending.

Fun on the air

Everyone who visited the radio station sent a greetings message to Brownies & Guides from all over the UK.
Other activities that the young people took part in was trying out morse code, walkie talkie wide games, and learning the phonetic alphabet.

Most of those present completed the Communicator activity badge.  The girls also completed a QSL card with a special Thinking Day message to the Brownie or Guide that they spoke to over the air.
One group of Guides enjoyed it so much that they came back to the radio shack just before bedtime and spent another hour listening to operators from around the world and speaking with fellow Guides in the UK.

Over the weekend we made 197 contacts in 35 different countries and 4 continents, including contacts with Brazil, United Arab Emirates, the Azores and Tasmania.
Members of the club voted this TDOTA the most successful one to date.

Eunice, Bob, George and Kai would like to thank Paisley District for their hospitality.

On Tinto

Club members  once again climbed Tinto and operated a SOTA station from the summit.

They located various Geocaches on the way and left club badges.
The weather was quite cold with some snow at the top but they were able to make the necessary contacts to activate the hill.
In addition they also completed some summit to summit contacts with fellow SOTA enthusiasts.

We have added new material to our Badge Work page.
Check it out before you leave the site.

Inside the Shack

We have now completed the refurbishment of our club radio shack in the Scout Headquarters building.
The new shack features two operating positions and one logging position, with room for interested visitors
A new feature is the prominent place occupied by our wall mounted lcd monitor screens.
These display our current radio setup and electronic logbook as well as propagation information and digital mode decoding output.
The HFsetup consists of a computer controlled Kenwood TS-2000 Transciever connected to an Alfa Delta DX-CC antenna or a Comet HF vertical (both antennas are switchable).
The shack also features a Linear Amp UK HF Linear Amplifier.

The VHF/UHF position is occupied by a Kenwood TM-V71 Dual Band Transciever running into a roof mounted co-linear antenna.
A neat feature of the shack is that all the equipment is removed at the end of the operating period and stowed in our off-site secure storage facillity.