THE FIRST CLASS C.W.

OPERATORS CLUB
Editor: G4BUE

NEWS SHEET 572

(Callsigns in brackets indicate G4FOC operator) June - VHF and 10m Until 17 BV3/DJ3KR 13-20 SV8/G3SWH 25 Deadline for July N/Sheet 26-28 G3RTE Lundy island 28 Northern Get-together 28/30 EU-094 by G3RTE/G3SWH July - 40 and 12m (G3PDL) 19 Committee meeting 24/29 EU-012 by GM4SID 28 Deadline for August N/Sheet August - 30 and 10m (G4HZV) 10-22 EA6/G3RWL

June 1997

A man should keep his friendship in constant repair - Samuel Johnson (1755).

BANDS OF THE MONTH FOR JUNE ARE 10 METERS AND VHF

Friends Welcome to the first News Sheet published from Highcroft Farmhouse, our new QTH at Pulborough in West Sussex. We moved here on 20 May officially, but actually moved on the 19, 20 and 21 May! This is what happens when you combine a business with a home and have hobbies like amateur radio and gardening that involve lots of bulky items. The removal company allocated three full size removal vans for us and even then they had to return the week after we moved in with what they were unable to load onto the third van, and that was after we had gone through everything and thrown a lot of things away! Anyway, we are here, and in the process of sorting the packing cases out and getting our business up and running again. We have been beset with all sorts of problems and snags and can now understand why so many of you said you would never move again. However, we are looking to the longer term when everything is sorted out, and when we will have time to enjoy the peace and tranquility of the countryside surrounding us. We are back on E-mail, but with a new provider (g4bue@adur-press.prestel.co.uk), back on the UK DX Cluster and have the new telephone and fax numbers working. All that remains now is to get the Butternut vertical erected to get back on the air, and then follows more detailed antenna planning. Some overseas members may receive envelopes with our old address on for the next month or two. Please dont think we have moved back to Alamosa; we are using up our stock of printed envelopes!

FOC CALENDAR

25 Deadline for FOCUS 32 28 Deadline for September N/Sheet September - 40 and 15m 25 Deadline for October N/Sheet 26-28 RSGB HF & IOTA Colnvention October - 80 and 17m 3 June and Chriss Open House 4 Lords 5 Mauds Open House 28 Deadline for November N/Sheet November - 160 and 20m (G3KTZ) 17 Deadline for FOCUS 33 27 Deadline for December N/Sheet December - 30 and 15m (GW3KGV) 6 Florida Dinner

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION by G3MXJ

Starred List
2. N4KG: GM3POI, G4BUE, N4AR, W1BIH, W9VNE (+K4LTA). 2. GORH: G3LIK, G3RVM, GM3UA, K4EF, ZL1AH (+N4AR, W9KNI, VE1BN, VK8AV). 1. KF2AT: EI5BW, F3AT, G4RMV, K5DQ, VE3DZZ (+W9NN, G3LIK). 1. W4PM: G3IEW, K1JD, N2UU, W4DGJ, YV1NX. 1. G3YXX: G3WUX, G4HZV, GW0FJT, W3NZ, VE7NH.

An invitation has been issued to G3MRC.

6. WB8APR: K4EWG. 5. DL1IAO: N1BB, N3JT, W1HMD, GM3POI, W4AN, W2DX, W4MJ. 5. F5NQL: F3AT. 4. VA3LK: K4EF, N4VJ, VE7BS, WIAK, EA8CN. 4. K2VCO: K2VUI, K1RH, W2MUM. 4. A45ZN: VK8AV. 4. N3BB: N4VJ, K5NA, K9BG, JA1NUT, DL4CF, W9GIL, W3NZ, N3RS. 4. W1XU: W6OV. 3. GCHV: G4PKD, EI5BW, G3LIK. 3. K7OQ: K7UOT, K4LTA. 2. K5AX: EA8CN. 2. K2ZR: WB2YQH. 2. K1SM: W1AX, K1AJ, W1BIH. 2. WL7E/7: ZL1MH.

Additional Nominations

AL SLATER, G3FXB MEMORIAL TROPHY by G3MXJ

Members are reminded that nominations for this years trophy should be submitted to me by 5 July. See News Sheet 526 for the procedure for making nominations. The New Member criteria for the award is described on page 6 1682 G3PQC (Doug): P. D. G. Turk, 13 The of the Call Book and you are reminded that Crescent, Farnborough, Hants GU14 7AR; recipients need not be members of FOC. xyl - Marie; tel - 01252 544268. First I must apologise for causing confusion by putting a budgetary ticket price in one News Sheet, followed by the Committee sanctioned price in the next News Sheet.

LORDS UPDATE by G4HZV

G4BUE (1308): new address - Highcroft Farmhouse, Gay Street, Pulborough, West Sussex RH20 2HJ; telephone - 01798 815711; fax 01798 813054.

Amendments

G4MVA (1565): resigned. KP4/AA5DX (1620): telephone - 787 885 4586. OH2BDP (937): new callsign - OH2EA. W1CCN (A1443): delete - no subscription received and no reply to correspondence. W1NV (1505): fax - 207 633 7945. N2DAN (909): Silent Key W4/G4BKI (1578): new address - 51 Main St, Dunedin, FL 34698. K4LQ (1434): restore to full membership K4OJ (1222): new address - 1508 W Patterson, Tampa, FL 33604, USA; telephone - 813 930 8873. AREA CODE CHANGES: - the following have changed their telephone area codes from 203 to 860: W1RAN, K1RM, W1WEF, K1ZZ and N4XR. E-MAIL ADDRESSES: a reminder that E-mail address updates are no longer published in the News Sheet but should be sent to Rene, OZ1LQH, who maintains the directory. A copy of the listing is available at <http:// home3.inet.tele.dk/rene/email/email.zip>, (see also page 2). Mailings to the following members at the current registered address have recently been returned, so their listed E-mail addresses have been deleted from the list. Please update to Rene if you have a new address: G3WPF, DJ6RX, EA5BS, HB9QO, S52AA, K1AR, N1DG, K1JD, K1YT, W4AN, W4TAJ, N9DX and W9VNE.

THE 1997 WINDLE TROPHY

Score updates can be passed to any G3LIK, G3MXJ, G4BUE or any committee member. An asterisk against the call indicates the score has been updated this month. Table shows the scores received by 1000z 31 May 1997.
GM3POI K9QVB* K4KQ* K4LTA G3KTZ* W9GIL G3LIK* N6NT GIVZ G4ZVJ W3NZ* W3VT* G3ZEM K9BG W1BIH 317 292 262 248 238 236 235 225 222 222 188 188 182 178 172 K5DQ YV1NX* W6DU N1BB G3IY* DL6TQ W9GW* K7UOT* W4FOA* G4RMV* G4PKD* G4HZV W8KJP SM5COP W1WEF* 170 170 168 164 152 149 147 144 144 143 140 139 138 136 134 G3VMW 131 W8XM* 131 G2FDF 130 OK1KT* 127 F3AT* 126 G4ODV* 126 K4EF 125 K1JKS 121 W5XJ* 121 DL4CF 120 K1RM* 115 AA5TN* 113 G3IEW 113 JA7SSB* 111 N3SZQ 111 AC5K* SMCOP G3MCK* U3DR G3MXJ* LA1IE W5GEL N4YGP* ZP6CW W6THN G3KKQ G3RVM VE3DZZ G4BUE* N4TO 110 110 107 104 102 102 101 96 94 93 92 92 90 89 89 88 86 KP4/AA5DX*86 W4DGJ 86 W6GTI 86 GEBW* 84 G3VCN 82 KT5X 82 W2DX* 82 K7UOT 81 W6IJ 80 W8AV 80 G4SFO 75 K4FU 75 PALOU 75 G3IZD G3LHJ* W1HT* ZL2AGY* K6OU* G2HKU* G3TXF G3WGV K4BAI G4BJM G8VG* GM4SID* PABW W4TAJ GM3UA GW3KDB VK8AV* 74 75 75 73 73 72 72 70 70 70 70 70 69 68 68 YO4PX WA4SNI G3CWW* W1NV* WB2YQH* EA8CN* GM3SID G3JJZ* W2GW* OZ1LO* G3NOH* W1HL* DK4LX G4XRV* K6TS 68 67 66 65 65 64 63 61 61 60 58 58 57 57 57 GW3KGV G3NKS N4LS W4CK GW3SB* W9NN LA2UA W4DHZ KP4L VE3AR SM6AOU* G3SXW* KC7V ZL1AH 56 56 55 54 52 46 45 45 44 43 42 34 34 33 DJ9SB K6DC GM3HUN OH2EA* LA3FL K1AJ VK3MJ W2MEL K2VUI N4WJ W8VSK JP1BJR* W1AX K4LT 30 27 25 23 22 20 20 18 15 11 11 10 10 7

To set the record straight, the ticket price for Lords 1997 is 27.50. Please send your cheques, payable to FOC, direct to Maud. If you are paying Elliott, W2MUM, then $44 will do nicely. The list of overseas members who have expressed an interest continues to grow: VE7NH, K1AJ, K1RM, WIRM, K2VUI, N4AR, K5NA and ZL3GQ to name a few. The Southern California DX Club have announced that the 1998 International DX Convention will be held 1/3 May at the Holiday Inn, Visalia, California. Can one of our W6 members confirm whether the FOC West Coast Dinner dinner is going to be held on the Friday evening as usual? This will be one week before the Washington DC Dinner and two weeks before the Dayton Hamvention and the FOC Breakfast on the Sunday morning. Reservations at the Holiday Inn can be made from 1 June for 1997 attendees and from 1 August for others. I have now made a small program, that converts the E-mail list to formats that can be imported or used in other programmes. At the moment it can make files for Pegasus Mail, WWMail and Netscape Mail. The programme uses my E-mail list, and makes the files that you want from that file. If you would like to take a look at the programme, it can be downloaded from this address: <http://home3.inet.tele.dk/rene/ email/email.html>. Please read the FOC.DOC file before using the program. The E-mail listing can also be downloaded here. Congratulations to Bob, W6RGG, and Bob, W6RJ, on being elected new members of the CQ DX Hall of Fame at Dayton. They were two of only three new members. Congratulations also to John, K1AR, on being elected to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame.

MEMBERS NEWS by G4BUE

DJ3KR: Jurgen is QRV as BV3/DJ3KR until 17 June from the National Centre University in Chung-Li, mostly WARC bands. G3IZD: Ivor was QRV from Captiva Island, Florida (IOTA NA-069) in May with his AE4WK call. G3NOH: Jacky and George had a wonderful time at the North American Weekend enjoying the terrific hospitality. Dayton was impressive and we made a few new friends there. G3SWH: Phil and Jim, G3RTE, will be QRV 28/30 June from St Nicholas Island (IOTA EU-094) as F/G3RTE/P (SSB) and F/G3SWH/P (CW), 80-10m with two stations. G4DJX: Sarita and Alan are moving to a new QTH in July but in the meantime are living with Alans parents with temporary antennas! G4MVA: Glynn has decided to drop out of the club as he will shortly be retiring to Wales, and new interests indicate that he will be increasingly inactive in amateur radio. Best wishes for the future and thanks for your past support of FOC. G4PKD: Lorraine and Jack would like to sincerely thank Holger, DK4LX, and Petra, and indeed all members who attended the recent ConDin, for the wonderful hospitality shown to them. Heres to the next time. GM4SID: Sid will be QRV 24/29 July from GMDJIs QTH on Yell Island (IOTA EU012). In the IOTA Contest he will use CW and SSB making it the first SSB Contest he has ever done! KP4/AA5DX: Congratulations to Suzanne and Ron on the birth of a baby boy, Blaize, in April. W1NV: Billie and Carl will be back in the UK in the autumn, but they will not be attending Lords. Please add Carls call to the 1997 Windle sheet as it was inadvertently omitted. Sorry Carl.

1998 WEST COAST DINNER by G4BUE

E-MAIL by OZ1LQH

HALL OF FAME by G4BUE

K1RM: Vin and Sherry had a wonderful time at the DC Dinner and are planning to attend Lords this year after a visit to Ireland. K4LQ: Fred is QRV again from his new QTH only a stones throw from Vic, N4TO; Joe WB4OSN and the rest of the Sebring gang and rejoins the clubs active list. He has a five band quad at 60 feet, slopers for 40 metres, and an inverted vee for 30 and 80 metres. He has taken on editing the Florida Contest Club newsletter which, he says, should ensure a lot of contest activity. K6OU: Bruce was intending to operate from South Carolina at the end of May while visiting his son in Fayeteville, the first time he has operated from the East Coast after 64 years on the air! Congratulations to Bruce on his election as President of the Colorado Chapter of QCWA for the next year. LA3FL: Per was due to leave the Crystal Symphony in the middle of May and after visiting friends in California, was flying home to see how his antennas survived the harsh Norweigan winter. N2DAN: Members will be shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Steve (Dan) on 20 May. N4AR: Bill had new member Mary, GBQV, as a house guest over the Dayton week-end. They counted 48 FOC members at Dayton and know they missed at least one, said the FOC Sunday Breakfast went well and the weather was near perfect. OH2EA: Hans has changed his call, but will retain OH2BDP which he used for 33 years, to use only when particularly nasty pangs of nostalgia hit me). W1HL: Jim has new beams up and running following the collapse of his tower during an ice storm on 7 December. W4/GIHM: Ursula is in England until 30 September (47 Longdown Road, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 4QH) and is buying a mobile home in Welford on Avon, where Ray is buried.

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