Events
This page will always display past and future events we are involving ourselves in.
Pie & Pint Evenings
We meet on the first Wednesday of every month. All P&P’s run from around 7pm until 9pm or later. The usual place for the meeting is - Black Horse Pub - Dry Drayton.
Provisional dates for 2008 are:
June 4th,
July 2nd,
August 6th,
September 3rd,
October 1st,
November 5th,
December 3rd.
Future Events
July 5th to July 6th - VHF NFD 2008. Still to be confirmed if Camb-Hams will enter VHF NFD in 2008.
Past Events
April 26th to May 3rd, 2008 - Trip to Mull, West Scotland. After discussions at Pie and Pints about SOTA, IOTA or VHF stuff we have decided to head to Mull for a weeks activity at the end of April. Mull offers SOTA, IOTA (EU-008) and rare square (IO66 & IO76) VHF opportunities! We have booked 2 cottages in Carsaig next to each other which have 12 beds in between them. Looking at operating on 80m, 40, 20, 6, and 2m. Places are now full - contact Gavin M1BXF for more info…
November 16th, 2007 - CRG AGM, Cambridge. The Annual General Meeting of the CRG was held on Nov 16, 2007 starting at 1930hrs and ran till 2200hrs!
– More details about the AGM on the CRG newspage –
October 20 - 21, 2007 - JOTA, Buntingford. Voi G0BOE, Gerald G0HEM and Gavin M1BXF all took a trip to Buntingford scout hall to activate GB0WDS (Ware and District Scouts) for the JOTA weekend. Scout leaders Derek (an M3 whos call doesn’t come to hand) and Bob helped with putting the antennas up. We ran 2 stations. Station 1 was an HF setup consiting of a Yaesu FT-840, MFJ tuner and a full sized G5RV kindly donated by ML&S (see below) and station 2 was VHF/UHF (with 20m capabilities) running an Icom IC-910H with a 7ele 2m beam plus a Yaesu FT-857 connected to a 6/2/70 vertical. The FT-857 was also QRV on 20m where some datamodes such as RTTY, PSK and SSTV were demonstrated. Various members of Camb-Hams loaned equipment for the day which we and the scouts are most greatful. See the pics here.
October 20 - 21, 2007 - RSGB HF Convention, Wyboston Lakes - Bedford. Rob M1XZG, John M0EAV, Gerald G0HEM, Dave G7DIU and Gavin M1BXF whet along to help Neil G4HUN and the RSGB out at the HFC. A fun time was had by all. We had deep and meaningful conversations with Ian from Icom, sat in on some really good lectures, drank ample coffee, helped ML&S to pack-up and were given a full sized G5RV for our troubles and got ourselves free HFC t-shirts at the end! Well we had been wearing them all weekend so I don’t think they wanted them back. RSGB info here .
June 21 - 23, 2007 - Friedrichshafen, Germany. Read more info in the Friedrichshafen Forum
July 7 - 8, 2007 - RSGB VHF/UHF NFD 2007. Read more info in the RSGB VHF/UHF NFD 2007 forum
November 18, 2006 - CRG AGM - The annual general meeting was held at the Coleridge Community College in Cambridge. Many regulars of the CAM-HAMS attended and some were even elected onto various committees.
September 2, 2006 - The Anchor - GRAND OPENING. We were asked to provide a radio display at The Anchor on it’s grand opening day. The landlord of the pub, also a fellow ham, Robert G7DME, was having a family day for the pubs grand opening. They had a variety of events on for kids and adults and wanted a ham radio display on site for the day. A special events call sign was allocated for the event GB0TAB. The location for the event was at: 63 North St, Burwell, Cambs, CB5 0BA. For some info about the pub (might be outdated). Lat/Lon: N52 17.0780 / E00 19.4346 Grid Square: JO02dg
