About Our Club

The Huntingdonshire Amateur Radio Society (HARS) was formed in the mid 1980s and amalgamated with the local repeater group for GB3OV meeting in local pubs and later in 1988 at the Medway Centre in Huntingdon. For 4 years up until 2015 we met at Hemingford Abbots Golf Club and now we meet in Buckden Village Hall.

Newcomers will find a warm, friendly and informal atmosphere. Currently HARS have about fifty members, including ladies, with wide interests in amateur radio including an active CW training and appreciation group.

Meetings (for directions please see Contact page)

Next Meeting = Thu 26-Oct-2017 = "GB3OV Repeater Talk" by Alan Hawkins M0FDA

Events (for details please see Events page)

Help Wanted - Lift to meetings...

Peter (2E1CUK) and Wayne are looking for help from any HARs members who are able to give them a lift to club meetings.
They pass on their thanks to David (G7DIU) who for quite some time has provided them with a lift, but is no longer able to.

News

Survey to find the extent of VDSL Broadband Interference

The RSGB’s EMC Committee has for three years been investigating the problems of interference (RFI) from VDSL broadband on the HF amateur bands and lobbying for action to reduce the problem. We have a lot of historical data, but both Ofcom and Openreach contend that 150 reports from 50,000 amateurs are not indicative of a major problem when there are 9.5 million VDSL installations deployed. The RSGB EMCC has set up a survey to collect current signal levels at the frequencies of VDSL band transitions (these indicate the presence and strength of interference). It is very simple to do you just tune your receiver (set to AM or SSB 3kHz bandwidth) to each frequency requested note the S meter reading on the survey form. Full instructions are included in the survey.

http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2017/08/31/survey-to-find-the-extent-of-vdsl-broadband-interference/

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RSGB_VDSL_survey
NEW: RSGB VDSL Survey has been extended. Please follow the link below.

http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2017/09/29/vdsl-interference-survey-extended
TX Factor - Episode 18 (TXF018) = link here =>  https://youtu.be/DB_Dtgc-T4w

Nets

  • There is a daily net hosted by Dave, G7DIU, on GB3OV at 10.00am (10.30am on Sunday to allow for local RSGB News broadcast at 10.00am). All are welcome to join in
  • Every Tuesday, David G8BKG hosts a net on 70.400 MHz at 20.00 (8pm) local for a 'general rag chew'. If you have a 4 mtr rig you will be most welcome to join in
  • There is also a net on 145.350MHz FM at 8pm on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday of the month run by Gerald G8AKL. If you can hear us then please join in
  • An informal Sunday morning net often runs on 145.350MHz starting at noon, all are welcome
  • The Wednesday Wafflers Net starts at 19.15 to 19.30 hours (local) on 3.750 MHz +/- QRM on SSB. Net controller is Dave M0DFW.
  • Every Tuesday, David (M0VTG) hosts a Tuesday Tech Talk Net on GB3OV at 19.00 (7PM local). This net is for technical matters only, so if you have a question then bring it to the net and you may get some answers.

Repeater

• GB3OV
• 70cm (RB05)
• TX Frequency 433.125MHz
• Rx Frequency 434.725MHz
• CTCSS = 94.8Hz
• Locator = IO92VG

Morse/CW

  • Peter (G4LHI) runs the morse training on club nights, all ability levels are welcome
  • If you are keen to learn CW, as a beginner, or to become more proficient with hands on practice, then please join the nets run by Peter on 144.7625MHz FM on Mondays & Wednesdays
  • Mondays at 7.30pm to 2100+ , now reverting back to the old format of FM net (144.765MHz),  with text sent using CW.
  • Tuesdays at 7.30PM Peter runs a net in CW mode only. This will focus on advice on format and procedure, with practice CW QSOs between members.

For any feedback, comments or suggestions about the website, or to have something added to the "For Sale" or "Wanted" web pages...

...please email "hars.webmaster@ns32000.com". If you would put "[HARS]" as part of the subject field this will help filter the message and prevent it being mistaken for spam.