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Volume XL1 THE SHORT WAVE MAGAZI NE 379

September 28, G40SB will talk about home-brew gear. The intermediate Wednesdays are occupied with RAE/CW classes. Ali are at the City Engineers Club, Central Depot, Waterside South, Lincoln.

The Maltby gang have just completed their first year of activities, with a great deal of success to look back on-and they mean to go on the same way! Find them on any Friday evening at the Methodist Church Hall, Blythe Road, Maltby.

September 2 and 23 are the dates for Medway meetings, and on the other Fridays there will activity from the club station, at the Number One Hall, St. Luke’s Church, King William Road, Gillingham.

On September 6 there is a junk sale and on 20th a two-metre fox hunt starting at 7.30 p.m. for members of the Mid-Warwickshire club, at 61 Emscote Road, Warwick.

On Wednesday evenings at the “Bradshaw Tavern’\ Bradshaw, Halifax, you can find the Northern Heights club gatherings. There are buses from Halifax passing the door, and we understand the Tavern is at Grid Ref 303 083.

Every Thursday evening is the form at North Wakefield, where the venue is the Working Men’s Club, Carr Gate. Once monthly at least they have a formal meeting with talk, films, or whatever, the other evenings being of a morę social naturę.

Up now to Perth, where the locals have their Hq at the Perth City Sports and Social Club, Leonards Street, Perth, where they are to be found on Tuesday evenings.

A new venue is noted by the Hon. Sec. at Plymouth; they have moved to Penlee Secondary School, Somerset Place, Stoke, Plymouth, where on September 5 they have a talk on microwaves by G3VVB and a junk sale on 19th.

We head now to Pontefract where the meetings are held at Carleton Community Centre, Carleton, Pontefract, on Thursday evenings. September 1 was still open at the time they wrote, but on September 8 they have a talk on repeaters by G4EZV.

The group known as QTl Tape Magazine up till now is changing its name to QTI Talking Newspaper; they are now putting out their service of free recorded readings from amateur radio magazines to over 100 blind amateurs and SWLs world-wide, and new members are always welcome. Contact the Hon. Sec. for details at the address in the Panel.

At Reigate the club members head for the Constitutional and Conservative Centre, Warwick Road, Redhill, where they have the Upstairs Meeting Room booked on the third Tuesday of each month.

Another new club is up for reporting now; this is RAFARS Lancashire Area, and not surprisingly they have Hq at the R.A.F. Association club in Preston, and they will be there again on September 12.

The St. Neots crowd foregather on alternate Mondays at the “Horseshoe Inn’*, Offord D’arcy, near Huntingdon, and membership is open to all with an interest in amateur radio and electronics. Morę details on the current programme from the Hon. Sec. -see Panel.

The first session at the Shefford Hq after the summer recess is on September 1, whcn they elear up the important details for the SSB NFD; from then on it is every Thursday evening at the Church Hall, Shefford.

Deadlines for “Clubs” for the next three months-

October issue—August 26th November issue-September 30th December issue-October 28th January issue-November 25th

Please be surę to notę these dates!

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Geoff PoUitt, G4NPQ, won the G4INY Memoriał Trophy with his home-brew transceiver, at the recent York A.R.S. home-brew night.

photo: G4EMA

Skelmersdale are based on the Dunlop’s Sports and Social club, White Moss Road, where they get together on Thursday evenings.

The Southampton club recently had their AGM, and elected some new officers, which reflect in our Secretaries Panel. The gang meet every Wednesday evening at Bittern Park School, Bittern, Southampton, and are eagerly awaiting the outeome of the committee’s deliberations on the programme no doubt.

Now Southdown, and this means the Chaseley Home for Disabled Ex-Servicemen, Southcliff, Eastbourne, on the first Monday of each month. This gives us September 5, bul we don’t have details of the programme for that evening, even though we know October’s!

September 8 is the Southgate datę, for a talk on QRP operating by members of the G-QRP Club; the venue is St. Thomas’ Church Hall, Prince George Avenue, Oakwood, London N.14.

Spalding have a visit from Mikę Bowthorpe from the Peterborough Tandy storę on September 9; the place for this-and all other meetings-is Maples Room, White Hart Hotel, Market Place, Spalding.

At Stevenage the venue these days is TS Andromeda, Fairlands Valley Park, Shephall View, Stevenage. On September 6, there is a talk by G4MEO on “Aluminium for Aerials and How to Use lt“; then they have a beginners evening at Fairlands Community Centre on September 8, returning to Hq on September 20 for a subject to be confirmed.

Stockton is a new club to these columns, although it seems to have been running for a while; they are to be found in the Oxbridge Hotel in Stockton-on-Tees every Monday evening. We understand that they are starting an RAE class on September 5.

The Stourbridge group are to be found at “The Garibaldi” in Cross Street on first and third Mondays. September 5 is an informal and will be used to settle the last details of the club entry in the Stourbridge Carnival on lOth. The main meeting is on September 19 and will feature a talk on matching circuits and SWRs by Dave Yates, G3PGQ.

To Surrey now; they are based at TS Terra Nova, 34 The Waldrons, South Croydon, on first and third Mondays. September 5 is a surplus equipment sale, and on 19th they have a book sale, followed by the club station on the air and some Morse practice.

Still ploughing down the pile we come next to Swale, who have their Hq in Nina’s Restaurant, 43 High Street,