A reminder to all club members that the VHF Field Day Contest is this next weekend, The CARC RATS Contest team are always grateful of any help.

2nd July 2019 By Keith Evans Leave a Comment

VHF NFD 2018 (The Big One)

3rd June 2018 By Mike Davies 1 Comment

This is the big contest of the year for CARCRATS. We’ll be looking to defend last year’s win which will need the maximum effort of on all five bands.

We’ll be using the upgraded 70cm system tried in the March contest and will also have a repaired and upgraded 23cm system on the air.

Everyone is welcome, indeed everyone is essential. We’ll be on site from 1500 local time on Friday, July 6th with the contest starting at 1500L on Saturday afternoon.

Please do join us for a fun packed weekend up on the cliff at Swingate.

Reigate ATS and Crawley ARC Win VHF NFD

3rd August 2017 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

VHF NFD 2017 G5LK/P — Antennas at Sunset

A fantastic effort by the combined team from our two local clubs has been rewarded by winning the Open Section of the RSGB premier annual VHF contest. The team operated on five bands (6m, 4m, 2m, 70cm and 23cm) with the best four scores counting towards the overall result. The final score is 3862 for RATS/CARC with Colchester in 2nd place on 3839, a very close run thing.

The team are planning on being QRV in the 2m Trophy contest on 2nd/3rd September with a location to be confirmed. Why not come along and see what’s involved, get your hands dirty and work some DX.

73 Mike, G0KAD

Crawley ARC and Reigate ATS win the RSGB May 2m Contest

12th June 2017 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

A great effort by the team resulted in a much increased score and 1st place in the May RSGB 2m contest. 461 valid QSOs were made in 24hours at an average distance of over 350km. The best DX was into Bulgaria at over 2000km. If you want to join the fun come along to VHF NFD on 1/2 July when we will be using our winning site near Dover. Speak to Mike, G0KAD ot Alex, M1YAP for more details.

http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin//vhfresults.pl?Contest=144MHz%20May%20Contest&year=2017

Introduction to Contesting

14th May 2017 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

Hello all

The first of a short series of Skype voice conferences will be hosted by Roger G3LDI – the subject will be an ‘Introduction to Contesting’

Roger is a member of the Norfolk Amateur Radio Club, who have very successful procedures for introducing and encouraging new contesters amongst their members.

This voice conference is aimed at anyone who is interested in contesting (either HF or VHF) but is uncertain about how to get started, or what is involved. (Obviously you are reading this on a contesting reflector, so you are probably not a beginner, so please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested.)

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Thursday 18th May 2017

8pm clocktime for about 40 minutes – with your questions throughout or at the end.

Maximum 10 participants

Please e-mail g3ldi…at...yahoo.co.uk to register