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HamInfoBar: 1st Anniversary

Today (Aug 10th) HamInfoBar celebrates its first anniversary. Thanks for all the emails and messages of support, they are a real encouragement! They can also prove to sow seeds for ideas which I have then been able to develop for the toolbar, so keep them coming.

In its first year, HamInfoBar has been installed in 95 countries worldwide, and mentioned on various ham websites, ham magazines, and several ham broadcasts (including the WIA news). It has received a great deal of positive feedback, with users finding it an invaluable tool in the hobby.

As a resource for ham radio, I intend to keep updating and expanding the toolbar so it maintains its value to all you hams.

This year has been an enjoyable learning curve for me - thanks once again for your continued support and encouragement!

John G0DPC

http://www.haminfobar.co.uk

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Shop Blind

Many customers first view of our store when they visit is the 20m quadrant blind which extends across most of the front building in Main Road, Hockley.

This blind succumbed to the very high winds we experienced in Spring this year. Most of it was blown around Hockley.

We had great difficulty in finding a company who could replace this monster blind.

Eventually a Southend Company agreed to take the job on.

We took the opportunity to update the printed information to publicise our suppliers like KENWOOD, ICOM, YAESU, SONY & PANASONIC and our own website www.wsplc.com

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W-8681 Stock

Unfortunately we have run out of W-8681 weather stations for the time being.

We hope to have more stock in around mid August, so if you still haven’t gotten around to buying one, don’t worry.

- Dave.

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Mark & Matt Francis - Charity Run

I posted not long ago about a charity run that Mark and Matt were both taking part in. We are pleased to say that they both finished, and had a lot of fun doing so.

Mark:
“It was a nice sunny day, and London was great. I was aiming for less than an hour, and I finished in 38 minutes, so that was nice. I was being tormented by Matt afterwards, as he finished in 18 minutes, he joked that he could have gone around twice and still beaten me.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to take part, as it was fun to run and support a worthy cause.”

As Mark said, you can still donate up until the 7th of September, so take a peek at their official sponsorship web page.

http://www.runformooresponsorme.org/markmattfrancis

- Dave.

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Repeater Gateway

As from last Thursday, our repeater (GB7SS) has been running online, enabling DSTAR radios to communicate digitally with other repeaters via the internet.

Unfortunately I am not a licensed amateur, so I can’t explain much about the radio side of things, but anyone that is registered with another gateway already can use ours. If you are not registered elsewhere and would like to register with us, please send me an email with your call sign and your full name:

dave.britton@wsplc.com

DVDongle users can also access our gateway via the list of repeaters displayed in the client software.

I would also like to thank the UKIT team, and Paul - G1DVA in particular, for their huge help in setting everything up.

- Dave.

*Update*

I have had some emails over the weekend about registering on our gateway, if you want to be registered as quickly as possible, please put “registration” as the email subject. If you do not, it may take me a while to get round to registering you, as your email will end up mixed in with all other emails I receive.

Thanks, Dave.

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Friedrichshafen

In June 2008 the W&S truck once again set off for the biggest Radio Show in Europe at Friedrichshafen in Southern Germany.

Visitors attend from all over Europe and from as far as Russia, Japan and the USA.

Mark, Steve & Jeff set up our biggest ever display and were once again assisted by Bob Kent of Kent Morse Keys and his stepson (and our translator) Dominic. Graham Somerville again took part of our stand to display his bhi products.

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HamInfoBar: Links to over 200 UK Ham radio clubs added!

Links to over 200 UK ham radio clubs have been added to the UK ham radio websites section.

HIB Users: if your club has a website and is not listed please email me and I will happily add yours!

http://www.haminfobar.co.uk

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Yaesu VX-8 Handheld

This handheld was announced and displayed at Dayton Hamvention on 16th May 2008. Whilst the Japanese were tight lipped about all its features, word has it that it has a TNC inside and can provide APRS with the optional GPS microphone. It also has a Blue Tooth option.

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College Industry Day

“On Friday 6th June 2008, Waters & Stanton once again supported our local Colleges Industry Day.

Greensward College in Hockley invite local businesses to take part in a day of practical activity at the College for the benefit of older students.

Waters and Stanton staff members take over a science laboratory to tell students a little about the company and then arrange a simple construction project for them to undertake. This year they assembled a simple fuse-testing project which they could take away for future use.

Once again Mike Wheaton (Zipy) and Bernard Harris ran the class for the day and then were very pleased to receive diplomas from the Principle, Debbie Godwin. She said that our work with the students is very valuable and much appreciated.”

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Open Day Charity Raffle

On our recent open day we held a raffle amongst everyone in attendance, in aid of Littlehavens Childrens Hospice.

We managed to raise £330.00 for the charity, so hopefully that will help them. Thanks to everyone that took part in the open day, and in the raffle, we had a great time. It won’t be long and we’ll be holding our next open day, so don’t worry if you missed out, there’s always next time.

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