The Essex Ham Monday Night Net for 27 April 2015 started at 8:00pm local time on GB3DA, the 2m repeater located at Danbury, near Chelmsford.
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| Internet Feed: Not in range of GB3DA? Several Internet feeds are available, including: Monday Night Net uStream (Thanks to Nick 2E0DVX) – There’s also Essex Ham’s Audio Feed (In BETA). On a Smartphone, try SouthEastRadio on Zello |
Net Attendees
Here’s the attendance list for this week’s net:
- Pete M0PSX, Chelmsford (in the chair)
- Chris M6KDG, Witham
- Brian M6UHN, Chelmsford
- James 2E1GUA, Chelmsford
- Mitchell 2E0EMO, Loughton
- Nick 2E0DVX, Westcliff
- Matt M6MVW, Hockley
- Gordon M6IRX, Witham
- Keith M0KNG, Billericay
- Lee M6PXT, Maldon
- Clive M0GHH, Chelmsford
- Wayne M6WCE, Harold Hill
- John G3ZJZ, Hockley
- Gordon 2E0ELI, Grays
- Nick M0NIB, Brentwood
- Dorothy 2E0NCE, Basildon
We closed at 10:50, followed by a brief test on 2m simplex
Topics for the evening, as follows:
- Marriage (reasons for, and pagan ceremonies)
- IMD at Sandford Mill
- Last week’s Skills Night
- Anyone got any experience of HyEndFed antennas (Jakub 2E0FTX in the chatroom)
- Nepal earthquake – keep 14.205MHz free for emergency comms
- Cold War bunkers
- Liberating spiders from HF traps
- Getting started with Echolink
- Prepping
Handy Links
- Amateur Radio Nepal Earthquake – Southgate ARS
- UK Preppers Forum (Thanks to Brian M6UHN)
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Essex Ham would like to thank the Essex Repeater Group for allowing us to use the GB3DA repeater for our weekly net. This repeater, together with GB3ER, GB3DB and GB7ZP are managed by volunteers. If you wish to support the repeaters, you can make a donation online, or become a member, at 