Once again it was a busy night in the shack. The QO100 transciever built by Roger, G8NHG and firtled by Mark G4DOT was installed ready for the clubs first transmission to the QO100 geostationary sattelite. After a few speedy updates and unplugging things and plugging them back in (its like turning it off and on again) and it sprang into life. Silence decended over the crowd (it was very busy in the shack) after a shout to keep it down and Mark tentativley replied to a German station calling CQ. Victory and DO3FEH came through 5/9 and we had a brief chat (he was working portable) and received also a 5/9 report.
The club thanks Roger and Mark for their time and effort, particularly Roger for actually building it and making it look like its a manufactured product.
Trevor G4RFM brought in a straight CW key that he got cheaply from eBay that Rod G4ZUP wasted no time in testing and made several QSO with stations on both 30M and 20M including an Italian special event callsign. So that worked great too.
Chris G7IVF had also fixed the alignment issues with the screen so that the Open Ham clock all fits nicely and it a most useful tool.
It was a busy night in the shack with a lot going on.
