ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MADARS NEWSLETTER</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <STYLE type=text/css> <!-- .text { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px} a:link { color: #CC0000; text-decoration: underline} a:visited { color: #CC0000; text-decoration: underline} a:hover { color: #CC0000; text-decoration: underline} li.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm} --> </STYLE> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16437"></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#cccccc text=#000000> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width=800 bgColor=#cc0000 align=center> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=#ffffff> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" bgColor=#ffffff align=center height=80> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=#ffff00 width=441> <DIV align=center> <IMG border=0 src="http://www.maltbyradio.org.uk/images/madars%20copy.jpg" width=218 height=120></DIV></TD> <TD bgColor=#ffff00 width=357 align="center"> <img border="0" src="http://maltbyradio.org.uk/images/MADARS706small%20copy.jpg" width="355" height="152" align="right" hspace="0"></TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=800 align=center height=27> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=#000000 width="33%"> <DIV align=center><B><FONT color=#ffffff face="Arial Narrow">Issue 5</FONT></B></DIV></TD> <TD bgColor=#000000 width="34%"> <P align=center><b><font color="#FFFF00" face="Arial"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maltbyradio.org.uk"> <font color="#FFFF00">www.maltbyradio.org.uk</font></a></font></b></P></TD> <TD bgColor=#000000 width="33%"> <P align=center><b><font face="Arial Narrow" color="#FFFFFF">January 16th 2012</font></b></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <div align="center"> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=801 bgColor=#cc0000> <TBODY> <TR bgColor=#ffffff> <TD bgColor=#FFFF99 vAlign=top width="65%"> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table2" bgcolor="#808000" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font color="#00FF00">&nbsp;</font><b><font face="Arial Black" color="#FFFFFF">BUILDATHON</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">Towards the back end of last year Peter offered to organise a &quot;Buildathon&quot;, which is building from scratch a piece of amateur radio gear. At the time 10 people expressed interest, but we have some new members and others may have changed their minds. Also the dates have been changed. So, details are now as follows.&nbsp;</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">PROJECT - &nbsp;to build a Z-Match ATU for up to 10 watts.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">COMPONENTS - Provided. You should provide your own soldering iron/solder/tools. If this is a problem please advise.&nbsp;</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">DATES -&nbsp; to be built over 2 consecutive meetings, &nbsp;Wed 29th Feb &amp; 7th March</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">PRICE - Aiming for £12-£15 depending on component sources.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><i><b><font face="Arial">PLEASE ADVISE &nbsp;==== BY RETURN ==== WHETHER OR NOT YOU WISH TO TAKE PART IN THIS PROJECT EVEN IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 10.</font></b></i></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">&nbsp;In fairness to Pete, who is organising all this, If I don&#39;t get an answer by this Wednesday&#39;s meeting then I shall assume you&#39;re not interested.</font></p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table7" bgcolor="#808000" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font face="Arial Black" color="#FFFFFF">PROGRAMME NOTES</font></td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">Barry&#39;s talk scheduled for last week has now been listed for next week, 25th January. In the meantime we&#39;re trying to settle a date with Ian M1DER for a talk about and demonstration of DSTAR.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Arial">Sometime between now and the Buildathon we need to make sure the aerials are installed. Otherwise there&#39;ll be no way of testing the ATUs.</font></p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table6" bgcolor="#808000" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial Black">Oops</font></td> </tr> </table> <P><font face="Arial">Not the best of starts to our new year in our new home when on week two we were locked out. Apologies once more to those who attended, and I can now confirm that we have contact details for alternative keyholders.</font></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <table border="1" width="100%" id="table1"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFF00"> <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial"> <a target="_blank" href="newsletter%204.html">To view previous issue of newsletter click here</a></font></b></td> </tr> </table> </TD> <TD bgColor=#808000 vAlign=top height="40%" width="35%"> <P align=center> </P> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table3" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#FFFF99"> <tr> <td><b><font face="Arial Black" color="#808000">COMMUNICATION</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoPlainText"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial">When I send out emails asking for interest or bookings for an event I don&#39;t think it&#39;s expecting too much to get a reply without having to follow it up with more and more reminders.&nbsp;</font></b></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF">Think about it. If I don&#39;t get an answer I don&#39;t know whether it&#39;s because you&#39;re not interested or because you didn&#39;t receive the message in the first place - we all know the internet isn&#39;t perfect.&nbsp;</font></b></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF">I try to organise things for members&#39; benefit and quite frankly it&#39;s getting a bit tedious having to chase some of you up time and time again. &nbsp;</font></b></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF">When you receive a message or newsletter asking for your availability for or interest in an event will you PLEASE reply either yes or no. Not only is this a minimum courtesy it lets me know you&#39;ve got the message and are therefore aware of the event. I don&#39;t think it&#39;s too much to ask..</font></b></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><b><font face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF">Sorry to include this in something sent to the innocent, but this way the &quot;offenders&quot; stay anonymous - for now!</font></b></p> <p>&nbsp;</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </div> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=600 bgColor=#ffffff align=center> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=#cccccc width="40%"> <DIV align=center> <FONT size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR><BR>Copyright © 2011/2012 Maltby &amp; District Amateur Radio Society</FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </BODY></HTML>