Weekly Report

The International Fellowship for
Rotarians of Amateur Radio
(R.O.A.R.)

Propagation quite good. K=1 A=3 Flux=76

0800z - 0900z Europe - Anzo Net on 14,293 Long Path

0818z - EA/G4HMG/p John from Los Madrilles up to 5/9 at times

0828z - PA0SDZ Les from Zwolle 3/3 here but John got him alright.

0833z - G0JWE Don from Derby 1/1 here

0835z - GW4KVJ John from S.Wales 1/1 here

0839z - VK4ZD Bill from Gatton 4/5 up to 5/7 by 0855z.

0845z - OH6SM Martti from Lapua 5/9+

0913z - Net ended. A very good net though not munch short skip.

EA/G4HMG John is enjoying a very good site at Los Madrilles with splendid facilities.

He and Diana will be remaining there for about 3 weeks.

They had visited David EA5ALK and Valerie. Valerie is recovering well from a hip op.

OH6SM Martti enjoying a relatively mild minus 9c. They had minus 31.7c this week !

Bill VK4ZD had some rain storms in Queensland. They have a Rotary Exchange
Student Joha Luna from Ecuador. Bill was also looking forward to a return visit from

Tiina from Martti's area who had been an exchange student with Bill and Diane

in Kalgoorlie several years ago.
Very well done Bill and Diane !

0900z - 1000z UK 80-metre net on 3,693

G4FTA Tony in charge from Oxford

Twelve on the net in fair conditions.

1230z - 1330z International Net on 14,293

1230z - W1QUO Jim from Leominster MA 5/9

1230z - EA/G4HMG John from Los Madrilles 4/5 here

1230z - G8LES Mike from Alton 4/5

1234z - YO9BC Coco from Ploeste 5/9+

1237z - PA2X Cees from Bussum 2/3 here, got 5/9 from Jim.

1249z - VO1NP Nate from St.John's NF 1/1 here

1249z - W0TBC Joe from Stillwater MN 1/1 here

1249z - G0JWE Don from Derby 1/1 here

1252z - OH6SM Martti from Lapua 5/9

1252z - GW4KVJ John from S.Wales 2/1 here

1258z - CT/AD6XX Laszlo from Lagos 4/5

1305z - SM4CSF Nils from Falun 1/1 today, Jim got him well.

1308z - EA7GSU Pertti from Genalguacil 5/7 - 3/4 in qsb.

1318z - Net ended. - Difficult today with noise and qrm and varying signals.

Jim reported weather cold wet and unpleasant.

Laszlo findiung his treatment "rather unpleasant" but he is making steady progress.

Coco reported lovely weather. +17c and blue skies

Pertti beat that with +18c.

1900z - 2000z UK evening 80-metre net on 3,693

I missed this one. Many thanks to Brian G3LUW for the following report.

Hello Bill, Another very noisy net. I ran it - there were 7 members in total. (G0JWE) Don's club changed venue last week,
and the business concerned went into liquidation soon afterwards. He reports that his club is 'homeless' at present.
73 Brian

Messages Received.

Dear Bill,

For the next three Sunday mornings I have to pick up a 92-year old Church member because the person who does this normally,
is away in Spain (where the rain falls always in the plain judging by the report of G4HMG last Sunday).

This puts extra pressure on my already tight schedule on Sunday mornings and therefore I shall skip ROAR for those three Sundays.
Sorry about that but I hope you understand. 73's Coos VE2GTI

From ROAR Secretary Noel VK1IWT

Hello Executive Committee plus others:
The 2007-08 issue of The Directory is almost ready to go to the printers. It lacks one column and revisions

to the ROAR Schedule. If any of the listed nets are inactive or if there are new nets up and running we need

to add or remove accordingly.
I also need the committee's go ahead with the corrections to the database. Many of you have the list of those

who have made no contribution since the last millennium.

The AGM at Chicago told us what to do about those. Unfortunately we will lose one Regional Vice
Chair and some long time net workers.
The corrections have been made for RIBI, Japan and USA. Still needing attention are ANZO, Canada and a few Rest of World.
I will adhere to the ruling at the Chicago AGM unless told otherwise.
After the database is up to date I will e-mail to everyone who wants it as a Word Excel file.
I am so sorry that I have such a local noise problem that I can not
hear much when I tune up on the nets (Euro - Anzo).
73 YIR Noel
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