ROYAL SIGNALS AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY

• QSL BUREAU MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
• Number 58 -  January 2012 (Vol.2 No.6) 
• by MØOIC - QSL Bureau Manager

RSARS QSL BUREAU
6 GREENLAND CRESCENT
CHILWELL
BEESTON
NOTTINGHAM NG9 5LB

Members operating the 50th Anniversary calls during the month of December 2011 are:

G3SIG activity
(Full details on the G3SIG AWARD SECTION on this website)

As mentioned previously the G3SIG Award is now being coordinated by MØOIC. The situation as at 1st December 2011 is as shown below. You will note that volunteer operators would be appreciated.

G3SIG areas of operation are currently known to be:

December 2011 - G3SIG
January 2012 - GM3SIG
February 2012 - vacant
March 2012 - vacant
April 2012 - GM3SIG
May 2012 - GW3SIG
June 2012 - G3SIG
July 2012 - G3SIG
August 2012 - vacant
September 2012 - GI3SIG
October 2012 - G3SIG
November 2012 - vacant
December 2012 - vacant
I was not overly inundated with volunteers to run G3SIG as the result of my request in our most recent "MERCURY". There are still five months vacant for 2012 so volunteers would still be appreciated. Many thanks to those members who have already volunteered their services, as shown above, for the benefit of our members.

New Year's Eve/Pop-in-Pop-Out net.
Obviously I won't know the final result until the Net Controllers have sobered up and got their logsheets to me but I think that the net sections have gone well. Well they had up until about 1830hrs when Continental QRM knocked out the signal from David MØDKN. Thankfully Pat GW3KJW was worked by the pair from Chilwell and is in the 2E1SIS log at 2029hrs. All will be revealed in the next edition of "MERCURY".

Bureau Activity.
All I can say about the last seven months of 2011 is "WOW!" The number of cards received each month have been at near-record totals since the year 2005. The Bureau wasn't transferred from quill pen and ink on manuscript until March 2005 so I am unable to comment on Bureau activity prior to then. So, if asked "Did members enjoy the 50th Anniversary Activity?", as the Bureau Manager looking in, I must give an immediate, and qualified "Yes!" With 170 days yet to go there are still many Anniversary exchanges being made during nets and I know of a few members who, even though they have already claimed and received their certificates, are continuing. I am aware of one member who, when last heard, has 167 unique RSARS member contacts. No, 'tis not me, but in multi-mode contacts I have when last checked 173 successful QSOs. As these exchanges include quite a number in modes, SSB, CW, PSK31, RTTY and of course JT65-HF my unique score will be somewhat less.

Our VK and ZL members are being grabbed by a growing number of members for Overseas points and our members in Cyprus are being heard, and worked. I found myself 'gladly' helping Noz 5B4AIX/C4DX in working RSARS members. Members were alerted initially by an email from John G4LRG. Linda 2E1SIS and I MØOIC managed to say 'Hello' and Linda continued to talk with Noz as I was frantically telephoning around the needy. I ended up being link-man for Noz as I told him who had been contacted. He would then ask his pile-up (well those who had receivers) to stand-by as he called for RSARS members. As I say. some didn't have receivers but those who did followed the instructions from Noz. Noz does suffer with a high electrical noise level in Cyprus as do Don and Arthur so the weaker signals are difficult for him, but he tries. So with170 days yet to go please don't give up. No magic rig or aerial in Greenland Crescent (Nr 6 that is) just a 10-year old Yaesu Mk5 Field putting out, in my case, 100 watts into a Cobwebb aerial which is about 33 feet above ground, which is not very high above sea level.

And what, you may ask, has this to do with Bureau matters? Quite a lot, says I, for many of these exchanges will result in two cards per QSO being produced and it is those that keep me, and the lass (she likes that) busy on occasions

I am sure that it will have been noted that had I received 20 more cards during December the Bureau total would have been the highest December total since the Bureau was computerised. Long may the trend continue.

May I wish all members and visitors a very Happy New Year 2012 and may you and yours enjoy good health all year and beyond. May all of your Bureau envelopes be heavy ones. (Just watch the thickness and have them correctly stamped when sending?)