ROARS Nets

ROARS Net Awards 2023: Details from ROARS Chairman Peter Gavin: 31st March 2023

“It is with pleasure that I am able to announce the members who have attended the Thursday Net for 20 or more times this year from April 2022 to March 2023.

Mike M6MPC is obviously top of the list as our net controller. Many thanks for your efforts during the year Mike it is very much appreciated by all of us.

Top of the participants this year and the winner is Tim Strickland G4EOA with 42

Tim G4EOA                              42

Robin G3OGP                          38

Ken Lax GW3VVL                     34

Peter M0URL                           30

Tiel PA3KGR                             29

Ian G4JKD                                  21

Mike G0CHV                            21

Well done to you all,” a sterling effort”.

Thanks to everyone who joined the Nets during the year.

Very 73

Peter

 

Main ROARS Net on Thursdays

This takes place every Thursday night at 19.00 local on 3507kHz or 7017 Khz and is run by our Web Meister Mike Carter M6MPC. Each person that calls in will be given a QRY number. The net starts with Tintwhistle weather followed by a passage from the Maritime Union Magazine in Dutch and English plus a block of mixed 5-digit code groups. Then Mike sets the members three questions appertaining to our time at sea. Each member is then called in turn to give their weather, answers to the questions and any other pertinent information. If conditions on 3507kHz/7017Khz for the weekly Thursday 19.00 net are very poor such as long skip where no UK stations are readable then Mike M6MPC will revert to Top Band 1827kHz and call there. Check on WhatsApp Group before sked for QRG changes

ROARS Rag Chew Sked on Tuesdays

The following sked is to encourage more members to go on the air for a leisurely CW chat as we used to do during a slack watch at sea. This will provide an on-air meeting place and time to connect with colleagues/friends. Please note that this is not really a Net as there will be no Net Controller. As a matter of courtesy, QSOs should proceed at the speed of the slower operator. Once a QSO is established please QSY Up or down to make room for others to make a call.

SKED DETAIL Tuesdays 1000 – 1100 Local time. Call Freqs: 3538/3565 kHz or 7017 kHz. Call format: CQ ROA DE MYCALL. Exchange: RST + Op Name + QSY +/- kHz. Call Speed: What you are comfortable with. (Speed of slower Operator) Topics: Your choice of Topic. So, Lads roll up your sleeves, dust down those keys and light up the airwaves with your CW QSOs!

Peter/M0URL

Mike/M6MPC

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Net report for Thursday 18th May from Mike Carter

Good conditions on tonight’s Net again. Most signals over 599!
 
On tonight’s Net were the following :-
 
G0ELZ         Bill fm Liverpool
 
G4EOA        Tim fm Hastings
 
PA2PCH      Ad fm Apeldoorn
 
G0CHV       Mike fm Morecambe
 
G4KJD        Ian fm Ashill somerset
 
MW0JWW   John fm Fishguard
 
GW3VVL     Ken fm Crew Green Wales
 
EI3ER         Tom fm Galway
 
Sent tintwistle WX
Sent QTC fm Union Mag “Telegraph” in Dutch, then another in English diff subject
Sent Navigational Warning
Sent some mixed code
Sent a joke from over 70’s book
3 questions:-
Q1 – You are QTO VCS bnd ZSD where from, where to?   (Halifax to Durban)
Q2 – Ref radars: what device/part affected the heading line?  (Heading line micro or reed switch)
Q3 – What South American Country is 9YL off?    (Venezuela)
Some good answers tonight, but geography lacking a bit though.

Net report for Thursday 11th May from Mike Carter

Good conditions again tonight with strong signals all round apart from John in Fishguard.
 
On tonight’s Net were the following :-
 
GW3VVL         Ken fm Crew Green Wales
 
G4EOA           Tim fm Hastings
 
G3OGP           Robin fm Billingshurst Sussex
 
M0URL           Peter fm Yateley Hants
 
PA3KGR        Tiel fm Pijnacker/Rotterdam
 
MW0JWW      John fm Fishguard
 

G0CHV       Mike fm Morecambe

 
Sent Tintwistle WX
Sent QTC fm Union Mag “Telegraph” in Dutch, then another in English diff subject
Sent Navigational Warning
Sent some mixed code
Sent a Joke
3 Questions :-
Q1 – you are QTO DAO bnd 9HD where from, where to?    (Kiel to Malta)
Q2 – Water ingress through propeller seal, dry dock  or otherwise?   (Usually alongside, filling forward bilges to raise the stern out of the water, to repack the stern gland/seal)
Q3 – What flag of convenience also had a Canal?                 (Panama)
 
Some good answers tonight. Q2 not an easy one to answer though.

Net report for Thursday 4th May from Mike Carter

Conditions not as good as last week but signals still quite high, but only 5 on the Net.
 
On tonight’s Net were the following :-
 
G4KJD           Ian fm Ashill somerset
 
G4EOA         Tim fm Hastings
 
G3OGP         Robin fm Billingshurst Sussex
 
GW3VVL      Ken fm Crew green Wales
 
M0URL         Peter fm Yateley Hants
 
Sent Tintwistle W
Sent QTC fm Union Mag “Telegraph”
Sent Navigational Warning
Sent some mixed code
Sent a simple over 70’s Joke
3 Questions :-
Q1 – You are QTO YVL bnd 9YL where from, where to?   (Puerto Cabello Venezuela bnd Trinidad)
Q2 – What was the Oil Refinery’s QTH in PJC called?           (Emmastad)/(Emastaad)
Q3 – Gotharb/Greenland and Torshavn/Faeroes were protectorates of what country?       (Denmark)
 
No one got Q1 right. This station asleep a lot of the time (YVL)
No one got Emastaad either. Perhaps am biased being ex Shell.