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.