Sunday 14th August 2016 Public Gates opening time : 10:00am LECTURES inside Cobham Sports and Social Club These are taking place throughout the day BENT ELEMENTS WITH YAGIS, (Dayton 2016) By Justin Johnson G0KSC from InovAntennas RSGB AMATEUR RADIO SURVEY RESULTS FOLLOWED BY Q & A SESSION By Steve Hartley G0FUW DIRECTOR & CHAIRMAN OF THE RSGB BOARD HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON TALK New Modulation Modes in HAB (High Altitude Ballooning) By Phil Crump M0DNY from UK High Altitude Society TALK / DEMO WITH A SPECTRUM ANALYSER, HOW TO USE A NOISE SOURCE AS A TRACKING GENERATOR By Kevin Avery G3AAF from Rf Designs OTHER ACTIVITIES GUIDED TOURS of FRARS EME Dish capability from 10am at FRARS HQ which you pass on the way in Along with a Talk entitled EME operation and system requirements in the 21st century including a Backyard EME Demo By FRARS John G0API, Julian G3YGF and Carl G6NLC HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON LAUNCH LoRa-mode transmitter on a 100g hwoyee 'pico' balloon Followed by Live Tracking of its Flightpath on habhub.org shown on a large screen By Phil Crump M0DNY from UK High Altitude Society REMOTE STATION OPERATION DEMO SHOWN ON LARGE SCREEN Geoff DL/ G8OFQ controlling his shack in Hamburg via the Internet VIDEO PRESENTATIONS AT FRARS HQ Throughout the day of FRARS in action CW CONTEST DEMO AT FRARS HQ Romeo YO4RDW using G4R our contest call sign taking part in WAE Contest (Worked All Europe DX Contest) Demo of N1MM Logging programme Demo of CW Skimmer LIVE CONTEST STATION AT FRARS HQ G4RFR is operated by FRARS members is taking part in 70 MHz Cumulative Contest between 14:00 and 16:00Hrs UTC (15:00 to 17:00 BST) JUNK SALE TABLES AT FRARS HQ INSIDE & OUTSIDE RADIO COMPUTING & ELECTRONICS TRADERS LARGE CAR BOOT SALE PARKING Free Car Parking next to the event site Disabled parking On site, for blue badge holders only ENTRANCE FEES (still unchanged since 2007) Adults £3.50 Under 14's free Public Gates opening time : 10:00am DIRECTIONS GPS nav: BH21 1RJ Talk-In on 145.550MHz FM BOOKINGS or FURTHER ENQUIRIES email FRARS HAMFEST manager hamfest@frars.org.uk Hamfest Telephone: 07743 475018