CUWS was present at the Freshers’ Fair as usual and added another 60 or so names to the sympa email system for soc-cuws-interested. Half a dozen have visited the shack and borrowed an exam book. One of them has already passed the Foundation exam.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The club station was used in CQWW SSB at the end of October with our special contest callsign M4A. Based on claimed scores we won the Multi-Single High Power section for the UK with 3.64M points but M6N was close behind us so adjudication could put us into 2^nd place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks are due to Dr Colin Smithers G4CWH for an excellent technical talk at Caius College on the Blighter low power radar system.

Led by John Jessop M9YOM a group of students have taken on the task of building some homebrew radio equipment. Their current goal is to design and construct a superhet HF (80m) receiver. The group are still in the design stage but hoping to send off for some components and PCBs in the Lent term.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very sadly our Life Member Dr David Holburn G3XZP became a Silent Key towards the end of term and a number of members attended his funeral at Caius College Chapel in December. His obituary is at https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/david-holburn-1953-2025

December was YOTA month and the special callsign GB25YOTA was used by three of our members Nikolas M0IPY, Henry M0KUQ and Adam M0RZO who made about 850 QSOs between them. Later in the month the callsign was used from the shack by three local schoolchildren with Foundation licences.