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CATS SOCIAL EVENTS |
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In addition to our
regular meetings, CATS also organises trips and social events throughout the
year.
Click here
for details of New Year dinner, January 12th 2009.
Recent social events
have included evenings out to local restaurants. In the past we have made trips
to the Continent sometimes just for the evening. Visits to Bletchley Park to see
the war time radio exhibits and associated equipment including the Enigma
machine. A more recent trip to Cornwall included a visit to the Poldhu club on
the site of the original Marconi experimental transmitter site. Some pictures
are shown here from these trips : -
Bletchley Park
Visit
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Photos show, from
left:
- Bletchley House
- WWII HRO receivers
- Rotors from a
German Enigma coding machine
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British
Vintage Wireless Museum Visit
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Photos taken during
the CATS visit to this museum in May 2007. From left:
- Various CATS
members avidly waiting for the tour of the museum to begin
- The founder of the
museum, Gerry Wells, explaining the exhibits, complete with vintage BBC
microphone
- Replica of pre-war
Wireless and battery-charging shop
- Television
standards converter, used to generate 405 line pictures for viewing on
vintage TV sets
- Equipment used for
manufacture and repair of obsolete valve types
- Display of vintage
transformers
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CATS Annual Dinner
2008
| The January 2008
dinner was held at the Good Companions in Sanderstead, Surrey |
CATS
Barbecue 2007
| First picture shows last
year's chef, Ian, M3IGP |
CATS
Barbecue 2008
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The 2008 BBQ was on
11th August at the QTH of G4RWW. From left:
- Blanca, XYL of
Bernie G8TB on salad duty
- CATS and SRCC
members tucking in
- Our host Prue
G4RWW on the sticky chocolate cake
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CATS DF (Direction
Finding) Hunt June 2007
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Photos taken during
the 2007 CATS annual DF hunt. From left:
- CATS members
assemble ready for the "off"
- Len, G0GNQ, with
his DF antenna
- Ian, M3IGP, with
his DF antenna
- Victorious winners
Martin (G4FKK) and daughter Katie
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CATS DF (Direction
Finding) Hunt June 2008
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Photos taken during
the 2008 CATS annual DF hunt. From left:
- CATS members
assemble ready for the "off"
- G0GNQ and team
craftily getting their initial bearing via moonbounce
- Concentration as
the G4FVL team take initial bearings
- Victorious winners
Martin (G4FKK) and daughter Katie - for the second year running
-receive their prize from Terry
G4CDY
CATS
QUIZ 2008
Photos from the CATS
2008 quiz. From left:
- The assembled
teams pondering a question
- Quizmaster
“Mad” Frank G3ZMF
- The victorious
Klerryx – G6YOG, G8VXB, visitor and G8NNT after receiving their prizes
from G3ZMF
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Friedrichshafen
Visit June 2008
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Pictures show from
left to right:
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Hoch
Schwarzwalde (Black Forest), Germany, at the House of a 1000 Clocks, en
route to Friedrichshafen
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CATS
members Prue (G4RWW) and Dave (G8VXB) look for bargains
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Trader
at the show
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Time
for some serious refreshment on the way back to blighty
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HMS
Collingwood
Visit July 2006
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Pictures show from
left to right:
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The
CATS group pictured in front of the huge Type 965 RADAR antenna
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RADAR
display unit from the Admiral Graff Spee
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M3IGP
and G7SYO investigating the valve display room
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Built
for and like a battleship! The massive receivers type B46 & B47 with
transmitter type 5AH introduced in 1948
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Poldhu
Cornwall Marconi Trip
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From Left these
pictures show:
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The Poldhu Club's
Shack
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A demonstration of
early Wireless Equipment at the STC Museum near Poldhu. As the Museum was
underground we were able to operate a spark gap transmitter at this location
with no risk of actually getting out!
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Club members (L to
R) G8VXB, G0KZT, G8NNT,G6MFM, M0SYO at the Marconi Monument
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A
quick visit to the Eden Project followed at the end of the trip
(Thanks for the Poldhu
and Eden Photographs to Gerry G8NNT) |
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09/12/2008 by G3WZK
