MUSEUM NEWS JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2004.

by Dave Gemmell ZS6AAW
and the Old Timers.

FLYING DAYS or AIRSHOWS.

At he first monthly meeting of the Friends, the CO. of the SAAF Museum Lt-Col Niel Thomas announced that as from February 2004 there would a Flying Day at Swartkop AFB on the first Saturday of each month and one or two Air Shows spaced out during the year. Please note the following dates in 2004 :-

FLYING DAYS: 7th February, 6th March, 3rd April, 5th June, 3rd July, 7th August, 3rd September, 3rd October, and 27th November.

AIR SHOWS: May 1st, 2004 at Swartkop and 25th September 2004 at Waterkloof

Hopefully we will be able to get ZS6MUS activated for the whole day on each occasion.

The show at Waterkloof will be out of the question due logistic problems.

YSTERPLAAT AIRSHOW.

Saturday November 6th, 2004 was also quoted as the date for an air show at Ysterplaat (Western Cape)

SPECIAL EVENT STATION ZS100FLY.

Rob Parkinson ZS6RAP will be operating a special event station operating for the rest of 2004 to celebrate 100 years of powered flight. He arranged to have the special call sign ZS 100 FLY which he will be using when he operates his station from various Airports, Historic monuments, Air shows and Aviation sites throughout South Africa. A special collectors item QSL card will be issued. The station will operate on all HF Bands and 2 metres.

On the 17th December 2003, the actual date of the anniversary of the Wright brothers’ historic flight, I activated ZS6FLY from the SAAF Museum and what made it even more enjoyable was that I managed to contact ZS100FLY operated by Rob from the Rand Airport.

SPECIAL EVENT CALLSIGNS.

While still on the subject of special event stations, HAVE YOU CHAPS RENEWED YOUR SPECIAL EVENT CALLSIGNS YET!!! If you haven’t, it may cost you R140 to get them back!!

SEE ???? Column regarding a “new” special event callsign “registration system”.

Some of this news may be a bit old but, after all, it is a museum column!!!

Shouldn’t we be a bit more “long sighted” and say….

……….There’s no signal like an old signal……..

RADIO ZS

Members can now download the most recent edition of Radio ZS from the SARL website. The file is 1,4 megs big and should be a fairly easy download. The editor is busy preparing the last issue for 2003 and is in need of local articles. These can be sent to radiozs@sarl.org.za.

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