Jack GM4COX is giving a talk on “Keeping Things Simple for SOTA” at the ASRA Braehead Rally this weekend.
I will be there as will Mickey YYY but I suspect that neither us will be able to attend Jack’s talk.
Details: https://asrarally.com/
What is ASRA? Nowhere on their website is this abbreviation interpreted.
“Celtic Music Radio Live broadcast throughout the event.”
Oh my!!!
73,
Walt (G3NYY)
ASRA = Association of Scottish Radio Amateurs (wild guess)
Should’ve gone to Specsavers Walt!
There will be a SOTA stand there with a limited range of merchandise.
Stop by for a chat, I might even be moderately sociable 
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M1EYP wrote:
Association Scottish Radio Amateurs
Never heard of it!
The search engine comes up with:
American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA)
or
Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association
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Walt (G3NYY)
It’s new-ish Walt.
Your original complaint was that it wasn’t possible to surf the ASRA website and find a definition for ASRA. I was simply demonstrating the inaccuracy of that claim, not the state of up-to-datedness of well-known search engines.
Context Tom… the rally site doesn’t explain what ASRA is. The ASRA site does.
OK fair enough. I didn’t really notice a great deal of separation between them myself.
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Furthermore, I was unable to find the ASRA web site. I still can’t! What is its URL and where is it referenced?
Walt (G3NYY)
That looks a lot posher than other rally venues! Nice.
Neither can I right now… There is a farcebork page.
This is the website for the event (which acording to this page already happened on May 7th ?).
http://www.braehead-arena.co.uk/Events/Whats-on/Association-of-Scottish-Radio-Amateurs
Their (I think chainpoint hosted) web site appears to have issues as it asks for a logon password when you go to www.scottishhamcon.com
73 Ed.
It’s really not. Please refer to the first post in the thread for accurate information.
Yes which is why I raised the fact that the Braehead arena site is saying it’s on May 7th.
AHA - another page on the SAME WEBSITE - here: http://www.braehead-arena.co.uk/Events/Whats-on/ASRA-Rally says 20th. May.
They also have a one page info page here - https://asrarally.com/
Braehead Arena really need to either correct or remove the page at http://www.braehead-arena.co.uk/Events/Whats-on/Association-of-Scottish-Radio-Amateurs - as that’s the one that google finds!
Well I Googled it and came up with the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, but then I’m dylsexic.
Ha ha! I am not a member of any social networking farce … nor will I ever be! They are nothing but trouble.
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Walt (G3NYY)
Hmmm! I am old enough to remember the so-called “Radio Club of Scotland” which was set up in Glasgow in the early 1960s. It lasted for about 3 years before it collapsed.
Not unlike the “UK Radio Society” or something similar, which had an even shorter life-span.
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Walt (G3NYY)
Yes, May 7th 2017. That was last year’s event. :-)))))
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Walt (G3NYY)