ACROSS THE SEA:
LETTER FROM THE SARDINIA QRP CLUB

I was looking for something about QRP on the web and entered the Adventure Radio Society’s website. You have my best compliments for your work and ideas.

Maybe I’d never seen it before, and that looks interesting to me because we share the same points of view: Homebrewing and Adventure.

I am the president and founder of a small QRP club named the “Sardinia QRP Club.” It was born in 2003 (and became "Radioamateurs Association" last January 2005) to join the Radioamateurs and the Scout worlds, because they have lots of common activities (JOTA first, but not only) – mostly in open fields.

Our activities? Homebrewing and adventure. We say: Build, Learn and Teach.

Sardinia is a beautiful island of the Mediterranean Sea and has many interesting places for transmitting during JOTA or contests. For instance, on April 15 we’ll visit an ancient building named "Nuraghe of Santu Antine" (it is the logo of our club) that will host us at the end of the month for a test of the Pixies, Foxx3, Rock Mite and antennas we are preparing with students who must take the exams for license May 27.

To see the building, visit:
http://www.stonepages.com/sardinia/sites/santu_antine.html

For more on Sardinia, visit:
http://www.isolasarda.com/home_e.htm

In meeting with all the team of our club I am proposing a QRP Contest of Nuraghi during the last week of April of every year. It would be wonderful if at that time at least some ARS members and some Sardinia QRP Club members could meet on the air at convenient UTC time.

It is just an idea. Please, write us if you agree and also please visit our guestbook at www.sardiniaqrp.com
Soon we will also have English.
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Franco Bachetti, ISØVSU, is a QRPer and outdoorsman living in Selargius, Italy.