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Fantastic club prizes. Could be a tough race with north in the wind most of the was.ATB to you all john b

Brighton instead of Eastbourne Due to reports of hawk attacks at Eastbourne in recent weeks we will now race from BRIGHTON on Saturday 9th July instead. We apologise for the delay in notification but have only just received confirmation that this is available.

Thanks to all that have been in touch

Mike, your better giving it to either Hamish or Davie Gullane.

Ene as far as the Liverpool area

Not surprising going so far west and then having a ene wind. As the convoyer stated,they headed in a north west direction, right into Wales and carrying on into Ireland. Absolutely shocking returns, taking the majority of the pigeons completely off line.

He took over from John Murray

259 members sent 1631 birds - Section A - 491; Section B - 228; Section C - 197; Section D - 168; Section E - 299; Section F - 169; Section G - 79

Race Marking for Yeovil - Section B - Dolphingstone Farm, Tranent will now be from 4pm to 6pm. Please pass this information onto any member who you think is sending.

Clocks will be 18.00 - 19.30 tonight (Sunday) at Elphinstone Miners

I know of a couple of fanciers already talking about it

Jamie, would hate to think of the cost to send birds across the channel next year. This year with so many marking stations with vets attending, the sign off with an official defra vet at Gretna then the cost of the French Vet at the border control point. SNFC paying cost this year, but would be lucky to survive another 3 - 4 years without increasing birdage drastically or increasing annual fees again. Central marking would be the only viable situation. Doesn’t surprise me that as many fanciers are not signing up to DEFRA, some guys are struggling financially just to live.

Approx 505 miles to Edinburgh

Davie, can remember these good days. Big birdages and 1:20 for prizes Rennes and Nantes. It’s time it went back to central marking, also don’t think the bird# ar3 there for a normal 4 channel races these days. john b

No it’s it’s the information sheet sent out by the Secretary. No marking station for channel racing in Aberdeen

At the last committee meeting, marking stations for the proposed channel races were not discussed, when we left the meeting it was still the 7 - 8 marking stations

You would require a ring marker plus a base station. In Scotland most of the base stations are the older profi . Most of the new base stations are the champ. The champ ets clock works in the profi club base station but the profi clock does not fit in the champ base station. The Unikon champ,Bricon and benzing systems allow member to input their own ring numbers,colours and sex. The profi requires Unikon software on lab top to do the above. hope this helps john b

I wouldn’t recommend the Unikon system to any one trying to purchase a system. The problems that we have seen this year after their last upgrade. Think the software is so old,they are only patching it to keep it going. If buying a new system they usually give the club system on loan to the club. john b

Pop up have now disappeared, good

There is another committee meeting on the 29th May. Hopefully all will be sorted out by then concerning race points and what will be required to obtain the export licence to fly the channel. john b

From RPRA website costing off loft visit from vets

https://shuonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SKM_C30822051109060.pdf hopefully link works, if not check shu website. Shu online