The British Caving Association

UK Cave Technology Symposium 2010 This event is now confirmed as taking place. Initial info is given below. A more detailed programme will be posted here later. 9am to 5pm, Saturday 17 April, Horton-in-Ribblesdale Village Hall, North Yorkshire, UK. Admission discount for BCRA members. As usual, thi...

White power LED achieves 200 lumen per watt This snippet is from the e-newsletter of Elektor magazine. http://elektor.com Fri, 19 Feb 2010. Cree, Inc. announces another industry-best reported efficacy record of 208 lumens per watt for a white power LED. Cree’s tests confirmed that the LED produced ...

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As you'll have realised - its extremely quiet in here. You might like to email creg-enquiries@bcra.org.uk for info, and you might also like to ask in the Speleonics list at http://lists.altadena.net/mailman/listinfo/speleonics or in the UK Caving Forum at http://ukcaving.com/board

Hybrid Batteries available at Maplin I notice that Maplin, an electronic equipment retailer in the UK, now sell their own branded 'hybrid' NiMH cells in PP3, C and D size as well as AAA and AA. Unusually, the C and D cells really are a higher capacity than the AAs. You can see from the list below h...

Batteries for the 21st Century This article is copyright David Gibson, 2010. It is an edited version of an article that first appeared in CREG journal 70 in March 2008, see http://bcra.org.uk/creg/jnl/index.html?j=70 A new type of nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery with a very low self-disch...

See http://british-caving.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=354 for information about the date and venue This message has now been superseded. The event WILL be going ahead as planned. Mike Bedford, Lecture Secretary for the BCRA Cave Technology Symposium 2010, recently sent the following email ... If y...

Council meetings for 2010

#144    Sunday 14 March
#145    Sunday 20 June
#146    Sunday 05 September
#147    Sunday 14 November

all at Glutton Bridge, 10:30am

BCA Newsletter 12 has now been published and should be on your doorsteps soon. It includes a "pull-out supplement" containing BCRA news, which you can also read at http://bcra.org.uk/news/#news . Speleology 15 and C&KS 35(3) are both in production and should, hopefully, be issued early...

Any of you who run a web site might like to know that Chris Howes, editor of Descent is advising that any links you have to the Descent website at http://caving.uk.com/ should now be altered to http://wildplaces.co.uk/ At present, forwarding is in place but this may only be for a limited period. Ple...

Items sent to me, either by bulk-email or by post. I'll update this list as items arrive.

Leaflet: 100 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANISED HUNGARIAN SPELEOLOGY - speleohungary100 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - 7-9. May 2010. Info at http://www.barlang.hu/speleohungary100

In the Forwards section of cPanel select "Add Forwarder" to set up your first forward Alternatively, if you have a large list to manage, you could perhaps consider setting up a mailing list. You can configure this so that only you can post to it, but it has the advantage that people can m...

BCRA Council is looking into methods of providing more 'tangible' membership benefits. Newsletters are one such device, but we are also considering the possibility of giving members free admission to BCRA events (apart from Hidden Earth), at the expense of an increase in the admission fee to non-mem...

Revival of BCRA newsletters After David Gibson resigned as newsletter editor in 2008, Council made a pragmatic decision to discontinue the production of newsletters. However, now that David has been appointed as secretary, the newsletter will be revived, although some issues will be a supplement to...

BCRA Cave Science Symposium 2010 Saturday 6 March 2010, Bristol. Presentations of short papers on Cave and Karst Science topics. This one day Symposium will take place on Saturday 6 March 2010 at the University of Bristol . The meeting will be hosted by Dr David Richards of the School of Geographic...

BCRA Cave Science Field Meeting - Cheddar Sunday 7 March 2010, Cheddar(Somerset). Talks and show-cave tour of Gough's Cave, Cheddar , with an optional science-themed 'adventure caving' trip. This one day field meeting will take place on Sunday 7 March 2010 at Gough's Cave, Cheddar. The meeting will...