Any RadioHams

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mondo

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Took up the hobby around 10 years ago...took my Foundation...got the call sign M6 FAX..
Then took my Intermediate..got the call sign 2E0KCE...
Still working on the Full licence..
Any other Funsters have any Ham Call Signs..
 
DBK

I think the "Ham" includes what he gets up to. Its way above my head though, almost as high as his balloons ! He ll be along shortly
 
mondo said:
Took up the hobby around 10 years ago...took my Foundation...got the call sign M6 FAX..
Then took my Intermediate..got the call sign 2E0KCE...
Still working on the Full licence..
Any other Funsters have any Ham Call Signs..
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There are a few of us but we're not very organised as a MH group. :) I'm a very recent ham having started in lockdown and because I had nothing better to do worked my way up to a Full licence and am now M0WIV.

My original reason for taking it up was SOTA, Summits On The Air, and I've activated a few summits here in Britain and also now (using the MH) in France and Spain. I've also done a few POTA sites (Parks On The Air) and it was a lot easier doing these in Spain than SOTA summits!

I don't do a huge amount from home, it's mostly portable stuff. I have dabbled, unsuccessfully, with FM satellites - but I think I'm getting there and may yet manage a QSO! .

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Was very active as a class B in the 1980s, failed the morse. Started a business but now retired. Amazed to find callsign is now automatically a class A.
Still got icom2e somewhere.
Mike
G8jxs
 
Been licensed as a ‘B’ class since about 1996 and an ‘A’ class (M0AXK) since about 1998.
Lost interest when the internet took off and haven’t been active for best part of 20 years. Sold all my kit years ago, apart from 100 metres or so of RG213 loitering in the garage somewhere. Oh, and a 25 foot telescopic mast gathering moss behind the garage.

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DBK said:
There are a few of us but we're not very organised as a MH group. :) I'm a very recent ham having started in lockdown and because I had nothing better to do worked my way up to a Full licence and am now M0WIV.

My original reason for taking it up was SOTA, Summits On The Air, and I've activated a few summits here in Britain and also now (using the MH) in France and Spain. I've also done a few POTA sites (Parks On The Air) and it was a lot easier doing these in Spain than SOTA summits!

I don't do a huge amount from home, it's mostly portable stuff. I have dabbled, unsuccessfully, with FM satellites - but I think I'm getting there and may yet manage a QSO! .
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I reckon you should change your name to TLA FLA or OFLA




Three letter Acronym
Four letter Acronym
Or Five letter Acronym (y)
 
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Took RAE in 1982. Then 6 months later North Foreland BT radio station for my morse test.
Still take part in Top band Direction Finding.

73s G4TEB
 
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pyro was this your bag?
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Indeed, de G6FDE, similar time frame, too lazy for morse, but I don't need it, and I use ASCII now that B is upgraded.

I like the vintage military kit, collect "wieless Set 19, mk1" s (got 5) Nearly killed my old dad when I got fed up with one and tossed it out of the window - it just missed him. I have a decent HF/2M Yauesu somewhere, but no dipole or LW to tune it to. Why, when everyone uses Whatsapp and the RSGB is full of morons anyway? Even the publication qualities have declined. Got a marine and aviation licence as well.

Even my favourite cat is called Katie after the KT88 valve. I couldn't call her an 807

SC/MP (4013), micro professor (z80 version of the AIM65). MZ80, a few lumps of PDP11 and a Mamod steam engine in the loft. That's the trouble with retirement, not enough time to play with all your toys. I'm a hoarder,


73s all, the XYL is nagging.
 
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Well done, I must admit I miss the old days of self-build, but a stroke put paid to most of my activities. That and the waste of technology called digital mode, may as well use a pc in the first place
 
There was a guy travelling on his own we parked near at Shrewsbury recently and he had lots of aerials and radio equipment. Can't recall his name !!! Jaws will know.
 
could anyone Kindly advise an info / guidence site for the interested as google offers diddly/or really strange stuff
 
Well, are any of us odd lot going to Malvern next week.
Might just dig out the '2e and leave it on s20! Shame the malvern repeater is long gone Don't think I dare run ssb from here surrounded by houses
And I
can't get the hang of all these different callsigns.
Just remembered that I did win the Hereford constructors prize for my 2m xtal controlled transceiver.(aka brick!
Long long ago.
Mike g8jxs
 
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Got mine in 1984 or 1985 when I was 13. G1WMI but not active these days. I need to get it sorted out.
 
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Was active in the early 1990. G0RWC. until the Russian started using powerful amplifiers.Not active anymore.
 
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Met an Welshman? down in Portugal who used the van body as an aerial to receive LW or was 160m?
He said it worked well because the tyres acted as insulators.
Seemed to work though
Mike
G8jxs

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I thought retirement would be a good time to use licence , but been to busy with this motorhome malarkey
G0CQI
 
G1TUZ but not been active for many years.
 
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It may have been gozomike
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Last time I was at Shrewsbury was June last year.

Currently at Lyndon Top, Rutland Water and listening on GB3EM when near the van. On the 20th I should be at the Rugby Club Radio Rally with a 6m mast on the back of the van then on the 21st off to Pershore.

I am mostly active on VHF & UHF but do use HF, mostly 40m, from home.

If any one wants to set up a meet Quackers place might be one to look at, it is a good VHF location. When I was there I was working through the Bristol TV repeater, GB3ZZ, that was before it moved location.

Mike

G8DLX & 9H5MC
 
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I thought retirement would be a good time to use licence , but been to busy with this motorhome malarkey
G0CQI
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Retirement is the busiest time in my life, and with Arduino, Pi and the PC with a 1G fibre, there's not a great deal of call in this household for radio comms now (sadly)

Things have moved on a lot over the years, internet connected digital radios to like equipped amateurs halway round the word seem about as satisfying as (to quote Hancock) as asking about the weather in Tokyo or asking if you're 5 & 9 in Sheffield.

I had to do morse for the nautical licence, it was again tested on IFR (aviation licence), the ARE seemed superfluous when they dropped the morse requirement. I've since only used it for TLA ID on aviation beacons, and that's almost dead now.

It's a crying shame, I loved the experimentation, design, building and to a lesser extent, using radio comms. But the proliferation of repeaters, the spoilers (anti repeater mob), CB tw@ts, the political shenanigans and shaming of the once mighty RSGB and the sophistication (and cost) of some of the Japanese kit (and the excessive profit of some ham outlets) killed it for me.

Convice me otherwise, but the days of muti-elemented Yagis stuck on rotators are fast disappearing, in their place a whole generation is emerging to use Raspberry Pis and Arduinos to actually do more useful things than check on the Tokyo weather at 3 am. Like wake me up, desalinate the pool or run the security system. I still fire up the odd vintage19 set or the TR59 when the XYL turns on Gogglebox or a cooking prog, though.

Thanks to the Chinese, you can buy a half decent 2m x band handie for £30 and a decent DSO for £300. Although I must say, VHF and UHF are dead in Portugal already

One day, perhaps, but I've lost a lot of the enthusiasm I once had.

De G6FDE

ps; the webcam show's it's raining in Tokyo at the moment!
 
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