Radio Amateurs on Here

Post by **crossword** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:17 pm

How many of us are there on the message board ? My original licence was G6BMN in 1981 . Since 1983 I am G4RVS .Ihave so far found Bmcecosse GM7AYY & Alex Holden M1CJD .
Bmc I'm 55 this year , sat the RAE in 1980 when I was 27 so how young are you ?

QRZ ? Andy

Post by **alex_holden** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:19 pm

I got my license in 1997 when I was 17. I let it lapse around 5 years later because it proved much less interesting than the Internet and they used to charge an annual fee. My home-made Slim Jim antenna is still attached to the chimney.

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:29 pm

I was a radio professional for over a decade - that any use?
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Post by **crossword** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:33 pm

Did you have your own callsign bigginger ?

Post by **Orkney** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:44 pm

Next door neighbour is an active one - well along the trackbour, I'll find out his callsign.
He put up some crazy ariel in the autumn, must be 100ft tall and in all fairness its survived a few gales so far.
Let him put some 500+ m recieving horizontal ariel across the sheep field in the winters as its aimed at the states, thats the recieving ariel and the transmitter is a seperate one.
Pretty interesting to see the setup really, all hooked into the PC so not a matter of luck and the ear as of years ago, more technical prowess nowadays i guess?

Post by **Orkney** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:46 pm

I was a radio professional for over a decade - that any use?

have we discovered the true identity of Ask Elvis ?

Post by **crossword** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:57 pm

There can be more technical sophistication these days or relatively little . For example Packet radio using a computer & radio transciever or just the tranceiver, an aerial & microphone My preferred usage would be talking to people . I have been known to sit on a clifftop using a morse key because propagation condition favoured VHF & UHF openings to Europe . For the same power morse code will almost always travel further than voice modes of transmission .
BTW amateurs tend to say the more metal you have in the sky the better & if you can sleep when its windy , you haven't enough .

Would imagine orkney to see the occasional stiff breeze from time to time !
Andy

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:08 pm

crossword wrote:Did you have your own callsign bigginger ?

Short of 'BBC World Service' in about 40 languages, no

Post by **Orkney** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:15 pm

I'll get you a pic of it in the morning - to see is to believe - seriously !
Anywhere else and the council would be all over like a rash saying take it down - actually that happened to someone last year here and it was all lovely new kit. Live and let live in this patch though

Hes quite unlucky as in being below me here by maybe 50ft so needs that to see the horizon, a mate of his operates from his house next to a redundant decca station and i reckon he's hooked up to it !

Post by **crossword** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:29 pm

If you were involved with the transmitters at Daventry in the mid eighties bigginger you may have been partly responsible for me receiving a merit award of £400 for curing a RF interference problem in about 5 minutes on an ultrasound scanner . Sorry it's all spent so no share for you even if you were !
Andy

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:38 pm

S'OK, I wasn't

Sound engineer, me
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Post by **bmcecosse** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:05 pm

Crossword - my ident is G 7 ALL ( Roy Allingham ). It so happened the G 7 idents were just about to be issued when I passed the exam (many many moons ago) and so I requested and waited a few weeks for that ident. Car reg came up for sale a few years ago too - couldn't resist. Quite a few G etc car regs are Radio Amateurs. I am recently early retired at 60 years young!

Post by **Bluesman** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:01 pm

I´m SM7SCJ - since 1987. Hyperactive multimode DXer on VHF/UHF and 50MHz for many years, non-radioactive apartment dweller since 2006. Started as a shortwave listener 1963 or so.. It´s been good fun.

73/Richard

Post by **crossword** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:10 am

Apologies BMC G7ALL , I was doing other things as well on Sunday , that will teach me to post in a hurry !

Regards Andy

Post by **alex_holden** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:22 pm

Orkney wrote:have we discovered the true identity of Ask Elvis ?

I've heard that it's actually Mitch Benn.

Post by **bigginger** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:39 pm

I thought it was Elvis, who is also The Stig from Top Gear...
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Post by **Orkney** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:59 pm

There have been 2 stigs so far on top gear ........
but theres only one real Stig in the driving world and i've met him ! Some ungodly hour before daylight next to me in the que waiting for the cafe to open at the beginning of a special stage in the middle of nowhere.
The original Stig is one cool fella and a bloody nice bloke

Post by **bigginger** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:31 pm

I now the first one dosn't do it any more, and rather suspect that more than one person does it now too. No point discussing it really, theres TONS of speculation on the net about the identity of all but the first one

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