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Posted: Wed Aug 22nd, 2012 11:48

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Judith

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Not been online a lot lately as I only have internet on my phone now so only check in when I'm in a web cafe with my laptop. And it's just too damned hot here to think about going out and taking photos. Am also heading back to the high seas for September. Maybe by then we'll all have wakened up a bit after the summer! Good idea for the monthly project.

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Posted: Wed Aug 22nd, 2012 16:24

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Ray Ninness

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steve of oxford wrote: Ray..."Motorcycles to ride, Amateur Radio to play"

Same here, had loads of bikes when I was younger. Basically not many had cars back then, bikes was all we had and you needed mechanical knowledge or you didn't get to work on time.

As for amateur radio, well I have rigs here... a TS520S and a TS 700G. Not licenced though I suppose I should get around to it one day. Spent some time with the Foreign Office in years gone by that's how I acquired skills & became morse proficient.Likewise I still have my Kenwood TS 520, my Novice rig, and a TS830S, and an Icom 751a the portable rig I used when I was living in Italy!! "Portable" lump, but all still work fine. Last year right after i got back on teh air I bought a new Kenwood TS 590s, everything has changed and the new rig can be run from the computer, all the logging is online and on the computer DX nets and spotting networks abound..

K1KXN is my current call the original from 1976 was WD8KXN.. Get on the air it's different and still fun..

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Posted: Wed Aug 22nd, 2012 17:18

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KenRay

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Have thought many times about taking up Ham radio but don't like tests so have never gone further than buying a book once. The Morse requirement never bothered me as I was a High Speed radio operator in the Army. Just don't like tests and see little need for all the Govt requires for Ham Radio. If you could just apply and pay a fee it would be fun I imagine. When I was in the Army we were permitted to use our radios in off hours and communicated with many other operators in many remote places.Had a SSB CB that worked sometime on skip but was never reliable,but fun when it did.

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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2012 12:03

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steve of oxford

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KenRay wrote:
Have thought many times about taking up Ham radio but don't like tests so have never gone further than buying a book once. The Morse requirement never bothered me as I was a High Speed radio operator in the Army. Just don't like tests and see little need for all the Govt requires for Ham Radio. If you could just apply and pay a fee it would be fun I imagine. When I was in the Army we were permitted to use our radios in off hours and communicated with many other operators in many remote places.Had a SSB CB that worked sometime on skip but was never reliable,but fun when it did.

Slightly different nowadays in England, we no longer have stuffy tests. In fact it's never been easier.

If the US is anything like what England used to be at one time, I'd guess it isn't the US government responsible for bullsht test criteria, but probably amateurs themselves lobbying for ridiculous criteria.....usually the old farts.

We still have loads of old farts here involved in the activity, fortunately OFCOM banged 'em to right years ago and they no longer have influence.

Our novice licence give us 10 Watts, but does allow HF too. Not that I know any novices who run 100W from a TS520 lol

The only annoying restrictions we have are in transmission mode, if it's RTTY it' supposed to be standard baudot or packet so they know what you are up to.

The government here likes to give GCHQ as much immunity as possible to poke it's nose in other people's business, and this will eventually extend to all UK internet traffic.

....not that I know anyone who transmits ENIGMA or FISH he he :-)

which annoys the crap out of the state eavesdroppers.....cannot be decrypted if you know what not to transmit.

Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2012 12:16

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Judith wrote:
Not been online a lot lately as I only have internet on my phone now so only check in when I'm in a web cafe with my laptop. And it's just too damned hot here to think about going out and taking photos. Am also heading back to the high seas for September. Maybe by then we'll all have wakened up a bit after the summer! Good idea for the monthly project.

:wine:

Welcome to the new site Judith. Still doing that risque body art stuff?

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