Oh dear, I thought my email was self-explanatory. I didn't know that I was REQUIRED to transmit in order to explore reception techniques. In fact my licence doesn't seem to REQUIRE me to have QSO's!
hi guys etc., Off-topic I know but for those interested In an obituary in today's Times here in UK. comes news of the death of Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes. Worth noting is that he became interested
Season's Greetings to one and all no matter what your interests in radio (there's room for us all). I hope 2011 brings you all the things you hope for. -- 73 es gd dx de pat g4gvw qth nr felixstowe
Mal, For many of us who, while licensed radio amateurs, are mainly interested in the behaviour of the spectrum and the medium via which signals are propagated, beacons at UHF, VHF, HF, MF, LF et. al.
Ah Haa Clive you might be right! The trick is going to be: to launch into space a conductive length of "wire" to a distance of approx. 36,000Km between Earth and a geostationary orbital location. (Se
Hi Andy, Thanks for that description. I'm sure it teaches some of us a lot and gives food for thought. I'm curious about your clamp ammeter. Is it a dedicated instrument or a "probe type which uses a
Hi John, If you still remember Suffolk "as she is spoke", "Tha's a rum un Bor" 73 -- 73 es gd dx de pat g4gvw qth nr felixstowe uk (east coast, county of suffolk)
Thanks for that, Andy, It's a bit more modern and sophisticated than my old Weston and Amprobe clampers! 73 -- 73 es gd dx de pat g4gvw qth nr felixstowe uk (east coast, county of suffolk)
Hi All, I'm pleased there are others running OpenOffice AND probably flavours of Linux too in this group. I, personally, love Oo,s versatility and find it an extremely rare occasion that I am unable
We actually did seriously consider this as a solution to a a very difficult problem in an industrial situation some years ago when we were colleagues and dealing with a situation that involved both e
Pete, I can't remember it being "WileyWerld" but there was also a nomograph for that conversion which required the use of C (Plancke's) in the conversion formula when used on the first day of the fou
My favourite has to be: "The more you know, the more you will know that you have more to know than you will ever know!" 73 -- 73 es gd dx de pat g4gvw qth nr felixstowe uk (east coast, county of suff
It, also, raises an interesting point about the merits and demerits of routing mains cabling in metal conduits (earthed/grounded). On the one hand you have a shielded system which, assuming the drop
Actually, Chris makes a good point. My licence costs less than my daily newspaper! In return I get a lot of stuff that my newspaper doesn't give me. For instance, terrific documentaries and education
Roger, This might indeed be a momentous moment. For years and years those of us who had to deal with what is now OFCOM in its various incarnations for professional purposes used to automatically expe
Hi Roelof, Some interesting comments there. On the topic of feeder pick up Alan G3NYK and myself have had many conversations over the years about ways to deal with the problem and a method we've neve
Peter, Many years ago when I did 160m mobile I had a setup in which the mobile antenna had a loading coil that used a copper disc approx. 150% of the coil dia. placed with a centre boss that could be
Hi All 'specially Pete 'FMT Highly compressed Rock'n'Roll jus' ain't Rock 'n' Roll ! LOL :>) 73 (Don't think we ever did a 'Q' code for Rock'n'Roll ?) -- 73 es gd dx de pat g4gvw qth nr felixstowe uk
Hi Andy, Small point (and I stand ready to be corrected) but I'm sure Douglas Bader was WW2 although I think he flew some WW1 models early in his flying career before he had his accident(?) Her spent
