We cant all have large beams..

Maybe you don't have enough 'estate', the funds wont allow, or more likely the Station Manager has spoken, perhaps you don't actually want a large antenna, either way what does it matter as long as you are enjoying your radio.

I have a HAM friend local to me who uses a SteppIR 3 element yagi antenna, we quite often hook up on 20m to work Stateside, Penn, G0VQY puts out a fabulous signal, rare is his report anything less than 5/9, mine however is often 4/0 to 5/5 on my homebrew 40/20/15m dipole and 100 watts, but do I care, no not one bit, it just spurs me on to improve my station !

However on 10m with the Sporadic E running, my vertical 5/8 does start to give him a run for his money !

Advanced RAE - Passed !

Thanks to Simon, M0TGT, who posted on the blog to say that the results were out, and to log onto the OFCOM website.

I did just this, after the usual problem with the password, why does that always happen when you are in a hurry, anyway once into my personal page, it let me register a new M0 callsign and print out the license requirements.

Hopefully a letter should be in the post to confirm.

73 de Paul, M0PCZ !

PS - I now have to change all my details, QRZ, Ham radio Deluxe, etc, at least I wont have to do it again.

A little update..

I have not been very busy at all on the blog, in fact I was quite shocked to see when I last 'penned' something on here.

Radio wise, nothing much new has been happening, well one event of note, I took my Advanced RAE exam a couple of weeks ago, and will have to wait a least another two weeks for the result, I didn't get the chance to do much revision, however I think it went well, so we'll have to wait and see.

73 Paul.