Wednesday 29 December 2010

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 !







Thursday 9 December 2010

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.

Sunday 5 December 2010

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.