A candidate who had just passed his Advanced exam has discovered that the Ofcom licensing website will issue old, unused amateur radio callsigns, in his case a G6.
Paul 2E0EAN tried selecting various permutations of Advanced (Full) call from the Ofcom website as he recalled reading somewhere that they were running out of M0's and would start using up the gaps in the system. After several tries the system offered him the distinctive G6FAX which he immediately took.
The G6 call block was originally issued in the early 1980's. It is not known which other callsigns blocks are available from the Ofcom system but half of the G2 call sign block was never issued so may be available as well.
Very interesting, so is this a good or bad thing ?
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Sunday 3 July 2011
CW, QRS.
Yes, it's coming on slowly, very.
I have downloaded a program that uses the Koch method, whereby you start by learning two letters at a speed of 12 WPM or greater, once you have gained an accuracy of >90% over a 5 minute copy, you can add another letter, and so on.
So that's M and K sorted out then !
http://www.justlearnmorsecode.com/
Nothing much else to blog at the moment, the bands have been very quiet this way, don't know how everyone else has been finding it ?
I have downloaded a program that uses the Koch method, whereby you start by learning two letters at a speed of 12 WPM or greater, once you have gained an accuracy of >90% over a 5 minute copy, you can add another letter, and so on.
So that's M and K sorted out then !
http://www.justlearnmorsecode.com/
Nothing much else to blog at the moment, the bands have been very quiet this way, don't know how everyone else has been finding it ?
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