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/////////////////////////////////////////// Getting publicity for Amateur Radio

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Publicity can be magical and when it comes to ham radio, it's great magic. Jeremy Boot G4NJH tells WIA News how one amateur in the UK used newspaper publicity to boost ham radio's profile

/////////////////////////////////////////// The uncertain future of Ham Radio

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Julianne Pepitone writes in the IEEE Spectrum magazine about the state of amateur radio in the USA

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7-CALL 30th Anniversary special station

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7-CALL Amateur Radio Club has started operation from a 2nd Shack of 8J17CALL, 7-CALL 30th Anniversary Special station on 11th July, 2020

/////////////////////////////////////////// Austral and Marquesas Islands DXpedition postponed

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Lance, W7GJ, informs OPDX of the following: Because of the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, we regret that the W7GJ 6m EME DXpedition to FO/A and FO/M and the KB7Q 2m EME DXpedition to FO/M must be delayed until 2021

/////////////////////////////////////////// SARL 80m Club Sprint

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The fourth leg of the 80m Club Sprint is on the air from 17:00 to 18:00 UTC on Wednesday 15th July with CW and phone activity

/////////////////////////////////////////// Polish special callsign

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Members of the Mysliborski Klub Lacznosci PZK (SP1PMY) will be active with the special callsign SN87LOT from Mysliborz between now and August 31st

/////////////////////////////////////////// Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

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Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels

[Stephen Cole]

Certainly a better boost for the hobby?s profile than this publicity:

[Smolley]

What is your part in this story, apart from shit stirring....?

[T i m]

Yup, or learned from your Dad, an Uncle or mate who already did it.

Whilst you *could* by commercial solutions for RC models in those days., my Xmas present one years was a plywood RC cabin cruiser it and a the parts for an RC kit. Ok, I didn't design it myself (I was only

10) but I had to assemble and tune it and did actually get it working (albeit with restricted range).

Yup. As it was here in the good old days, before the influx of people more used to Twatter and babble.

It was indeed. Everything is until a minority ruin it for everyone.

Daughter used to attend a local Sunday-morning motorcycle off-road track and it used to attract kids from about 5 years old up to adults. The vast majority used to respect both the other riders (you would often see older kids helping the younger ones) and the rules of the venue.

Then you got a minority of 'youth' who though the rules didn't apply to them and ran big bikes with next to no exhausts and you could see parents ushering their youngsters off the track as soon as they appeared.

Then the neighbours complained about the nose levels and how they often ran after the agreed cutoff time (the management couldn't get them off the track) and so the Local Council pulled the entire facility for everyone. 5 individuals ruining it for 60 others.

Now, said trouble makers weren't bothered because they would just go elsewhere and (illegally in many cases) annoy someone else (until they got chased off / arrested / shot) but they really needed a good talking to re what being a good citizen is all about. Hopefully they are all in prison now, assuming some aggrieved parents/ landowner hadn't got to them first.

Cheers, T i m

[Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:25:53 +0100, "Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote: SNIP

Well there is not a lot to add to that!

The only thing I would say, is that at one time voicing that totally correct opinion would invite retaliation of a physical type from the

27 Meg merchants.

I actually got my licence when the transition was taking place, the two local Post Office enforcement people were very busy and also licensed amateurs. They were grossly overworked!

It seemed that after I got my license the band activity went like a switch, from discussing technicalities on a lot of subjects not purely wireless, to the mundane day to day garbage using language that sounded infantile.

I don't bother now, I haven't renewed the license for decades.

AB From the well pummelled keyboard of Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Esq

[Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp]

Fair play to you!

Long may you continue!

AB

From the well pummelled keyboard of Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Esq

[T i m]

There is ... 'Oh the irony'. Crazy Jim blames the dumbing down of the various licences as a reason that AR was ruined but is doing exactly the same thing to this NG! You really couldn't make it up!

He is acting just like the very CB'ers he tries to hold responsible.

If he got the idea of standards he would realise he was holding at least two of them. ;-)

Cheers, T i m (G7ICW)

[Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp]

I seriously lost touch on the licence changes. I never had a G4, but would have worked toward it, in fact I did! I got up to a terriffic rate of knots without a problem, then tried receiving :-(

I never read the instructions :-)

For my part, I have found him an interesting contributor to the group. I have a feeling we don't always agree, but he is pretty unique.

Not your out of the box and plug in NG contributor :-)

AB From the well pummelled keyboard of Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Esq

[T i m]

Oh, I'm sure he is, if it was either:

On topic

Marked as Off Topic.

I would even ignore his lazy ness re case and his weird punctuation (surely 5 full stops takes longer than one comma) but he seems to think he's funny when he really isn't.

And there is no obligation that you should, here on in the RW but it's obvious that he *enjoys* his trolling and that's the issue.

Well, he's strangely like 'Whisky Dave' ...

No, and we either all agree to say 'to hell' with any of the conventions that have kept Usenet different from most other medium and go the way they have (unusable), become moderated (in which case most of Crazy Jims posts wouldn't get though) or try and protect it if we can?

I've given up now.

Cheers, T i m

[Brian Reay]

You also, falsely, claimed you'd been beaten up and ended up in hospital.

[Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp]

I respect your opinion, but there are a lot that contribute to the NG that fill me with awe by the mere fact that they can use a keyboard.

Anyone capable of maintaining a succession of posts regarding Scottish culinary delicacies is without doubt gifted by anyones standards!

AB From the well pummelled keyboard of Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp Esq

[T i m]

;-)

The irony is that we have a blind user on here who seems to be able to follow the guidelines and respect others ...

Cheers, T i m

[T i m]

Sorry, are you saying you didn't do the video and blame CB'ers (amongst others) for the dumbing down of the RA licences?

Again, are you denying what you yourself said?

Maybe the words mean something else in Scotland?

Cheers, T i m

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

What about the contesters. Are they really not able to voluntarily agree to leave space for existing people who just want to chat? And what is all this

59 when its bleedin obvious they cannot hear the other station well to start with. I was at one time thinking of becoming licensed, but the behaviour of the contesters and the old timers who think they are the law made me just be a listener. Brian

[Stephen Cole]

You wait until you hear Jim?s opinions on men prancing around in their wife?s underwear...