is there more members in to Amateur radio on fog

is there more members in to Amateur radio on fog :?:

G1AYI Tom---------Tom
G1AYH Adam--------Adam
G0LZX RickY---------ricky-tk
:?:

----------------- pinkfoot

I listen to radio 1 on the way in to work every day....they certainly seem to be amateurs by the quality of their broadcasts!
Do I count then?

Only joking.....used to have a big home cb rig many years ago with burners a half wave dipole, could knock loads of peoples TV's out, but other than the cb in the truck, the marine unit in my boat, and my scanner (interesting stuff sometimes on it) I dont really know too much about it.
Looks interesting though....making stuff that you can transmit all round the world....good stuff
Lots of gadgets and gismos is always good, have got a home recording studio now that is full of knobs and twidley things...

Laters

Gregster

hey me and few a me mates got cb's for the motors for a laugh last year had brill crack used to play fox hunt spent many a night lookin for the fox till 4r5 in the mornin
also have marine vhf licence

post finder is a proper ham radio chap :wink:

I'm thinking about it, but cost seem a little prohibitive at the moment.

I am an authorised use of the MSA Safety & Medical frequency (call sign "Streetly 1"), but that does not count as amateur.

Lawrence

Yup.

M3 VXL (geddit?) usually found on 145.350 on motorsport events around Scotland. My son is M3 RXM.

Like Laurence we are also MSA motorsport licensed - Vulture 20 and 20a.

Come Laurence - it's not that expensive. We do a 1 day foundation course which you should pass, then under £200 for a good set & antenna.

Cheers
Jools

I have wanted to do the novice licence for a while, but finding somewhere to do it, and then the time to do it is a bit of a problem at the moment! :lol:

2E0DMS
taking advanced exam in april

its easy and cheap to get into amateur radio now, with the lo cost vhf/uhf radios for sale putting yaesu and kenwood to shame it's easier than ever...

I kinda dont get it :oops:

Is it like powerful CB's

wow, youll make Jodrell Bank redundant :lol:

I never realised you could do all that

I one M6 NTY :mrgreen:

M3 XNJ with a
http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=Di ... 3A4987523C

G1AYI Tom--------- Tom
G1AYH Adam--------Adam
G0LZX RickY---------ricky-tk
------------------ pinkfoot
M3VXL ------------ Jools
2E0DMS ----------- Dazza
M6NTY ------------- Darren balderson
M3XNJ ------------- Postfinder

is there any more ????

Just got myself a CB. Used to do it a lot when I was younger (before the internet) and got my license, etc.

Good fun, however I can't for the life of me get this new one to work properly :cry:

Its got power, a huge aerial and makes all the right noises but I can't receive or transmit anything. All new gear too.

Any ideas?

Was told I could need aerial tuned, though I doubt this would prevent me receiving anything at all....

I'm also not using a 'clean' +ve power cable, maybe I need a direct feed from the battery?

Hello Tom, names Mick and the callsign is m0avu. QTH is Newcastle on Tyne and have been licenced since 1981. My Frontera 2.0i sport apache is my mobile station. It is fitted with a Yaesu FT900AT on HF feeding into an SGC231 Smartuner and an SGC303 antenna. VHF is Icom IC207H and a Philips FM1000 PMR for backup. Would post a few piccies but don't know how it's done. 73's for now. Mick.

Hi Mick
yes i have a Icom Ic-706MK11 feeding in to a LDG-Z100 auto-atu and a Highlander antenna.
here is a link. how it's do it.
Tom

http://fronteraowners.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5453