Hi everyone nice to see so many old fellas still about. Did wonder about how clive was doing over in wales. Nice to see Keith had the same idea i did, about moving to Halstead, looked at a few places there last year, but still here in pikey land. I am and have been very active on most hf bands, despite removing all my antennas to move house, which didnt happen. Just had a lovely catch-up with GTQ on 40mtrs yesterday. Of course in touch with Lawrie, and almost ended up as full time carer for ULL lol! Poor old fella is not in good health!!. A couple of days ago I did just about get hold of Tony, on 12mtrs ssb/cw on my vertical, but very hard to recieve on my wires. I have seen Tony spotted on RNB and manged to get him to qsy to 30mtrs, but again he was getting me ok with my 180w but his qrp was a "bloody hard signal" to listen too. I really just got bits and bobs of his transmission. I know he was very near to west indies at the time, and him not being on air right now suggests he is now on the Island cycling around Antigua. Maybe he will stilloperate evenings after his return from day trips out on Island... I hope to be on xmas eve as per sked and reminded Peter to do the same. Been chasing the Centenary stations was doing great but now" really really"? struggling to get enough for Silver the award, especially as" I do not, and will no"t do ft whatever as I have my personal views of those modes. Peter has already replaced the HF yagi and? we will intend to repair the vhf/uhf ones, of course we need better weather to get everything back up as was. Greetings to everyone and hope to talk on 40 sked soon with many of you. For those that dont/cant make the sked MERRY CHRISTMAS! ES HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR! G0ujk Colin.
