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Martin Brown All Messages By This Member #8 开云体育 As far as I was led to believe GHN was the next available callsign when we applied for the call back in 1900 and frozen to death.? There were no vanity callsigns and you could only reserve a call if its issuing was imminent (CAR was long gone).? G8GHN was applied for when most of the new members got Amateur Sound licence B calls but of course these weren’t proper licences since you hadn’t done the one year CW only stint and been inspected by the Post Office Inspector (Mr Smith in S E London). ? Regards Martin G0DCG ex-G8AQD ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: lawrence atkinson Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 23:48 To: g3ghn@groups.io Subject: Re: [g3ghn] Initial mail- update ? T ?
Bob Hammond G4DBW All Messages By This Member #11 Hello Martin, Hope you are well down on Romney Marsh.? Often wondered who were the original founding members of CARS? ?? I remember Bill Martin G3FVG and Cyril Bullivant G3DIC, who would have been licensed at the time. Hearsay tales of? the club originally taking part in field days from Mountsfield Park come to mind.? I was one of the "new members" with a "B"? licence when G8GHN appeared - must have been around 1973. Thoughts were that it was mainly used for VHF field days - to allow the B licensees to focus on 144 and up ,? with the A licensees in the 70MHz? tent.? My memory fails me when trying to recall what (if any) vhf gear there was at 225 New Cross Road. Memories are of a homebrew topband transmiitter and the B40 receiver which fed a long wire down the garden , but as to operating on VHF from 225 it's all a blank. Only lasted about 12 months as a "B" licensee as Harry G3UAD took me under his wing and taught me CW with the help of a homebrew code practice oscillator constructed by Gordon Sweet. By 1974 the compulsory 12 months CW only stint had been replaced by a one off? 12wpm test , in my case at GPO HQ in Central London.? I became a new fangled "G4"? licensee considered by some as nearly as competent as a real G3 Radio Amateur? :-) :-) My old original G8 call lives on after i reapplied fro it a few years ago? and occasionally give it an airing.? 73 Bob G4DBW (and G8HBA)
Martin Brown All Messages By This Member #12 开云体育 Dear Bob ? Thank you for your e-mail: I must admit I haven't thought about these matters for some time. A quick look into the archives shows them to be incomplete. I get back to AGM minutes 1954. I do know that when I joined the Clifton in the mid 60's it was the stuff of legend even then. The club was founded by members, some of whom were members of the International Shortwave League, who started the meetings at Clifton School, Clifton Rise, New Cross hence the club name but they only stayed for six weeks. One member got them the rent on 225 New Cross Road (they were rent controlled tenants) which is how they stayed there until vandalized out in the early 80's My membership lasted until I went to University in 1968 and encompassed me getting the G8AQD call. Field days were down in Kent, Wrotham Hill, Crockham Hill and Whitehorse Farm, Shoreham. I remember there was rivalry between the a clique of members that hailed from the Beckenham area most of whom worked at Muirheads. Quite a number of members didn't have callsigns Gordon Sweet, Norman Moore, Reg Hinton Dave Reed, etc. I've still got the crystal controlled AM 70cm Tx that Dave built. My return to amateur radio was in the early 80's having been made redundant I needed a hobby to lift my spirits. It was the time of CB 27/81 but when I went to the Post Office to get the license the regulations were so restrictive it prompted me to get my old call back. By that time Arthur Gould (Jakey) G3JKY was chairman and we met in the pub at the top of Clifton Rise. B Licensees were allowed 2m and you bought a Japanese multi-mode. DF competitions were on 2m FM in cars around Kent. One amusing anecdote was Bill Martin's account of his station inspection by Post Official Mr Smith (who was apt to be all pee and importance) who asked Bill how he rotated his beam antenna. Straight faced Bill replied “ The Armstrong Method”. Mr Smith duly wrote it down on the inspection form. Hey ho! They were the days. Hope you are keeping well Best 73's Martin G0DCG ? ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? ?

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