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Re: VHF Field Day Capel Battery, 7th and 8th July
Sorry folks - but that is my 65th birthday weekend !
I shall be up in Shropshire - however, I shall take my FT 817 handheld & will be able to at least report on how the contest activity was in that part of the country (?sobriety permitting ).?
Have a great contest - & I was looking forward to possibly trying moonbounce during set up !. Ian G4UAQ.? |
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Exam results
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The RSGB have informed me that the 6 exam results from Mondays session were passed to Ofcom lunchtime today.? Ofcom process them quite quickly, so they should be available now.
Well done all 6 for passing and thanks to Ian and Trevor for invigilating so well.? Let us know the new callsigns asap. I hope to hear you all on the air soon! 73 Howard G0RJN |
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Mondays Examinations
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Hi All,
1) The RSGB? forgot to include the forms confirming completion of the practical aspects of the Foundation and Intermediate courses. 2)? The forms have been emailed to me via Ian and I will process them and return them to the RSGB. 3) The knock on effect of this is that the exam results will not have been passed to Ofcom yet.? This should happen within 2-3 days. 4) The RSGB have requested the 6 students do not approach Ofcom yet for their licences. 73 Howard G0RJN |
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Re: Update: Olympics Betting restrictions
Sorry Members, I cannot cover it all!
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Re: Update: Olympics Waterborn restrictions
http://nabo.org.uk/issues/other-live-issues/378-more-info-on-olympicparalympic-navigation-restrictions
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Re: Update: Airspace Restrictions
http://olympics.airspacesafety.com/
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Re: Update: Olympics 70cm restrictions
As Club? Chairman i feel it is my responsability to draw attention to this document.? Is there anyone out there who has a day or two to read this in detail.? i have given it a quick glance and come up with the following:
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Ofcom have given themselves the power to prosecute any one causing interfereence at frequencies up to (and probably including) 3000GHz. If anyone can find a better interpretation to this would they please let me know ASAP. G6ALJ Trevor Disclaimer. ???????????????????? The above is only my interpretation of the document and does not in any way reflect theopinions of The Club.
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Update: Olympics 70cm restrictions
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INFORMATION ABOUT BAND RESTRICTIONS DURING THE OLYMPICS
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Re: Hope you all dont mind me posting this Link
Geoff Harris
开云体育No problem Ian – It must be a very worrying time for you both,
especially so for Helen. I pray that she will return safely.
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Geoff
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CRA News March 2012
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How Radio waves are Produced
Today there is a video posted on the Southgate News Forum which seeks to convince us that radio waves are Magnetic in nature & NOT Electromagnetic as we generally accept. Hmmmm ?- ?I shall be interested to hear anybody?else s views after watching it. A good subject for the Club Net ?.?
Ian G4UAQ.? |
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FW: MAIDSTONE Y ARS DRM ACTIONS
开云体育To: hvicary@... Subject: MAIDSTONE Y ARS DRM ACTIONS From: keithlbird@... Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 06:30:13 -0500 Hello Howard, thanks for the warm welcome by club members at the meeting last Monday, I am sorry we over ran but I wanted to be sure and cover all questions that were raised. I did exchange emails with Trevor last Monday, and I trust he has conveyed my thanks to members already.
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I did indeed take away a number of points that I have started to work on, but if you or the members see anything missed off or want to follow-up in the meantime do please let me know.
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The points I have to work on are;
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RSGB Membership.
Keith 2E0KJA, recounted receiving a welcome letter from the RSGB containing details of setting up a Foundation licensee’s station, but that the document contained errors. Is this letter still sent out?
Training and exams. It was reported that MYARS is not listed on the RSGB website under training clubs. Current listing to be checked, and to confirm with club they have received logon account for updating this information.
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The club appears not to have ported their information across onto the new RSGB webpage. Account login details were sent to '22, Plains Ave', late last year. An email is being sent from HQ to Howard with the login details for updating the required information. Action closed.
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Club activity.
The members discussed their contest activity last year, shared with other clubs at Capel-le-Firth. Question raised over RSGB insurance cover for non members attending such events. To confirm the extent of insurance cover.
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Public liability is that for 3rd parties, the RSGB insurance has an extension that covers member to member liability also.?Action closed.
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It was stated that during the 2011 VHF NFD, the station G5LK deliberately interfered with the Maidstone clubs signal by transmitting carriers, because they were using the same locator, correctly.To confirm whether it was reported to the contest adjudicator.
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OFCOM licensing.
Urwin raised the matter of licence revalidation, which he said was confusing on the OFCOM website and appeared not to be working. To confirm if this is a general issue.
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Band interference.
Some members living near to Kent Police HQ in Sutton Rd, Maidstone, reported that broad based interference appears to emanate from their communications centre, and can radiate onto 11m and 2m. Self to raise with?EMC coordinator for comment.
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Email sent to EMC coordinator asking for any information of known cases around such environments, and specific information required to trace and identify these signals.
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Planning control.
Discussion led into suggesting a working party / local club to enter discussions with councils to draft a planning application template, aligned to approved planning consent. Reference was made to believed blanket approval for CB and satellite installations in Suffolk. Does such approval exist?
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Email sent to Suffolk DRM for information about potential approvals that might help amateurs.
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Re: For Information
I agree with you Paul, I was in the cubs and scouts it did me a world of good.
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John G0XJB
From: PAUL AUSTIN To: "g3trf@..." Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2012, 7:15 Subject: Re: [g3trf] For Information ?
Hi One an all
?I would be extreemly upset to see young people removed or have restricted access to the club, and as an RSGB affliated club this would be something society would be very adverse to as it would go against all we are trying to do to grow the hobby.
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?when I joined i was 11, you can now do the foundation at any age, so in reality there should be no minimum age for membership.
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?do not get yourself tied up in child protection issues, they are not a problem and since the relaxtion in the requirements by the safeguarding authority should not be a worry to you.
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?In fact if anything all club should be activly trying to recrute younger members, after all they are very useful at climbing and putting up antennas!
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?I know many parents wont stay wiht their YP, and think about it if you are a 13/14 year old and you want to go an get involved in a club, would you want your mum or dad hanging around with you?
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I know I?dont attend the club on evenings, but I pay my membership as when my kids have grown up, there will still be an active club for me to come back to, and I an fully involved with the scouts at this stage of my life.
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?regards Paul G0AXQ
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To: g3trf@... Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012, 22:46 Subject: [g3trf] For Information ?
> Sent: The Club Has always Previously welcomed Children as members but insisted that they have a parent or guardian with them. Hi Goeff, as i was a member of this club at age 12, i am biased! I was allways made welcome at that age and not thrown out untill at the age of 22 i did a thing for which i could not be forgiven.... I aquired a B LICENSE (I still have it)!!!!! Despite this i feel compelled to offer the same oppertunity to others that was offered to me, and if i don't i will feel a fraud! I feel that this will have to be put to the membership, and if they decide then i will stand by them. If they decide that youth are not welcome I will feel that they have changed the spirit of the club, but that is their right! I hope i do not offend too many people with this attitude, this is not something i am doing to annoy people ( i save that for Ian Hope & Terry), it is just that i wil allways feel that you should do unto others as you would expect them to do to you (unless they are bankers, Planning Officers or MPs). Enough ranting, over to the membership! Trevor G6ALJ (B License, upgraded without consultation). Thoughts as a member not Chairman. 03/04/12 09:32 PM > To: Trevor Collins, hvicary@..., Keith Anderson > Subject: Minimum age for club membership. > > Dear Trevor, Howard and Keith, > > Following on from what Trevor mentioned last week about allowing a 6 & 12-year old into the club, we need a decision about this quite quickly. I am uncertain if we have a minimum age in our constitution, in which case this will be self-evident, but if not then we need to sort this out now. > > Personally speaking, given today's difficult situation regarding child-protection, and bearing in mind that apart from Helen, Ian's XYL (of sorts), we are a bunch of mainly retired-elderly grumpy old men, and I think it will be dangerous to allow kids of that age into the hut. Not only that, but many of the members might stop coming if the hut becomes a child-minders every Friday night; we are not the Cubs or the Scouts, and I feel we should stipulate a minimum age of 16. If we can't reach agreement, then we should ask the members – I think they would not want children around any more than I do. > I have enhanced CRB disclosure for my church duties, but I try not to get involved with youngsters of that age unless I really need to, and even then I make sure I'm never alone; we live in different times to our past, and I think it's hassle we could do without. The MARTS do take 16 year-olds, but they insist they always have one of their parents with them, and we must do the same for the sake of everyone at the club. > > Can you reply ASAP please; we need agreement on this before they suddenly turn up one evening. Keith DRM said he thought that 6 was far too young for many reasons, but we could possibly accept the 12 year-old if we felt happy as a group, but ideally they should be a little older. > > 73 > > Geoff > |
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