Earlier this year, before the country went insane again, we managed to have a holiday in Southport. I love Southport. It has just enough junk shops to keep me happy, but not so many that I get Junk Shop Fatigue. Anyway, I was enticed into one by an old GPO telephone in the window, but ended up buying this instead:
Behold, the Midland 98 Plus.
Recently I got utterly titsed off with my ISP denying that there was a problem with my connection. At certain times every day, my connection would drop, I would ring them up, and they would claim there wasn’t a fault.
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My stupid antenna project started life as a 2M Project kit from Hamtronics. You can buy one if you go to their site.
As I work in a job which is overseen by the local Borough Council, I thought it might be a good idea to work out exactly what their area of remit was, as sometimes they don’t seem to know.
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Its been a bit of a sparse year for visiting places, what with the Covid-19 thing going on, but we did manage to get to the RAF Museum at Cosford.
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Since I passed my Amateur Radio Foundation Exam a couple of months ago – mainly thanks to the excellent course run by Essex Ham (yes, I am aware that I live quite a way from Essex, but that does not matter) – I’ve been using the two local repeaters:
If you’ve ever wondered what the current boundary for the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency is, well I’ve made a map thing for you.
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Currently my Amateur Radio transmitters and recievers are Baofeng UV-5Rs.
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After getting utterly fed up with the antenna that came with my CRT One-N, I did what any sensibe person would do: I asked a mate what he was using on top of his Discovery. The answer: Thunderpole Orbitor.
When I first got back into radio, in October ’19, I decided to start off with a package deal, figuring that I’d start with something basic, and upgrade as required. So I went for a CRT One-N and bundled antenna.
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