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spuddevans:

--- Quote from: AussieJimG on December 02, 2013, 03:14:54 PM ---That's a nice neat job Tim, did you weld the corners of the front and back panels?

Jim

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Thanks Jim, the case was just bent, the corners were then lightly persuaded into a closed condition with a short length of 20mm brass bar, actually left a nicer finish than I thought it would.

--- Quote from: Jonny on December 02, 2013, 03:28:40 PM ---Nice job you can make one for me.

Valve jobby would have been nice, bbc quality.

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Yea, valves would be much prettier, but a little more expensive and a little higher voltage than I am totally comfortable with!!

--- Quote from: John Rudd on December 02, 2013, 03:42:21 PM ---Nice job Spud.....

quite into ham radio myself from time to time, although I'm not licensed....2m is fun ....

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Thanks John,

Getting licensed is much easier than it used to be, many club's run Foundation courses (the 1st stage of the license process) that are run over a weekend (Our's run it on a fri eve and all day saturday, exam saturday eve and you get told there and then whether you've passed) Then that gives you a callsign and all amateur frequencies are usable, the only limiting factor is the max power, which for Foundation Licence holders is 10watts er. If 10 watts doesn't seem much, I've had a contact from Northern Ireland to Canada on 10Watts.

--- Quote from: raynerd on December 02, 2013, 03:50:13 PM ---Nice Tim. What kit is this?

I've been meaning to get another rig setup after selling my stuff over a year ago.

Chris

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Thanks Chris,

This is the kit from http://cqbitx.blogspot.co.uk/ (although it is a .co.uk address, he's based in India)

The multiband that I am now working on is an improved design of the Bitx, supplied by DXkits.com , they also have a very useful yahoo group http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/G6LBQ

Tim

John Rudd:
Tim,
Lots of info there, thanks

Btw, pm sent re licensing

Jonny:
Times have changed quite a lot Tim, remember taking Part 1 and Part 2 plus the now dropped morse I think at 11 wpm.
Looks like an intensive course over two days against many months at 3hrs per night once per week then add on the morse training.
Not a clue with transistors hence no good with Part 2.

spuddevans:

--- Quote from: Jonny on December 03, 2013, 08:31:29 PM ---Times have changed quite a lot Tim, remember taking Part 1 and Part 2 plus the now dropped morse I think at 11 wpm.
Looks like an intensive course over two days against many months at 3hrs per night once per week then add on the morse training.
Not a clue with transistors hence no good with Part 2.

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It has changed since those days Jonny, but I think it is better to get more young ones into the hobby. The Morse test has been dropped altogether, it is totally optional.

Some clubs do take a few weeks, just a couple of hours one evening a week for the foundation course, but our club (Shameless plug alert - www.muarc.com ) finds that it works best for us doing it as a Friday Eve + all day Saturday course, keeps it fresh in mind for the exam on Saturday Eve. We've had a couple of 10-12yr olds take the course and pass, and soon the club is going to run a course for a local scout troop.

The 2nd stage (the Intermediate) is a lot more information, and much more practical stuff too, our club runs it over 8-10 weeks, one evening a week, and does have more electrical theory in it, but all the information is both covered in the course and also is in the book.

The 3rd stage (Advanced/Full Licence) is much more electronic theory based, but builds on what was covered in the Intermediate course. I ended up doing all 3 stages one after the other in fairly close succession so as to keep the previous course's info in mind. (I've forgotten most of it now)

I totally recommend to anyone to give it a try, the 1st stage (the foundation) is not that hard, and even if you don't use it, the licence and callsign stay yours (you just have to login to Ofcom and confirm your address details once every 5yrs to keep your callsign)

Just go for it.

Tim

modeng200023:
Tim,
I didn't know that you had to inform OFCOM every 5 years.

I'll have a go and see if they still recognise me as G4LRX.
I've been QRT for a while but want to keep my license alive just in case I need it.

As you will realise I took the morse test, a bit stressful.
Just for background info, I started with G6ABA/T, then G8APC and finally my full license.

John

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