Practical Wireless Magazine March 2024
English | 72 pages | pdf | 29.08 MB
Here in Somerset at least, the weather has been pretty miserable for much of the winter. High winds blew down my 20m Spiderpole, but fortunately it survived the experience – however, I have yet to put it back up.
And my SteppIR was taken down at my son’s place late last year while he was doing some work close by, and hasn’t gone back up yet because the ground is so waterlogged! Hopefully, all will be put right before too long but only after I get back from East Africa – I will be off in February to join Alan G3XAQ in Uganda for the ARRL CW Contest, and we then travel to Kenya for a ‘CW Dinner’ being organised by Andy 5Z4VJ (G3AB). I hope to be able to report on the trip in due course.
>Ofcom Consultation
As you will see in our Letters pages, I have been taken to task on my interpretation of the rules regarding regional secondary locators (RSLs). I apologise if I have misled you, the readers, but I still find the wording confusing! And Steve G0FUW has told me he has spotted a few inconsistencies and omissions in the wording of the new licence proposals, which he has pointed out to Ofcom. As the leader of the (very successful) Bath Distance Learning courses, Steve is also concerned about the timings of any changes insofar as the training they offer needs to reflect changes to the licence examinations resulting from the new regulations.