Monday the 19th of November 2012 sees another get-together on GB3DA, the local 2 metre repeater for Essex.
As with previous Monday Night Nets, it’s aimed at the new M6 licence-holders, but of course welcome to all.
The attendance list for the evening was as follows:
- M0PSX – Pete in Leigh-on-Sea, in the chair
- G0URK – Joel in Chelmsford (Briefly)
- M6BZS – Ken in Eastwood
- M6EIO – Michael in Colchester
- M0FZW – Norman on Canvey Island
- M6BYF – Dean, Chatham
- 2E1GUA – James in Chelmsford (working on his eQSL cards in the background)
- M0MMB – Mike on Canvey Island
- G1FOA – Peter in Chelmsford
- G0BDY – Gary in Brentwood
- M6KDP – Rob in Maldon
- 2E0TNC – Tom in Tiptree
- G1ILG – Brian in Thaxted
- M0SHQ – Steve in Maldon
- 2E0RMI – Jim in Chelmsford (Happy Birthday Ann!)
- M0IMA – Phil on the QE2 Bridge (briefly)
- 2E0TOL – Spencer in Stanford Le Hope (check out the tower: 2E0TOL on QRZ)
- G0TIW – Tel, Chiltern Hills
The topics discussed tonight included:
- The Miracle Antenna
- How to get yourself onto QRZ – See www.qrz.com/page/addcall.html
- RSGB EGM on Saturday – 79 people turned up, with around 11 from here in Essex
- Looks like we may be able to use the letter “V” to celebrate the RSGB centinery. Looks like we can apply for a notice of variation to get GV, MV or 2V from July 2013, according to RadCom
- Help and advice on programming the Baofeng UV5R: www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-Software.html (Thanks Norman)
- QSL card information: QSL Cards for Foundation
- Ukraine chap who prints QSL cards: www.ux5uoqsl.com
- Programming for various Yaesu rigs: www.g4hfq.co.uk (as used by Norman and Pete)
We wrapped up at 23:40ish…
Got a comment about tonight’s discussion? Please add it below:
Hi Pete
Here is the website for the programming software I mentioned called CHIRP.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home
Hope this helps.
73
Dean