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Attachment 585Comrades,

On the back of the antenna plans for the 3 stations that are on the club notice board I have mapped them up (to scale) on the actual plot of land that we have available during our stay. As you can see we have tons of space to play with. Have a look and any comments you have then put em up here or let me know if you see me at the club. In summary if you haven't seen the club notice board - 3 stations proposed:

1. HF daytime = FT-950 ...

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Comrades,

just a point of interest that may get you GM6NX club members interested in chipping in with the 80mm RSGB Club Championships monthly contest. Any club member can take part from their home QTH and the log contributes to the GM6NX running total. Currently we are sitting 51st which is ok considering it's just by operating the GM6NX on the night with no member logs as extras. Many of the clubs must be operating with member logs submitted so it seems like we are missing a trick ...

This looks like just the ticket for the kind of /p operations on Skye and elsewhere in the future.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ANTENNA-TILT-M...item230836b80d

Have a look at the youtube videos of the mast further down the auction page. The 2nd vid had me hangin on to the edge of my seat when he cracks up the 2 element 20m beam. Some bend.......reminscent ...

Good news !! I have finally managed to get in contact with the owner of Portnalong Bunkhouse despite the numerous emails and phonecalls.
Strange how we were talking about it last night in the boozer and then first thing he called me !!

All is ok with our booking. The cheque for our deposit will be winging its way to him early next week.

Game on as before.

J

There's been some discussion about how to decipher what grid locator you are in:

First thing is to grab your house coordinates by doing this if you don't already know them -

To find the coordinates of any location, first search the address in Google Maps and make sure the address is centered. By default, when you do the search, the result is centered. So before doing the next step, don’t move around the map.
Now simply copy and paste the following code into your ...