Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Other Hobbies and Interests => Topic started by: rktompsett on December 29, 2011, 12:51:11 pm
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Robert K. Tompsett - N8JUQ
Extra Class, VE
Kenwood TS 590, 20m inverted V
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Hi Robert and welcome to the Mayhem!
I know nuffink about Amateur Radio... or professional radio come to that... what do your denotations mean?
N8JUQ
Extra Class, VE
Kenwood TS 590, 20m inverted V
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Hi Robert and welcome to the Mayhem!
I know nuffink about Amateur Radio... or professional radio come to that... what do your denotations mean?
N8JUQ
Extra Class, VE
Kenwood TS 590, 20m inverted V
At a guess...
N8JUQ...callsign
Extra Class VE...?
Kenwood TS590...All band rx/tx
20m inverted V...an aerial strung in the shape of an inverted V for the 20m band.
Just a guess...
Rich
26DI22, ex 45metre + 25mHz-29mHz pirate.
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:-))
welcome Robert, correct me please if I am wrong
N8*** is your home callsign, the N designated identifier (one of several used for the USA.
(The first 1 or 2 letters (sometimes numbers) identify the home country of operation, in your case representing the Extra level.)
The VE is for operation in Canada,
The rest tells those in the know what equipment and antenna aerial you use.
Maybe meet you on the air sometime!
Rex
G0CLR or if mobile in Scotland GM0CLR/M
0 is full license for world wide comms using HF
Aerials for all bands TX/RX FT897 or FT 857
QRV (operational) on voice SSB/FM, RTTY,SSTV and occasionally PSK31.
Instructor for Norwich Amateur Radio Club.........
www.norfolkamateurradio.org
73 hny
Rex
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G0PAH not a Pirate had the brains to pass a test so knew How to operate safely and within the LAW.
Peter
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Partly correct: N is the United States as well as A, K, W; 8 is my home region (Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia) I live in Michigan. JUQ is the Federal Communication Commission assigned call. The EXTRA is my level of operating privilege, and VE is short for Volunteer Examiner. I can sign off on new applicant's exams.
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Partly correct: N is the United States as well as A, K, W; 8 is my home region (Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia) I live in Michigan. JUQ is the Federal Communication Commission assigned call. The EXTRA is my level of operating privilege, and VE is short for Volunteer Examiner. I can sign off on new applicant's exams.
do you still have the Morse exam over there ?it has been droped over hear, so now even an idiot could get a full licence, I had to give up because of health reasons RF and new full paced pacemaker don't mix.
Peter
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Nope ! No code world wide. Ironically Ham's here, are learning code now that it is not required for the fun of it, and maybe a challenge, because they want to, not because they have to.
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G4UBM had it for some time now (G4 useless brainless and mindless) my old callsign was G6MME not very active now was at one time , used the key quite a lot still have a paddle key somewhere about the place and still have my HF and 2Metre sets .
Cheers All
Bob
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G0PAH not a Pirate had the brains to pass a test so knew How to operate safely and within the LAW.
Peter
Do I take it that you're not impressed with radio pirates then, HS93? I did have the brains to pass a test, I did operate safely, but not within the law admittedly. I used 26/27mHz SSB for years before migrating to 6.6mHz...the 27mHz band was starting to fill up with all sorts of idiots, hence the move in frequencies.
Rich
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You got it in one , I class them the same as people who say they are a good driver but drive without a license or insurance, as for some of the bands you admit to what was one using the emergency band for transatlantic Aircraft, that is up to your conscience, it's like the pirates who jam the ambulance service.
but you know my feelings on this you have had a go about this befor.
Peter
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Quite true, I believe we did cross swords about this before...but fear not chap, I gave all that up years ago.
73's
Rich
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When you say "pirates" , are you talking about the illegal music stations or pirate Amateur Radio users?
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I was a pirate radio user Martin...when the whole CB thing started off over here, I was on 27mHz AM, then progressed to 27mHz SSB (single side band...like the old split frequency), then onto 6.6mHz.
Started off with a Colonel FR360...
(http://s17.postimage.org/sjyym321n/images_1.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/sjyym321n/)
Then progressed to a Cobra 148GTL-DX...
(http://s13.postimage.org/hnbf2jjeb/Cobra_148_GTL_DX_004.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/hnbf2jjeb/)
And then onto a Yaesu FT-707...this was set up at home with a Yaesu power amp and a 3 element Yagi beam aerial on a rotator on the roof of my house.
(http://s15.postimage.org/4lubqfkef/Yaesu_FT_707_sized.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/4lubqfkef/)
(apologies to HS93, he'll be having kittens at this....)
Rich
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That Yaesu FT-70 looks like the very CB radio I had!
... I was a good legal boy! :P
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The Yaesu isn't a CB radio, Martin..it is a 'proper' amateur radio, covering 0-30mHz. At the time I bought mine it was about the most coveted radio you could buy, I did many hours overtime to find the cash for it. I think I paid around £350 for mine from an amateur radio shop up on the A23 outside Brighton. I don't know how much they cost nowadays, I dread to think how much!
'er indoors had another Colonel FR360 in her works van, complete with a Zetagi 400watt power amp...she could chat all over the world whilst doing her deliveries. The Cobra 148GTL-DX was set up in the car with the same power amp, and an Oscar 11 metre aerial.
They were good days, despite what people thought of us 'pirates'...talking to people world wide. You could chat to the truckers in the US of A...if you could understand the lingo!
Rich
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I too was a pirate in the good old days of 27mhz AM....
I had straight 40, upper 40, lower 40, SSB and very often used to talk to American truckers, even tractor drivers.
Busby in his yellow van was the bad guy, causing countless CB'ers to hide their rigs in holes in the garden wrapped in tin foil.... {-)
I owned countless mobile rigs and quite a few home-bases, President Jackson being just one of them. CB was extremely popular at the time and there were clubs just about everywhere, we had treasure hunts, meetings with other clubs, days out at the highest points in the area, setting up base stations and burners in the hope of getting some good QSLs from around the world, in other words it was FUN.....
Totally ruined of course when it went to FM....and the kids took over.... :((
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Came out of the Navy with a G6RNK callsign
Had been radiating on Hi Lo Med USB SSB
Known around town as the Rig Doctor
Fitting expanders, amps and all sorts of burners.
Never joined the RSGB (Radio Society of Good Buddies)
I always thought the airwaves within the allocated bands should be free to all.
Ned
PS
Back in the early 60's a motorbike test on a bantam allowed me to ride a featherbed 600 straight after.
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Someone pointed this out to me.
Keep it legal lads, my and someone else's life depends on us being legal! :police:
http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/court_other.htm
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/pstats/prosecution_stats
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I can guess who pointed it out to you Martin..... %)
But I am talking 35 years ago....not nowadays........ %)
I have absolutely no idea what the state of CB radio is in this modern world, and don't wish to.....
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I was a pirate radio user Martin...when the whole CB thing started off over here, I was on 27mHz AM, then progressed to 27mHz SSB (single side band...like the old split frequency), then onto 6.6mHz.
Started off with a Colonel FR360...
(http://s17.postimage.org/sjyym321n/images_1.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/sjyym321n/)
Then progressed to a Cobra 148GTL-DX...
(http://s13.postimage.org/hnbf2jjeb/Cobra_148_GTL_DX_004.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/hnbf2jjeb/)
And then onto a Yaesu FT-707...this was set up at home with a Yaesu power amp and a 3 element Yagi beam aerial on a rotator on the roof of my house.
(http://s15.postimage.org/4lubqfkef/Yaesu_FT_707_sized.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/4lubqfkef/)
(apologies to HS93, he'll be having kittens at this....)
Rich
Rich 27/28 ssb does not worry me it is legal in most parts of the EU why they have never brought it to the UK I don't know, it would have solved a lot of problems, TV eye is not a problem these days with digital cable and sky so burners are not a problem with me either. having good radio's lessens the chance of being off freq so I have no problems with them either.
peter
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just a note to say hi - recently joined
73
MW0CQU
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The Yaesu isn't a CB radio, Martin..it is a 'proper' amateur radio, covering 0-30mHz. At the time I bought mine it was about the most coveted radio you could buy, I did many hours overtime to find the cash for it. I think I paid around £350 for mine from an amateur radio shop up on the A23 outside Brighton. I don't know how much they cost nowadays, I dread to think how much!
'er indoors had another Colonel FR360 in her works van, complete with a Zetagi 400watt power amp...she could chat all over the world whilst doing her deliveries. The Cobra 148GTL-DX was set up in the car with the same power amp, and an Oscar 11 metre aerial.
They were good days, despite what people thought of us 'pirates'...talking to people world wide. You could chat to the truckers in the US of A...if you could understand the lingo!
And destroy many Radio control models at the same time, interfere with TV reception and local radio, how do I know? because all these things happened to us! then we had to buy expensive new radios on 35 Fm so as to continue with our legal Hobby while the CBers ( CB is short for Childish Babblers.) continued doing their adult " Breaker Breaker , how do you copy , 10 4?"
Rich
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I still have my FT707 it still works well and I have have a Fm board fitted realy need a new PSU for it
Cheers
G4UBM ( useless brainless and mindless )
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After replying to this Thread I remembered when our local Flying Club was almost closed because of the stupid actions of CBers, On sunday mornings when we were flying they would drive out to our field, staying far enough away so we could not catch them and when some models were flying would go thru the frequencies until they were able to shoot one down, the crash wa sgreeted with much horn hooting and arm waving, We had a member whose brother in law was working for Deutsche Tele Com. They set a trap one siunday, with a detector van and the local police alerted, we sent up the models, the CBs were switched on, models crashed, Police drove up and got 3 CBers, As the Radios were illegal, they were confiscated, there and then. Summonses were issued, the fines were about 100 pounds per vehicle, Then came the Civil summonses, lost models, valued and damages levied, Came out at around 900 pound a model, We had no more problems with CBers, but we still had to buy new radios for safety as the No Brainers didn't realise the danger of a fly away model
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Surprised that EU legislation didn't allow them to sue you for infringing their human rights %)
Regards Ian
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Its only UK that takes any notice of Strasboug.
France, Germany et al take no notice of EU rules when it suits them
not to comply.
Ned
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The club and the incident I referred to took place in Germany, Here they don't muck about!