OT: Save the planet - leave the car at home - travel by train. Not.
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:25:09 +0000
Yours for ¡ê1,000: a return ticket to the Kyle of Lochalsh....
...with an extra ¡ê43 for a sleeper.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/yours-for-1631000-a-caribbean-cruise-or-a-return-ticket-to-the-kyle-of-lochalsh-1814184.html
...though a Saver Return booked in advance is 'only' ¡ê561.
You cou ...
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voice powered radio
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:42:38 +0000
Found on the AM Forum.
Occasionally in ham radio, there a few things that turn up now and
again that make my jaw drop- this is one of them.
Http://mjrainey.googlepages.com/elsilbo
"This double-sideband (DSB) radiotelephone transmitter is powered
entirely by the instantaneous (not stored) energy produced ...
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OT - El presidente
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:09:43 +0000
I see Mandy says he's right behind Blair...
A little worrying for Cherie I would have thought. ...
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New event on Facebook
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:06:37 -0800 (PST)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=166253622529 ...
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FL exam ....
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:50:27 GMT
I see people sitting the FL will soon be allowed to use the internet during
the "exam" ....... you couldn't make it up .....
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Locator library for software authors
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:41:54 -0000
Hello to yourselves. I'm a programmer of some years and it is my intention
to write a bit of logging software but I desire it to calculate distances
from locator squares as SD and the like do. The problem is that I've no idea
of the formulae behind locator squares. If anyone knows the formulae or
knows where ...
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So how come....
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:41:48 GMT
I just booked return to Heathrow on BA for two weeks time and it cost about
the same as the price of petrol to drive to London...and it is about the
same price as Easyjet to some God forsaken airport near London paying for
all their extras? .... what's the snag...I don't see one apart from the
fact it might ...
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Wlat's SOTA
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:50:35 +0000
Now 732nd equal in the World
206th equal in G
Top ten in Tewkesbury.
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Visit the Amazing Online Fleamarket at http://www.fleamarket.org.uk
Always lots of amateur radio gear!
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HARRIS RF355 amplifier question
Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:39:36 +0100
Dear Friends,
I've a friend who own in his amplifier collection an HF Amplifier from
HARRIS model RF355 and he's trying to locate the information concerning the
commands to be sent over the serial RS232 line to pilot the antenna tuner
automatically.
This kw HF amplifier was initially design to follow an HARR ...
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Re: RSGB makes it to El Reg
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:32:03 +0000
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:17:26 +0000, Ian Jackson
<ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>With the old RAE - before the days of the Class-B licence - there was no
>point in applying for a licence before you had passed your morse test.
There is no real reason why what now passes for an RAE, should not be ...
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