Grahame Bentley

Or should I say decode. It can't fail to hear me

Acquired an FTM100DE a bit back and now playing with APRS. No probs with receiving the Richmond igate, damned if I can get it to receive me!

@M0VGA yes so I heard. Can't be doin with mainstream #facebook so, unless they have an alternative, I'm off a load of groups!

@Eddie_G0EHV I did that, when mine were about that age. Twas a good day out for us too

@MW0IAN only ever 'done' 4m with one so I don't have a comparison but it seems ok to me and brings all the other 7300 perks

@Wensleydaler nor I. No aerial up and too delicate to go portable. :-( Have hi hopes for next 4m tho!

@g4dbn He was certainly strong. I've been away from UKAC for a few months. It was nice to be back!

Rebuilt the broken 4m/6m duo as a plain 4m yagi yesterday and then did the first half of last night's 4m UKAC. Wkd an HA too!

oo that all brings back memories RT @g4dbn: @Eddie_G0EHV New bit is the shiny fixing plate behind the chuck. [snip] pic.twitter.com/gX3MROOKym

@m0cvo @MU0WLV funnily enough, those of us with bowel cancer don't find a lot of humour in that.

I conclude that news broadcasts have all now turned into rambling self opinionated current affairs programmes and no longer contain any news

@Wensleydaler @G4SJM great night Andy, must have been exciting.

Have you ever called into one of those 80m nets that run a list?

@davidsilkstone @Wensleydaler @morgster_morgan I use a length of ali tube of such a diameter that a whole number of pegs wedge nicely in

@Wensleydaler @davidsilkstone @morgster_morgan tubular crisp containers are a recycling engineer's nightmare, apparently. But I digress.

@GD3YEO nor antennas.... mast lowered and luffed for next couple of days

@morgster_morgan @davidsilkstone @Wensleydaler they did look the bees knees though, full marks for dexterity with a bench grinder.

@davidsilkstone @morgster_morgan @Wensleydaler have to say, I've never had any trouble knocking in the blunt ones. Sorry David.

@MW0IAN yes, exactly like one, but the short leg is under the long leg and the whole is fed throu a 1:1 ferrite cored xformer against ground

Been trying nested inverted Ls. One resonant on 80m nested inside one resonant on 160m, seems to to tune quite well on most other bands.