REMEMBER it is club night on Friday 3rd May at the usual place. It is the FIFTH of 2019 so hope you can all make a massive effort to make this a bumper club attendance. It will be fantastic to see you all, regulars, new faces and those who have not been for a while at club night and show that you are still supporting our great club
Thorntree INN, (Lounge Bar),
High Street, Cockenzie, Port Seton. EH32 0DQ
From 19:00 till late
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Our Club financial year (runs from January to December) and if you would like to donate towards the clubs running costs, which is £24 a year then there are different ways to do it.
• Pay via the Paypal Link on the club website (If paying this way then make it £25 to cover the Paypal costs, thanks
• Donation of £2 at every club night
• Donation at any time.
Many thanks in advance for supporting the club it is so much appreciated
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Apr 29
2019 APRIL Club Night Friday 3rd May 19:00 to late
- By Bob GM4UYZ in News
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18 hours ago Proposed Licence Changes announced by OFCOM EMF website.... Unbelievable. What a farce. I'd like to see all interested licensees bombard OfCom with changes to their circumstances on a regular basis, to the point that the workload of administering this becomes unmanageable. Unfortunately I cant see this happening. Pardon me for being thick, but what is this relating to? From what I can determine, is we need to confirm to legislation on interference?
Perhaps a good subject for a Friday night chat from Uncle Bob BEM This is what happens when you platform anti-science woo. What an absolute heap of BS. Copy of spreadsheet on emf page - looks like I need to get tower up higher 2m I need 60m separation from friends and family - bugger for portable when it comes back lots of warning tape appropriate distance from ant. I have no clue what I'm supposed to do but if members of the public are within 6.3m of my radiation source they are trespassing and or 2/3 of the way up my mast 🤣 More crap to be chucked in the "snowflake file" (bin) 11-99W the spreadsheet says 3.18m for 15MHz. My property is 6.3m wide and I'm not allowed a mast or anything. Have written to RSGB for advice on whether to make a representation, and for clarification on exactly what measurements are required. Their guidance actually contradicts the policy - policy says if your licence permits >10W tx then you must meet the requirements... guidance says you can avoid the requirements by not transmitting more than 10W... so perhaps they will allow me a magloop or something, as long as I orient it N-S. Also, we'll all be limited to about 10W on 70cm and 2m in the car, and unable to use HF more than 10W (assuming that 10W guidance remains in place) since most cars are only 2m wide - and then you need to make sure the antenna is in the middle... Bums! Stinky dog bums! As far as I can see, if you declare you’re using low power, you are exempt? Is that correct? If all it takes is to declare that you're running low power, I'll just do that. 4 days ago CLUB NIGHT 5th MARCH 2021 – DUE TO COVID IT IS A VIRTUAL MEETING from 19:00 onwards 4 days ago Kurt has been at it again .. here's another great CW practice video. Very handy if you're working through the CW training with Bob. Have a rummage through his YouTube channel if you find these useful as he has LOADS on there. ... See MoreSee Less Top 100 Words Speed-Racing - 20wpm youtu.be 4 days ago I'm hearing JA on the long path, type the guys callsign into QRZ and you get this Same with FY5KE in French Guiana so I'm not even gonna bother calling him. Now hearing Namibia on 15m but he's only looking for Frenchmen. Some years ago, I was stoked. My first PSK31 contact, 5w on a Hustler 6BTV with crap radials.
Eritrea, I had to look up na atlas to see where Eritrea is 😂.
Made everything better, never made a contact that far for years 🙄 4 days ago Uh oh !!!! Deef Auld Duffers on 3.760 and Deef French Auld Duffers on 3.761. Oh, its starting, "I've just been up and told him the frequency is in use so that should be that" Some one else "I've just been up 1 to these bloody Frenchmen, I didn't actually ask them to move, I just gave them a few overs of a digital mode" Another bloke" Ah, I've got a problem with my radio, nothing displaying or working on the front of the radio, it works ok with Ham Radio Deluxe". His Deef Auld pal, "ahhh, the 7300, brilliant radio, I've got one too, I can't hear you on it but you're 5/9 on Hack Green".
** Everyone should have received this email **
Dear Licence Holder,
We are writing to make you aware of some important changes that we are proposing to make to your Wireless Telegraphy Act licence(s) issued by Ofcom.
In February and October last year, we issued two public consultations on our proposal to formally require licensees to comply with the internationally agreed levels in the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) Guidelines for the protection of the general public from electromagnetic fields (EMF). We refer to these levels as the ICNIRP general public limits. In October, we also issued a Statement setting out our decision to formally require licensees to comply with the ICNIRP general public limits and we recently published an update on how we propose to implement that decision.
We are now writing to you to inform you of our proposal to vary the terms and conditions of your licence(s) to require you to comply with the ICNIRP general public limits. In accordance with the Wireless Telegraphy Act and your licence(s), we are giving you notice of our proposal by publishing a General Notice on our website.
We’ve put all the relevant information about our proposal including the General Notice on a dedicated EMF webpage ofcom.org.uk/emf. Here you will find details of the licence variation process alongside the background to the changes and lots of FAQs to help you understand what our proposal means for you.
If, after reading the above information, you wish to make a representation to Ofcom in relation to our proposal to vary your licence(s), you have up until the 18 April 2021 to do so. However, if you do not wish to make a representation you do not need to take any action at this time. More information on the representation process can be found by visiting the Ofcom EMF webpage.
We will consider all representations before coming to a final decision on the variation of your licence(s). We will publish our final decision on the EMF page of our website by 18 May 2021. We will explain whether we have decided to vary your licence(s) to include the EMF condition. If your licence(s) has been varied we will send you an update of it or information on where a new version can be obtained from.
In future we intend to make greater use of General Notices published on our website and may not individually contact you to inform you that we have published one. We would therefore urge all licensees to regularly check the Ofcom website or subscribe to email spectrum updates by going to the following page on our website ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/email-updates.
If you have any questions about this change and what it means for you, further information can be found on the dedicated EMF webpage using the address provided above.
Yours faithfully,
Ofcom ... See MoreSee Less
It is the Third Club Night of 2021 and as we are still unable to meet up Face to Face due to the Coronavirus, so it will be another virtual club meeting using ZOOM. I will open a ZOOM session for 19:00 on Friday 5th March and the link for access is as below. We can give it a try say for 1 hour or so and if successful again we could hold further Virtual Club Meetings in the future until we can once again meet Face to Face. I think this is better than nothing.
Join Zoom Meeting – Click on the link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5118594062/…
Meeting ID: 511 859 4062
Passcode: 763211
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CLUB FINANCES
Our New Club financial year for 2021 has started (runs from January to December) and if you would like to donate towards the clubs running costs, which is £24 a year then there are different ways to do it. Normal club night the donation is £2 or whatever you wish to donate. (Must admit the Annual Payment helps me enormously, GM4UYZ)
Remember our Club Ethos is “would you like to donate” so it is up to you, but all the money goes to help pay for club expenses throughout the year.
Payments can be via the following methods:
• Pay via the Paypal Link (Large Orange DONATE Button) by clicking on this on the club website and what you put in goes direct to a PayPal Pool that has been set up and the beauty of this that there is no additional payment to PayPal
• Cash – You can put this via my door in an envelope (Remember to add your name on the envelope)
• Cheque – Payable to Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club. Send to my home address Can be found on QRZ.com
• Bank Transfer – Contact me direct via text, messenger, phone or email and I will give you the Sort Code and Account Number.
Many thanks for supporting the Radio Club throughout these difficult times it is so appreciated.
Look forward to “Seeing” you on Friday
Bob GM4UYZ ... See MoreSee Less
"This callsign does not participate in the QRZ Logbook (3)"
Bummer !! ... See MoreSee Less
Waiting to hear the carnage when they actually start hearing each other.
"We've been on this frequency for the past 10 years you cheese eating surrender monkey !!" ... See MoreSee Less