Radio Amateurs

fireman328 · 13-05-2005, 09:19

I know this has been asked before but I think it was some time ago.
Who is a licenced amateur on the forum ?
I have a G8 callsign but am not very active.

zoombini · 13-05-2005, 13:17

I was a G7 upto about 15 years ago.
I'm still thinking about reapplying for my license.

Maybe when I have my loft den finished & space for the radios to be got out of storage.

13-05-2005, 13:22

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Originally Posted by fireman328

I know this has been asked before but I think it was some time ago.
Who is a licenced amateur on the forum ?
I have a G8 callsign but am not very active.

Current G1 callsign, although I'm rarely on.
I have Yeasu FT208 and 408 handhelds for those occasions when I am.

Millay · 13-05-2005, 14:04

hmm whats the difference with the precediing number ie g0 as i have a customer whos call sign starts as g0...

Many thanks..

13-05-2005, 14:37

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Originally Posted by Millay

hmm whats the difference with the precediing number ie g0 as i have a customer whos call sign starts as g0...

Many thanks..

Once upon a time, many eons ago, the number related to the 'class' of licence. Back then G8 or G6 was a B-class licence, and G4 was A-class licence. Then they ran out of numbers and started with G1 for B-class licences etc. (I actually had a G5 licence originally, but that got changed when they reallocated the G5 series.)

Now the licence structure is completely different, and we have new 'M' callsigns etc.

http://www.r-clarke.org.uk/hamfaq1.htm#callsign

Matth · 13-05-2005, 22:59

Lapsed G0, and had a G8 before that...

Just saw the new licence structure on that site - what a stupid, half-baked idea the morse assessment is - I did the morse, to the ful 12wpm required to get my class A, and then dropped it - never touched a key after that!

Morse test was easier than I thought, though the receiving test piece was a gift, as it happened to be about something I knew, so I could use a lot more context correction than otherwise.

**Russ** · 14-05-2005, 16:17

Ahh, the good old "breaker breaker one-nine" people

Roy MM · 14-05-2005, 16:31

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Originally Posted by Russ D

Ahh, the good old "breaker breaker one-nine" people

think that was just CB radio Russ not am radio, had a G8 till i was caught using an illegal amp (wellie) had my equipment siezed and licence revoked, silly me

**Russ** · 14-05-2005, 16:37

Yeah I know, I'm just in a wind-up mood today

From my CB radio experience the easiest way to wind up a radio ham was to tell them that "it's all the same thing"

It always seemed like radio amateurs were extremely paranoid of being banded togather with those lowly CBers

Roy MM · 14-05-2005, 16:43

I still have one lying around somewhere a Rotel side band rig, but no aerial now.

**Russ** · 14-05-2005, 16:45

I loved my old Rotel 240, basically a cybernet circuitboard. CEPT added of course

But for sidebanding, you couldn't really beat a Cobra 148 mark 2

**Paul M** · 14-05-2005, 16:47

Wow, how to take a topic "off topic"

Superstar 2000 - the best.

**Russ** · 14-05-2005, 16:51

The Superstar 2000 and Cobra 148 were exactly the same though weren't they? Only cosmetic differences?

And seeing as most had an EpRom chip added to give them super-lo to super-hi (super-hi stretching over to amateur channels) it's not really all that far off topic

zoombini · 14-05-2005, 20:02

I prefered the Ham international range, I could work wonders with those PLL02A chips

**Russ** · 14-05-2005, 20:19

Mmmmm, Ham International Jumbo, I loved that rig! The only thing I found with those machines was the audio on FM was ropey at best - you really needed a quality mic to be heard well. The Uniden boards (Cobra, President, Superstar etc) had such sweet audio though