XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: AWhitelaw@Usenet-News.NET   
      
   On 28/03/2020 10:24, Jinky ... wrote:   
   > On 28/03/2020 09:45, AndyW wrote:   
   >> On 27/03/2020 14:48, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:   
   >>> On 27/03/2020 07:22, AndyW wrote:   
   >>>> On 17/03/2020 07:44, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> woo hoo every cloud...no more hammy mens for a while...result....   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> I had a Foundation exam scheduled for the 21st with more to follow.   
   >>>> All that is suspended but on the bright side the bands are   
   >>>> positively glowing with QSOs and this lockdown means that I am   
   >>>> getting antennas up and tested. I have a 40m dipole to get up and   
   >>>> tested this weekend.   
   >>>>   
   >>> how tested?   
   >>   
   >> Tested initially with a NanoVNA for swr then with WSPR test for   
   >> propagation. Then just testing by chatting. The CQ world wide WPC   
   >> contest is this weekend so lots of chances for testing.   
   >>   
   >> I have just built and installed a 2m groundplane to keep in touch with   
   >> the club on a nightly net. where I live I cannot hit repeaters so   
   >> until the net 2m has been dead to me as a local band (except for   
   >> satellite)   
   >>   
   >> Andy   
   > thought you weren't licensed ? ....   
      
   Nope.   
   Full licence.   
      
   I think I see the confusion ">>>> I had a Foundation exam scheduled for   
   the 21st with more to follow."   
      
   It's not my exam, I am a trainer so I had a class of novices ready to   
   sit their Foundation on the 21st.   
   I never got the dipole up, I had lent out my drill and may not get it   
   back for a while but I have a 40m end fed that tunes up nicely on a   
   bunch of bands so I spent the weekend dipping in and out of the WPC. .   
   However now that the contest is over and the bands quieten down a bit I   
   will be able to go back to my 10w uBitX again.   
      
   Andy   
      
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