Repeater News

News and update regarding the Snaefell repeaters going back to full power.

Since my last missive there has not been a great deal to report regarding the site – bad weather has really hampered any progress to the amateur repeaters by engineers, and really only emergency repairs and maintenance have been carried out on essential emergency service’s equipment.

Snaefell is a very hostile place in winter, and especially so after the winter we have just had, and no one wishes the safety of engineers to be jeopardised.
However, I have kept a regular communications channel open with the site owners being the Isle of Man government, and I am assured now that our work is “priority one” with them. At present the government are undergoing mast checks on all sites around the island, and I am assured that when this is completed we will be given priority.

I am aware that the work has taken longer than usual to get to this state but we are being subsidised to the value of approximately 8,000.00 pounds sterling by the government to have the facility on Snaefell, so would beg your patients for a little while longer.

W Morgan Griffiths MD0DXW

RSGB Examination Fees to rise!

New examination fees for January 2011 Please note that from 1 January 2011, the new examination fees will be as follows; Foundation £27.50 Intermediate £32.50 Advanced £37.50 RSGB Examinations Department, November 2011.

Responce to the recent post on contest rule changes.

Thanks for the email. The General Rules relating to RSGB contests define "UK" as including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, even though we are aware that they are in fact outside the UK. The RSGB represents amateurs in those islands as well as those in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, so can be said to include anyone whose prefix starts with G, M or 2.

I hope this puts your mind at rest.

73,

Ed Taylor, GW3SQX
Chairman, RSGB Contest Committee

Matty md0man makes a new radio

Start with a bag of parts; build the circuit board; finish the project and you end up with a nice 80mt SSB radio, 5watts.

Well done Matty!

RSGB _ RAYNET Agreement

The RSGB and Raynet (The Network) have signed a new agreement bringing the two organisations into a closer working relationship:

http://www.rsgb.org/news/articlelinks.php?id=0107