Hi there, Thanks for all the replies....I will be in the Roscoff area from next Tues 19th till Sun 24th - I should be able to give a few hours notice , or the evening before. - I imagine early PM

Alan I can go portable on a number of sites on the west Dorset coast with excellent take offs towards Brittany. Can go out most afternoons and evenings given a few hours warning. Ed G3VPF

DNS servers interpret the domain name you enter into its numerical equivalent. They may vary in speed as others have found, and they may also exhibit other undesirable features. A few months back I

Hi Alan – I’m also fairly near the South Coast and happy to go out /p to work you. A few hours notice would be good J 73 Noel – G8GTZ

GE All Hope to be QRV on 24 and 76 GHz on Sunday, from usual QTH - Brown Clee IO82QL. 24 Ghz gear is a complete rebuild - so looking for a 'first' with it. The 76GHz station

GE All Hope to be QRV on 24 and 76 GHz on Sunday, from usual QTH - Brown Clee IO82QL. 24 Ghz gear is a complete rebuild - so looking for a 'first' with it. The 76GHz station

GE All Hope to be QRV on 24 and 76 GHz on Sunday, from usual QTH - Brown Clee IO82QL. 24 Ghz gear is a complete rebuild - so looking for a 'first' with it. The 76GHz station

Hi All, Just for info, I am on Virginmedia and was waitingages for the Yahoo page to load, changed the DNS as suggested and all iswell, now back to normal.... many thanks, Mike G6TRM

Seems to work OK On this XP machine. I never had too much trouble anyway with the Yahoo Groups pages I visit from tine-to-time, ie UKUwaves and RSGBTech. Other groups, however, did take a long time

OpenDNS is perhaps a better option than Google DNS, but the principle is the same. The link below is very comprehensive. If you can amend your own PC settings, just set the DNS server

It’s done in the PC’s network adapter settings and so will apply to any browser you use – see http://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/ for

How and where do we do this : In Chrome ? In IExx ? In PC Setup ? Andy G4JNT

Hi Alan, That’s exactly the effect I had and is, as Murray comments, probably due to the BT DNS servers taking a very long time to find the Yahoo Ad and image servers – try changing the DNS on

Hi Noel an interesting comment. I am on the BT server for mail (not BT-Yahoo) I find the on any group web-site the initial welcome page (with a blank picture) appears immediately ....that says not a

I'm on the south coast (Southampton) and would be up for a go dependant on work and other commitments. John

Hi Folks, Just to say I am taking my smaller DGU 3cm system [about 2w] and a Panel antenna over to Brittany from next Monday....I will be staying around the Roscoff area on the border of IN78 and

Glad to be of help J Try this article - http://www.howtogeek.com/122845/htg-explains-what-is-dns/ and http://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/ -

Same problem with Virgin Media ISP, same fix, set DNS to 8.8.8.8 Just exactly what am I doing when I set my DNS to do this? I think I'm looking for an explanation of DNS here! 73 John

Hi – thanks for the heads up that it might be DNS related – I’ve changed the DNS on this PC to Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and the problem is cured – it took over 2 minutes to load the files area

Hi Noel, I have a real problem when using my iPad. Selecting "view as desktop site" from the settings menu within Chrome improves it to the point where it's just about usable. As others have