Hi Kevin It was OK but I didn't use it much because the assembly time was more than half an hour - quite fiddly. I guess you could probably find a quicker way of attaching the wire mesh panels than ve

The GM Microwave Round Table will be on Saturday 12 November. Booking is now open on http://www.gmroundtable.org.uk/ The programme is not yet confirmed; there will be further announcements when there

The GM Microwave Round Table will be on Saturday 12 November 2016. (Note the change from first to second Saturday this year.) Details will be posted on the website as usual: GMRT - home GMRT - home Jo

A reminder that the GM microwave round table is on Saturday 7 November in Burntisland. There are now 40 registered, so still 10 places left! The website is at http://www.gmroundtable.org.uk/ If you in

An addendum to Brian's posting. The GM round table website now has bookings enabled. Places are limited to about 50 in total because of the size of the venue. http://www.gmroundtable.org.uk/ 73 John G

I'm hoping to get out, the weather looks OK. Station: GM8OTI/P Locator: IO86JF-ish (East Lomond, ~330m asl, good takeoff to south) Bands: 10GHz 1W 40cm dish Talkback: ON4KST if I can access it, else m

I started university in 1972 and never knew the microwave background as anything other than the 3K microwave background. Certainly never knew it as 4K. I was a physicist not a communications engineer

Hi All, Although the programme isn't quite finalised yet, registration for the 2014 GM Microwave Round Table is now open - links from http://www.gmroundtable.org.uk/ Please look at the instructions -

Well the replies to this so far are few and far between but I'm hoping to be out if the rain stops! Callsign: GM8OTI/P Locator: IO74 (roving, south west Scotland) Bands: 10GHz 1W 0.4m dish Talkback: h

Thanks John, I intend to be out on Sunday morning 10-12 clock time probably - can't do the afternoon. I'll probably be roving in the hills south of Edinburgh, hopefully finding some decent takeoff to

Hi again, the weather is looking OK so I'm expecting to be out on Sunday. Callsign: GM8OTI/P Locator: IO74 probably Mull of Galloway (IO74NP) Bands: 10GHz 1W 40cm dish Talkback: will try ON4KST if mob

I am hoping to be out providing the weather is OK. Will confirm towards the end of the week. Callsign: GM8OTI/P Locator: IO74 somewhere Bands: 10GHz 1W 40cm dish Talkback: will try ON4KST if mobile si

The date for the 2014 GM Round Table has been finalised: Saturday 1 November. Details will appear on the new website: http://www.gmroundtable.org.uk/ We hope to have some visitors from outwith GM as u

The Scottish Microwave Round Table information has, to date, been hosted on Ray's website. As Ian notes, the wayback machine has the archive, but we are setting up a new site for the GMRT stuff. This

I use an FT817ND but have never connected the power the wrong way round because I use Anderson Powerpoles, and my batteries and power supplies all have these fitted permanently. (On everything - since

I'm hoping to be out on Sunday afternoon for a while. Short and limited in resources as I'll be in transit between Edinburgh and Southampton. Callsign: G8OTI/P Locator: IO83PM (probably) Bands: 10GHz

Callsign: GM8OTI/P Locator: IO74 and IO84 (roving) Bands: 10GHz 1W 40cm dish Talkback: 144.175MHz and mobile phone 0771 078 6029. Possibly KST though it's a pain on my phone! Times: Roughly 1100BST on

Thanks Tony, that's good to know. You'll probably be easier from my second location with the Isle of Man out of the way - I could hear you from that area last October (when I was running 0.7mW!). 73 J

Callsign: GM8OTI/P Locator: IO74NP (probably) first session, IO84AT(ish) second session Bands: 10GHz 1W 40cm dish Talkback: 144.175MHz and mobile phone 0771 078 6029 Times: Roughly 1000-1200BST, then

Just keeping this topic alive ;-) The forecast is looking OK-ish (some heavy rain showers in the afternoon?) so I'm hoping to be out /P with 10GHz on Sunday. I now have about 1W though still to a 40cm