A most enjoyable and productive meeting with a couple of new faces and an old one. Jan is an old friend of some of us from London Hackspace Radio Club now living in Poland but here for a holiday. Rakesh recently discovered us by sheer Google-fu (so we must be doing something right) and has been licensed since just before Covid. Alastair popped up on Facebook a few weeks ago seeking someone to help with his station – an Icom 706 and mag-mount vertical combination which he’s been trying, unsuccessfully, to set up on his narrowboat in East London. We suggested that if he didn’t find anyone closer then come to one of our meetings and we’d try work through it.
In the event, and it was a perfect team effort, we got all four of Alastair’s elements tuned to their respective bands and heard signals coming through strong so now he’s confident it all functions correctly, and having recorded the measurements he’ll have a known good starting point when he sets it up at ‘home’.
Next online meeting is Friday 9th August and in person will be on Wednesday 21st August either at The Curtains Up pub in Barons Court or possibly operating portable in a park or open space (suggestions?) if weather permits.