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Latest News from Andy, the GBØBWS Licensee


Good heavens, it's that time of year already, and here we are at 9th October 2011, with barely a week to go and I haven't even written the intro up ! Sorry. This year's been kind of busy, and with little time for anything !

This year's theme in our HQ is Emergency Communications, with the Scouts and Cubs having survived a natural disaster (an earthquake in East Scoutonia) and have managed to get themselves to their HQ building as they know that's a place of food and shelter.

We shall be operating from the Scout HQ building in Bishop's Waltham, upstairs as usual, suitably decorated to try and make the place a bit more like an emergency shelter (various bits of camouflage netting and similar material strewn about) with a sleepover scheduled for the Friday night after the business of getting everybody to the shelter successfully during the hours of darkness (aka a night hike), so we'll most likely be on 80m late Friday evening, and then on all the bands all day Saturday and most of Sunday.

We have managed to sort out the internet connectivity problems that have plagued us for a couple of years in the form of 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi channel congestion around the area of Bishop's Waltham the HQ is in, thanks to a new access point, and we have a good direct connection to the internet IF we can get over the congestion problem through brute force.

This year, our JOTA and JOTI registrations are both complete, I have the licence NoV, and we will be running the HF, VHF and UHF radios, just as we have done in the past, but with the addition of some 4m this year I hope (subject to antenna).

I am also hoping that there will be a few more licenced operators around this year too, so that I can drop back into more of a management role and take some photos of the event for uploading onto the website. The webcam pictures of last year were not fantastic by any means, and quite low definition. This year we'll try a better webcam or two.

If you are about, either on the radio or on Echolink, or on JOTI, we look forward to working you sometime over the weekend. If you fancy having a chat on Echolink please look for node number 158211 under my own call as we cannot get the SES call registered. Given the variable state of the sunspot cycle at the moment, Echolink is supposed to be our long-distance lifeline.

Best 73, Andy, GØJLX