GB2RS NEWS Sunday 29 June 2008
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:18 EDT
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GB2RS NEWS
Sunday 29 June
The news headlines
* New 70MHz beacon in Portugal
* HMS Belfast 70th anniversary
* New RSGB RAYNET and Public Service Group reflector
A new 4 metre beacon in Portugal will operate on 70.166MHz with the
callsign CS5BFM. Sited at locator IM59rd, the antenna, which is a
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Sat Nav Bargain (OT)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:35:21 +0100
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131342
Free delivery too...
tox
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Jail for Bluetooth driver
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:23:03 +0100
So the front page of one of todays national newspapers reports that a
driver has been jailed for killing someone by crashing into the back
of his car whilst talking into a hands-free "Bluetooth" mobile phone.
As I have predicted for some time, it will not be long before there is
a total ban on the use of all typ ...
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"I love hearing myself on the radio"
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:12:10 +0100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UvldlxwPJM&eurl
stick with it to 1 min 14 seconds in
Ideal foundation licence candidate (and uk.radio.amateur contributor)
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Re: [ ] Gas Company piping is not repeat not blue in colour.
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:07:27 +0100
>By the way it is my opinion that "opinionating" is not a word, opinion is
>not a verb. I don't intend posting the complete OED as evidence, so I
>suspect that you will not believe me.
>
opine verb (opined, opining) formal to suppose or express something as an
opinion.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Latin opinari t ...
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What Is Sauce For The Goose Is Sauce For The Gander
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:46:46 +0100
I have stated my opinion that someone, although holding an Amateur
(Sound) Licence A (obtained by him via the easiest route available at
the time and taking well over a decade to do so), who sold a standard
design of transceiver because 'vital tune-up pages missing from
manual' and who had no idea what the 'pres ...
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Re: [ ] Gas Company piping is not repeat not blue in colour.
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:17:54 +0100
"Brian Morrison" <scrapspam@fenrir.org.uk> wrote in message
news:g42nkp$h5m$1@news.datemas.de...
> Presumably the same is true if one uses a cardboard toilet roll centre
> as part of a bomb to separate the main charge from the initiating
> charge/detonator?
A cardboard toilet roll sounds like a fate worse tha ...
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Revenge is a dish best served cold ........
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:01:51 +0100
Remember I was telling you all about the day some years ago when I parked to
listen to Glasgow Airport on my scanner at the end of a road that went up to
a primary school and they phoned the Polis who came out and questioned me?
....... anyway the school went on fire last night.... they didn't mind me
being th ...
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Mrs.Nugatory !!!!! "Standard transceiver" ?????
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:57:06 +0100
As per the title.
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Ping Dave (again)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:26:22 +0100
Another one for you.
Jeff and a person of no substance are currently in discussion about
the various Terrorism Acts, following an erroneous statement by the
PoNS.
Take this exchange:
"Jeff" wrote:
> "the Acts" in the comment above refer to the Acts under discussion, and
> more specifically your sta ...
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