Re: GB2RS NEWS Sunday 5th July 2009

Yeti wrote:
> Steve Terry wrote:
>> "Yeti" <yeti@ayrshore.com> wrote in message
>> news:h2ncrd$al4$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Ken Ward wrote:
>>>> "Des Kinvig" <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote in
message
>>>> news:Qiq3m.50950$OO7.44897@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>>>>>> NEWS FOR SCOTLAND A few weeks ago we advised listeners on the
east
>>>>>> coast of Scotland that the long-established 80 metre news
reading at
>>>>>> 11.30 was in danger of terminating because GM3HGA and GM3VEY in
>>>>>> Aberdeen were stepping down. No RSGB members have yet come
forward to
>>>>>> take up this important news reading. Accordingly, today's will
be the
>>>>>> last bulletin from Aberdeen unless some last-minute volunteers
>>>>>> contact
>>>>>> GB2RS News Manager .
>>>>>>
>>>>> useless bunch those members are ........or perhaps they don't have
>>>>> many members these days that can read ........
>>>> They can always play with their new toys......
>>>>
>>>> Dundee Amateur Radio Club was recently awarded a grant of nearly
£3,000
>>>> by the National Lottery under the Awards for all Scheme. This Grant has
>>>> been used to purchase the equipment required to provide a D-Star
>>>> digital UHF radio repeater for radio amateurs from Dundee, Angus and
>>>> North Fife. Full information and coverage of this D-Star Repeater can
>>>> be found at the D-Star Scotland website at www.dstarinfo.org.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ayr Amateur Radio Group was given around £10,000 - to provide loan
>>> radios to FL licence holders who are on the Intermediate course.
>>>
>>> Far more worthy cause than to pollute the airwaves with more D-Star
>>> IMHO.
>>>
>>>
>> Saves handing them out on the streets
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to spend that £10,000 on used Ham Internationals
>> and
>> get them back onto the 555?
>>
>> Steve Terry
>>
>
> 1) they didn't all come from CB Radio.
>
> 2) Who cares if they did?
>
> 3) The equipment had to be new, part of the conditions of the grant.


It was also condition of the grant that the club should not
unnecessarily exclude! Something that many are all too happy to do on
this NG for no other reason they didn't come to the hobby via the same
route as they did. Wha's like us dam few and there a' deed should be the
moto of many of the G3/G4's in this NG.

Len GM0ONX
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