G8GMU, Brian Leathley - Andrew, 4 Robinson Road Bedworth CV12 0EL. Brian's amateur radio activity page, including GB4BLC & M3HBM
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, and welcome to the G 8 G M U web site.
Ok... so this isn't the best website ever - it is tacked on to the business website on some spare space.
My name is Brian - I have been a licensed radio amateur since 1971.
Now QRV on UHF & VHF 70 cm, & 2 Mtrs HF 80 to 10 Mtrs.SSB

Antennas - The usual co-linears for 2 & 70. 3 ele beam for 6 Mtrs  ½ size G5RV & 88' doublet fed with 300 R. ribbon. Various experimental antennas on the 50 foot pneumatic trailer mast. The best experimental HF ant. was a 14 foot per side square,
worked into Iceland & the antipodes within minutes on the same beam heading.
Currently using a delta loop on 20 metres, also quite active on AO51 satellite.

Located in Bedworth Warwickshire U K - In IO92FJ  -  N 52° 47' 87"   W 1° 50' 12" -  Close to junction 3 of the M6 Motorway.


G8GMU (on left) with Mayor (on right)
For several I have hosted Bedworth Lions awareness month. Opening up my home to the public for the month in January. It is planned again for for Jan. 2009.
This picture is of the Mayor of Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough, Cllr. Bill Sheppard opening the 2008 event .   During the opening of the 2008 event opening Bill sent a greetings message to G0VQH Cllr. Jenny Bailley the Mayor of Cambridge. It is believed that this is the first time two English serving Mayors have spoken by amateur radio.
This event operates under the special event callsign GB4BLC.
Photo by David Monks
Link to Bedworth Lions Club Home page






Portable activity
Celebrating the Weedon - Daventry RADAR experiment
Satellite Working
The G8GMU guide to
simple satellite working
What's the difference
Amateur Radio - CB - PMR466
The GMU small garden
Square HF Antenna
International
Q CODE
G2FTK QSL Card
Return to Sender
Link to
The Coventry Amateur Radio Society
Link to
The Radio Society of
Great Britain
Link to
Famous Radio Amateurs page on the
Bedworth Lions website
Link to
Amateur Radio Pages UK
Link to
AMSAT
Link to
AMSAT UK
Link to
RAYNET
Radio Amateur
Emergency Network
Solar X-Rays

Geomagnetic Field


MW3HBM/P at Snowdon Summit

M3HBM Joshua carrying all the equipment for the event
Joshua (M3HBM) was active on Snowdon on the 31st July 2005 as MW3HBM/P on 2 Metres FM.
His photo at Llanberis SMR station was taken before the ascent into cloud, on one of the worst July days that one railway guard could remember.

The equipment used was a Yaseu VX 150 handheld about 2 watts output into a non-commercial colinear on a 3metre mast. Railway regulations prohibited the larger gear with the 12 volt lead acid battery from being carried to the summit.
"Big signal" contacts were made into Lancashire & Yorkshire before Josh became uncomfortably cold.
I am sure a return will be made in better weather.
Prior to the event the best DX was VO1TA .This was on 20Mtrs using a 66' wire, no higher than 3metres off the ground from the depths of the Llanberis pass
shrouded by solid rock on 3 sides.

As is evident from above I am a keen amateur radio operator, and member and President of Bedworth
Lions Club in 2007- 2008; which is part of Lions Clubs International, the biggest service organisation in the
world. I am a member of the Coventry Amateur Radio Society since around the age of 13, unfortunately
my membership has not been continuous; I am a member of The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).
 Involved in various aspects of the civic life of Bedworth, past chairman of the Bedworth Chamber of Trade
- now the Bedworth Town Centre Association. I am involved with the local council sitting on several
committees & groups. As a Lions Club member I am one of the judges of the Borough in Bloom judges
looking at the excellent work of the local schools in this competition. I contribute to the work of Nuneaton
& Bedworth Doorway working with homeless people. Through Warwickshire Business Education
Partnership, I attend events which help young people appreciate the complex business world.
I enjoy my vintage vehicles, currently the most interesting is a Ferguson TE20, 1947 made in the first year
of production of the marque. I am a member of the Heart of England Classic transport club. With Laurie
Jahr I was co-founder of the Advanced Motorcyclists Association - becoming an advanced motorcycling
examiner. I was also an RAC/ACU examiner (badge number 906) with their motorcycle training scheme.
My badges are now lodged with Coventry Motor Museum, along with several of the motorcycles I rode
on a regular basis.
   
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