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, and welcome to all who browse this site.    Today is Ok... so this isn't the best website ever - it is tacked on to the business website on some spare space...... Don't tell the boss!!    To link to this site please use  http://www.andrewphotographic.co.uk/g8gmu.htm 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.  G5RV,   inverted V 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 IO92FL  -  52.4709°N 1.5012°W  Close to junction 3 of the M6 Motorway. Height above sea level - 367.5 feet or 112 Metres        RADAR - WE DID IT!! A report on the 75th anniversary event Portable activity Celebrating the Weedon - Daventry RADAR experiment 2010 re-enacting the Daventry RADAR experiment - WE DID IT!! Snowdon Portable activity M3HBM as MW3HBM/P Satellite Working The G8GMU guide to simple satellite working What are the differences? Amateur Radio - CB - PMR466 The G8GMU small garden Square HF Antenna International Q CODE G2FTK QSL Card Return to Sender Bunkers on The Air Famous & Celebrity Radio Amateurs Links to other sites AMSAT AMSAT UK Bedworth Lions Club GB4BLC CASHOTA Castles And Stately Homes On The Air Coventry Amateur Radio Society GOOGLE G8GMU Hinckley Amateur Radio & Electronic Society Leicester Amateur Radio Society Northampton Radio Club Radio Society of Great Britain RAYNET Radio amateur Emergency Network Southgate Amateur Radio Club News Page Solar X-Rays Geomagnetic Field   For several years I have hosted Bedworth Lions awareness month. Opening up my home to the public for the month in January. It is was not repeated 2010 due to other activities. 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. Photo by David Monks This event operates under the special event callsign GB4BLC. Link to Bedworth Lions Club Home page As is evident from above I am a keen amateur radio operator, member and Past- President of Bedworth Lions Club 2007- 2009. Bedworth Lions Club 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; also 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. 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 the late 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.     Lookup callsign        If you are not sure try G8GMU as an example Using this service takes you away from this site Amateur Radio callsign service provided by qrz.com mail to - G 8 G M U Amateur radio is one of the most exciting hobbies there is today. There are over one and a half million radio amateurs or "radio hams", around the world and this is an indication of its popularity. A new figure suggests an increase, with some 3 million radio hams in Japan. Since the first amateur radio experimenters at the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of people interested in the hobby has grown. A hobby as old a radio itself, but as up to date as the Intentional space station, with more new people getting their licences as time goes by. Amateur radio has ceased to be a minority interest particularly with digital modes that allows you get to connect your computer to your ham radio system & open up worlds only available to the licenced radio amateur. The word "Ham" as applied to the amateur radio dates back to 1908 and it was the call letters of the first amateur wireless station operated by some of the members of the Harvard University Wireless Club. They were Albert Hyman, Bob Almy and Reggy Murray.