Showing posts with label g3oul. Show all posts
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19 Feb 2023

Remember this?

If I remember correctly, this was a prize at our Liverpool University Amateur Radio Society (G3OUL) dinner one year. I think it was 1969.  It is possible the prize was the successor which was the Micromatic.

When I first came to Cambridge, Sinclair has small premises at 20 Newmarket Road.  

Sir Clive once asked me for advice on antennas!

Talking of G3OUL made me quite nostalgic, so I did some Googling!

5 Jan 2021

KW2000 series

When I was at the University of Liverpool (1967-70) we had a very good amateur radio society with the call G3OUL. A member at the time was Ian Vance G3WMS who later headed a major electronics company. I think he was made an MBE too.

Whilst there we had a KW2000. At the time we thought it was wonderful. I can recall working some impressive DX with it. I cannot remember the antenna we had, but I don't think we had a beam.  In the following years, we had a later version of the KW2000 and a KW linear. I think the original version was 90W pep. There was an article in Short Wave Magazine on the KW2000B.

I took my morse test in the Liver Building and used an El-Bug on CW with the KW2000. I also recall working ZB2VHF on 4m AM from the club on 70.26MHz with 4W.

See http://www.radiomanual.info/schemi/Surplus_Radioamateur/KW_Electronics_KW-2000B_review_1971.pdf

4 May 2019

G3OUL

Many years ago I was a student at Liverpool University. At the radio club was a very keen amateur from Nailsea, near Bristol. He got a 2:2 degree, but went on the get an MBE and was a director of a very large UK company. In his career he was very successful. In my mind he had that rare gift: an instinctive "jizz" for RF design. In my experience very very few people have this. I am not in the least surprised he did well.

I realise I have not seen him in over 40 years. He might even be dead now. What I realise is how we age. He must be over 71 now, yet in my mind he is still that mad keen amateur back in the late 1960s.

2 Jun 2009

ZB2FK on 10m and 6m

In the course of a week I've managed to work ZB2FK on both 10m and 6m QRP. No great distance, but I don't recall working Gibraltar before, apart from ZB2VHF on 4m when I was at Liverpool University (G3OUL) in the late 1960s when running 4W AM!