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Immaculate as new IC-7300, owned from new £825 located in Chelmsford   Adrian G0KOM read

6 Element 2m LFA, was only up a month or so, so as new, £60 5 Element 50Mhz Yagi, have had this for 20 odd years and worked the world with it, needs a bit of a clean up but works great £50   Cushcraft R7 7 band vertical from 10m thru 40m, works very well, £165 adrian@theradioham.com Collection from Chelmsford, G0KOM read

LDG Z-817 QRP Tuner 160m - 10m Box opened, contents checked, box closed. NEVER USED Asking Price incl p&p               £80 read

FT-818ND Unboxed, rechargeable battery inserted and charged, tested for receive, microphone never connected or used, never transmitted, battery removed, re-boxed. Remaining items Never used. Item Cost New FT-818ND 587.95 PL259-PL259 RG58 500mm Patch Lead 8.95 USB Cat & programming cable for Yaesu FT-100D FT-817 FT-857 FT-818 14.99 Stand For Yaesu Ft-817 Black 10.33 Bluetooth Adapter converter for YAESU FT-817 FT-857 FT-897 16.49   Asking Price incl p&p               £580 638.71   read

As im totally Mac / osx / iOS in our household Im struggling to find a dongle for the Mac..all seem to be for windows....any suggestions   :) read

Wednesday October 6th at 7.30pm (1830utc) on Zoom ID 842 5221 3056 our speaker is Chris G7OOD from Oldham amateur radio club talking about electric cars ( not quite radio but we all love technology and want to know more about batteries!). Chris is an active radio amateur so we can be sure his talk will be relevant to us ... read

Weds 15 September at 7.30 pm Bill, G4ERV will speaking on Batteries for portable operating - which work best and some advice about how to use them safely along how they work ! Zoom ID 842 5221 3056 as usual Afterwards you can always view the talk again at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9nFTkJJAjOdPZVytoPOcg/videos 73! Jef OS8NT   read

GB2BB run by Thurrock Acorns Amateur radio club, will be on the air today Saturday 11th Sept from 11am ( 10;00 utc ) on 2m FM from the QTH of G6 AMY in accordance with Covid regulations. Other members of the Acorns may be about on other frequencies. read

also who has told you to take it down? if you are a member of the RSGB they have services to help with planning applications and planning issues, and in the member only part of the website they have a handy guide about antennas and planning  wire antenna's tend to be largely exempt and i believe you are allowed 2 external antennas ... read

its an interesting concept, FT4 is a short duration data mode (7.5 sec / cycle) and due to 50hz channel width it could allow more people to have QSO's at same time and so could make more efficient use of the satellite and with FT4 / 8 able to copy signals at far lower signal / noise ratio than voice potentially ... read