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    Amateur Radio

    Are there any members who are interested in amateur radio, please?

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    Yes ... the skinny dude teaching in SE Asia somewhere (not Thailand).

    Forget his name

    He even builds his own satellites!

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    Simon43 me thinks.....

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    Simon43...up in Laos

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    ^ ^^ That's the guy ... thanks

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    I am an amateur radio person as you may have guessed. With the advent of digital modes I would have thought that there would be a growing number who would be using it.

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    As a child I liked wireless Hams
    Since Brexit prefer the mature Gammons I meet on RINDR

    My call sign was OWLDAMP 2wet2woo

    Do you have a long wave on your knob?

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    I have an assistant to twiddle it
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    Simon has an assistant named Cindy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    Simon has an assistant named Cindy.
    Like many great men, Lady Hamilton had a hand in teh erection of Nelson's Column

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    I am indeed that radio ham guy As a young teenager in the UK, I got involved in landbased pirate radio (building valve radio transmitters). Then did a stint in the 70's on an offshore pirate station. I got a ham licence in those days, but never used it because I found radio hams to mostly be dreadfully boring! I took up the hobby again about 20 years ago when I moved to south-east Asia, and especially digital modes, because allowed me to do my antenna design/testing etc, without the need to speak to other radio hams, who still are IMHO, mostly boring old men!

    I'm up in north Laos, the only radio ham in the country. I operate on all the HF bands, except 60m (the government won't allow me to use that band).

    As I teach science online from home, my rig is on all the time. Listening on 17 and 12m right now

    BTW, my flexible partner is called Candi (not Cindy). She is always willing to please and will bend over backwards as required, (so long as her metal joints allow that...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by can123 View Post
    I am an amateur radio person as you may have guessed. With the advent of digital modes I would have thought that there would be a growing number who would be using it.
    The problem is that in south-east Asia, it's not so easy to get a ham licence. Thailand will only offer licences to those with a ham licence from overseas, AND then only for about 6 nationalities (Canada isn't on the list...). Myanmar does everything it can to avoid issuing a licence, unless $$$ is thrown at them. Laos is actually great and easy to deal with the one person in the government who knows about radio hams). Everyone else knows buggar-all and I had a scary experience a few weeks ago when my local police genuinely thought that I was a spy.... So many police in my home checking everything - Candi got rather scared as well!!

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    Thank you, all noted, 73's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon43 View Post
    T I had a scary experience a few weeks ago when my local police genuinely thought that I was a spy.... So many police in my home checking everything - Candi got rather scared as well!!

    Oops! Not cool… are they convinced now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saint Willy View Post
    Oops! Not cool… are they convinced now?
    No, I was hauled into their office again yesterday. They are really making it difficult now for me to enjoy a peaceful life in Laos. I've started looking for another country to live in, which is difficult with Covid rules. Turkey seems welcoming (visas, UK index-linked pension etc). Anyway, my lawyers are seeing if they can get the police off my back....

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    Jeez, Simon....I hope it works out for you to stay in Laos. It'd be a pain to have to change countries entirely. Good luck, dude.

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