M0PIE

We are very grateful to Mark, M7IXY, for his talk to the club covering the history of Huddersfield hospital radio and how he became involved many years ago. He showed many photos of celebrity visitors to the station and provided plenty of technical details, including how they used fixed lines from the post office to transmit to various locations and how they have now migrated to an online service. At one time one very popular segment was the live broadcast from the local football stadium,...

At our monthly meeting last night, David, M0RIU, set out to persuade us of the merits of the Linux computer operating system. He's clearly a big fan, but he didn't have to try too hard to sell its capabilities in his lively and entertaining presentation. It emerged that: Linux is considered better than Windows for stability, security, privacy, and performance. It’s open-source and free. It runs almost any software that Windows can. It can be installed on old computers. It's flexible and...

A very Happy New Year to all of our members and friends – and a reminder that our eight HNY special event stations will be on the air for the next few days on HF and VHF. The new year has also brought a new club member, so please welcome James Mellor, M7OJM of Huddersfield, and give him a call! Also look out for our event stations, spot them and give them a shout! Here are our operators: GB0HNY , Brian, G0BFJ GB1HNY , Darran, G0BWB GB2HNY , Richard,...