How many have a ham radio onboard?

AHoy2 said:
Some circular references in the licence conditions about location details but not specific to maritime use, however, the "Advance" course book makes reference to this on p.7 under Operation at sea. Not that many /mm experienced instructors around to discuss this with!
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Ah, there it is. P7 "A regional secondary locator may be used close to the relevent coastline but in international waters you should use your call sign as shown on your license, including the regional locator if you have one".

Phew, that´s that one sorted out then. :cool:

So anyone given themselves written permission to operate? :)
 
ffiill said:
Conachair how hard was the exam?-keep doing the first two on Ham tests no problem and plan to do them properly.
The advanced bothers me slightly-not the theory which just needs a bit of reading up on but the advanced practical?
By the way received UK Navtex for first time last night and got a weak US Coastguards navtex as well.
Boston weatherfax recognisable but very fuzzy;New York Volumet non readable.
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There is no advanced practical, just the exam. I thought it was a major leap forward from foundation\intermediate. Though some bits I wasn´t up tp speed with had questions while other stuff I´d spent a some time with weren´t in there. Nothing on working out resonant frequencies for LC circuits but some on antenna impedence calcs. Which are near the back of the book :o
Looking forward to getting away from these tall buildings, I haven´t actually spoken to anyone yet! Just fsk31.
 
Beadle said:
Of course now you have a full license you must learn Morse
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;)

I´ll save that for a long passage :)

The guys who know at the club reckoned it was more popular than ever, despite having been dropped from the exam. But one thing at a time, there are other languages much more useful to a cruiser than morse :)
 
RobbieW said:
Congrats, I thought it a hard exam! I've also still not actually spoken to anyone but Winlink has had a fair bit of use.

M0GRQ/mm
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Congrats back :cool: Glad it´s out of the way. But a never ending learning curve, today it´s linux and getting fldigi to talk to the radio. Ever onwards.

73´s
 
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