VHF on non tidal Thames

[ADLS]

And I did mine at Bisham...

Sierra oscar delta india delta India.

It also comes in very handy talking to Barclays bank call station in India and booking flight tickets by phone.

Found that VHF was mostly used on the Thames to wish other boaters Happy Birthday and when were they taking the ballons in??????????????????

 

[boatone]

No, B1 would take his message to the telegraph office where the Marconi company Radio Officer would send it using the spark-gap transmitter....

From my family album ........

Lots I could tell you about radio coms on merchant ships before the advent of the small (but perfectly formed !) transistor !

Anyone with an interest may find this site interesting: Marine Radio Museum

Apart from possibly Byron, I wonder how many other forumites can still manage this from memory - although maybe not as fast as I used to !

 

[Ramage]

... .-.

A little rusty at morse nowadays.....

73 de M0LHR

 

[SnowCat]

...and 88s de M0MJL

 

[boatone]

... .-.

A little rusty at morse nowadays.....

73 de M0LHR

S R ?

Puzzled MWOD3

 

[Ramage]

Make that very rusty. --- -.-

 

[boatone]

Make that very rusty. --- -.-

Never met anyone that suffered from morse code disleckseeya b4 !

 

[oldgit]

... .-.

A little rusty at morse nowadays.....

73 de M0LHR

Wotsyerandle ......G8WQM.

 

[mlines]

G1SEO (or for the next few weeks - GO1SEO)

 

[ADLS]

Raymond Baxter

When the Thames Dunkirk fleet went down/up river to/from a reunion, a radio channel would be nominated. Raymond would call up the fleet and suggest that he would make one call to the Thames Barrage for permission to pass through.

A PLA officer guest speaker at one of ADLS dinners remarked how he looked forward to recieving Raymonds message each year. He also said how he wished other fleets would do the same.

 

[ThamesBoater]

Can anyone recommend somewhere to do a course? not to far from Hungerford or Oxford would be good but not essential.

 

[Mirror Painter]

Can anyone recommend somewhere to do a course? not to far from Hungerford or Oxford would be good but not essential.

Mark, if you find a course on this (i.e. western) side of Oxford I'll come with you. If you like.

Don't tell anyone, I'm a radio ham too - G7HEU aka M0HEU.

 

[boatone]

Google 'RYA VHF Courses Oxford'

Otherwise there is Bisham Sailing School near Marlow - http://www.bishamabbeysailing.co.uk/

 

[Mirror Painter]

Having now spent a few minutes reading the thread I learn the course is brief and Bisham is not too far

Thanks.

 

[ThamesBoater]

Otherwise there is Bisham Sailing School near Marlow - http://www.bishamabbeysailing.co.uk/

Thanks for that, they seem to have a few course dates left this year as well.
Location is alright if I go by boat


Moxon,

There is also a course in Cricklade, they have one course left this year. No good for me as I couldn't get there, might suit you though?
http://www.crickladeseaschool.co.uk/index.html

But yes, would be cool to go on the same course!

 

[Ramage]

I can highly recommend Bisham's VHF SRC course. As a Radio Amateur you will find it very light on technical content, being mainly a course on procedures.

73 DE M0LHR.

 

[Sulley]

+1 for Bisham Abbey

 

[chathambob]

VHF courses

Not exactly local to The Thames...but not everyone who has a boat there lives near it!
www.bridgekentmarine.co.uk in Bridge, nr Canterbury

 

[chathambob]

VHF courses

Best to get the VHF Certificate under your belt done before the course increases in length from 1 to 2 days... well, believe it or not, it's mooted!!

 

[Mirror Painter]

ThamesBoater - course booked at Cricklade for the end of this month. Thanks for the tip.