Foundation Licence (M6xxx):

The Lincoln Short Wave Club is holding a two day course for the Foundation Licence at The Village Hall, Aisthorpe, Lincoln, LN1 3SJ on Saturday and Sunday 29th and 30th November with a practical session on the 22nd November.  This also includes sitting the Foundation Licence examination paper on the 30th November at the end of the course. 

You will need to purchase the relevant book for this course “Foundation Licence Now” from the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), at http://www.rsgb.org/shop or by telephone: 0870 904 7373.

The cost of the course is £40 including taking the examination.  You should register for the Foundation Licence Course using the downloadable Form  available here at least one month before the course.

It a pleasure to announce that the Lincoln Hamfest 2008 was successful. Before I start, the Lincoln Short Wave Club must apologise that the promised refreshments didn’t materialise.  Catering is organised by the Showground personnel and they let us down, we are not allowed to employ our own caterers.  Again we are very disappointed and sorry for this and we are making sure this does not happen again at future Hamfest’s.

The comments so far on the Hamfest have been almost 100% positive; one man said it was rubbish and not many stands, another said there weren’t many stands but not that it was rubbish!  Apart from the two complaints above the other visitors to our Hamfest seemed happy, some more than others because they got all they came for, and more.  We did, quite understandably, get moans about not having refreshments. 
The Hamfest usually starts the day before for club members to get the hall and grounds ready for Sunday, and some of the larger traders like to start setting up their stands the day before. (Pictures of the Hamfest can be found here.)