Lincoln Short Wave Club

After the excitement of our aborted foundation exam on the 28^th July everything went almost smoothly this morning; the taxi didn’t turn up for Lyon and Liz and they had to get a lift from a neighbour, they arrived at the village hall at 11 minutes to 10 with the exam starting at 10!!

The village hall set out exactly as I had indicated on the exam layout – plenty of room between candidates.  Thanks Peter, Les and David, supervised by Celia; if I’ve missed anyone sorry.

The successful candidates; back row l to r Andy, David and Mick, front Lyon.

The change of day and time was a disappointment to some of our regular visitors to the surplus equipment sales but it meant others could come, some on their way to the Spalding Rally.

We had visitors from Newcastle, York, Hull, Mansfield and Grantham to name a few places; most visitors were able to pick up a bargain or two or got rid of some of their surplus.

Below are a few photos from the day; sorry about the quality I really must invest in a new camera!!

Just to prove G4STO was actually at the sale; she looks a little aggressive but that’s because she’s concentrating.

Our next surplus equipment sale will be on Wednesday 24^th October 2018 with booking in from 1830 hours.

On Saturday G3PVU, G1LQB, G0RQQ and M0TEF started work on getting the 6M HB9CV beam up and running unfortunately they didn’t get finished before having to go home.

Another successful day at the club with Dave passing his Foundation exam and Geoff 2E0YBG passing his Advanced exam.

The first named invigilator was in trepidation mode for her first ‘on-line’ examination; would everything be as straight forward as the paper based exams?  Yes.  There was a slight hiccup at the beginning; she had forgotten where the PIN number was to be found and she had left her paperwork at home but Peter (2E0FGA) the second invigilator was more organised and had his copy with him so this was soon sorted and the exam began only to be followed shortly afterwards by the Model Railway people delivering equipment to their room; the wind was so strong the adjoining door kept blowing open.  Luckily they were only there about five minutes.

This interruption didn’t put our candidates off; Clive M6BGR and Stephen M6TSJ successfully completed their Intermediate Course by passing the examination.

Peter and Les (G1LQB) just before the exam.

Clive and Stephen just prior to starting their exam

and Stephen and Clive after passing it.                                   Stephen, Clive, Les and Peter.