This weekend is the Practical Wireless Magazine’s VHF-UHF activity session. Just make a few SOTA contacts on VHF or UHF and send Tim Kirby G4VXE an account of what you did and you could win a prize!
You have the advantage of me there Brian! Maybe it was just my browser, but Richard’s post originally showed up as empty, with just the title PW. I replied with QX suggesting a logical series of letters - a fairly weak quip, I concede.
Googling QX to see what you might be taken back to produced a result that I wasn’t aware of, and you probably weren’t referring to!
I suspect that you are referring to a certain magazine!
QX as an affirmative response equivalent to “roger” comes from the 1950s "Lensman" series of books by "Doc" Smith, they were the ultimate in space opera and I dont think that their broadness of brush stroke has been exceeded since! I particularly liked the idea of directing the full output of the sun as a weapon…
Of course… It would have helped if I hadn’t left the elk antenna in the car! (Last time it was the BNC connector)
Not a great deal of activity on 2m FM unfortunately… But a nice new footpath up to Long Mynd Pole Bank.
The Practical Wireless VHF Weekend is over. If you want to be in with a chance of winning a prize, send a report of your activation to Tim Kirby G4VXE longworthtim@gmail.com