[Uram-rejections] IC7300 firmware update?

Fri Aug 14 15:25:54 BST 2020

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> From: gareth evans <headstone255 at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Re: IC7300 firmware update?
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:37:41 +0100
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> On 13/08/2020 15:33, Mandy Landie wrote:
> >
> > I might be interested in the radio, Gareth. Does it transmit on
> > 27.89125MHz? I'd like to use it to speak to someone about 440yds away,
> > would it be suitable for that?
> 
> Hoping that the moderators will allow me the right of reply ...
> 
> Initially, I ignored the above, but it is an example of why, after 24
> years, I unsubscribed from URA back in March.
> 
> It is a reference to a post I made in the 4X4 group, which has to be
> over 18 years ago now (because that is when I sustained a broken leg
> at a 4X4 rally and stopped all such activity.)
> 
> 18 years? What mental trait rakes over the coals of something so ancient?
> 
> 4X4 Green Laners (over 80 miles of byways down here in Wiltshire) used
> 27MHz CB when in a convoy, and on difficult lanes, especially when
> overgrown with young trees and saplings and preventing the evaporation
> of rainwater, the going gets difficult and
> a touring convoy can get spread out over about 1/4 mile from each other,
> and I commented that the CB still works over such a distance even when
> attenuated by the trees, an aggravating condition when antennae were
> mounted low down on the vehicles so as not to get scrubbed off by trees,
> overgrown hedges and young saplings.
> 
> The silly children in URA latched onto that
> comment, even though it was in an unrelated NG (thus showing signs of
> stalking) and claimed that I couldn't install CB correctly. When up on 
> the high lanes in the Cotswolds, despite the poorly mounted antennae, CB 
> QSOs over 50 miles were possible, so nothing at all wrong with the
> installation, allowing for the necessity of antennae having to be
> installed in far less than favourable locations, usually
> down on the buffer beams.
> 
> I suppose that I must reap what I have sown, because my stance that 
> amateur radio is a technical pursuit means that I attract brickbats from 
> those among us who support the lamentable lack of technical nous 
> represented by the Foundation Licence.
> 
> As someone who was inspired by the technical basis of amateur radio,
> originally as an 11 year old after a lesson given by an inspired
> primary school teacher, I remain opposed to the Foundation Licence
> "and all its works".
> 
> 73 de Gareth G4SDW
> 
> 
> 
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