Very professional presentation. Thank you RSGB! PS. I would like to see more presentations featuring hams between the age of 25-50 in hopes of balancing the demographic stigma that hams are all seniors. 73

Love the quality of and easy to build Qcx+. Today I tuned around 20m to only find one weak station calling cq. Had the QCX+ and a yaesu ft818 connected via a switch to a 20m dipole so I could switch between them. They both received the same weak signal but The QCX+ with its audio filter brought it out and made it more readable and it even decodes the cw on screen. WOW. I tuned the 15mhz time station and the Qcx did better. Thanks Hans. I highly recommend the QCX+ and other things from QRP-Labs.

It is beyond me why KZfaq content creators think it is cool or enhances their video by playing music over the presenter's voice. We came to hear what is being said, we do not want to fight the background music. Many folks have hearing difficulties thus the music quickly becomes extremely annoying and intrusive and quite distracting. Playing music over the presenter's voice is demonstrating disrespectful to your audience!

You can also talk to people over the radio about things having nothing to do with radio.

God bless you! Love your work 73 de VK2AOE

i and other people worked hard to get there other call signs and i do not think it is fair to loose them as i still use my other calls

Does anyone know the transmission characteristics of the Lorenz Cipher/Tunny? FSK offset, start and stop bits, and baud rate? I'm trying to write an emulator.

Excellent video and thanks for Hans for those excellent kits. I enjoyed making a QCX and a QCXmini and also I am enjoying using them. The question of using more than 12V is not about the output power but about using a 4 LiIon or LiPol in series, I think. 73 de YO3HJV

"Unlicensed people can now operate amateur radio equipment under the supervision of a licence holder" Wasn't this already the case? I was supervised when I first used an amateur radio and have subsequently supervised countless others. Was this illegal?

This is excellent. I wish this existed for when I did my Foundation a decade ago!

Thank you Hans - a most enjoyable and informative talk. Look forward to finishing my QMX+ and getting it on the air and of course to all your future upgrades and kits. 73 Stewart/G3YSX

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks Hans very good presentation and I will wait for the SSB SW to be developed. Dr HS0ZLQ, G0MIH.

Excellent video, but background music very annoying.

You get nothing for nothing, give people more privs and power in some areas but FORCE them to relinquish previous callsigns. Hardly fair forcing them. 😠

My overall view of the licence changes related to power is almost entirely negative. Rather than do something about the megawatt power users and their splattering across the airwaves and inappropriate use of wattage whatever the propagation conditions the changes have made things worse. We are a tiny crowded island and high power stations in urban areas swamping the low power users is now a real 'thing'. This is especially true where beam antennas are also used. I stick by my original view and suggestion that everyone should be limited to 100 watts erp whatever the licence. That is easily enough to get around the world. 73 M7BLC

Can I already transfer my 2E callsign to M8/M9 now? How?

Some good changes there.

I have built the dummy load kit and was more than a little impressed because it does relative power measurement with only the lowest-price multimeter. I made that to test a different preassembled kit that I bought used. Figured it may come in handy with the QDX low bands. My daughter helped sort count and hand out parts as I needed to solder them. We had a blast. She was inspired to make a hobby of just building and and reselling them. (She was brand new to radio just passed her Technician class exam. Her birthday and the ARRL Field Day happened one after the other. Her birthday present last year were to assemble parts of a portable station to speak with an ISS astronaut. Competition didn't allow a response and the cross band antenna tired her more than expected. Still. So we assembled the QDX right after the dummy load kit right after the field day. Really nice start. You got credit as you rocked her world for a while. So maybe there are dads everywhere to thank you.

Thanks Hans for your amazing kits. Following the build of 4x QDX, 1x QMX,I start the build of my QMX+ today.

Excellent video Hans. I really enjoyed it. Thanks. de KC9REN

Watched last 30 minutes, shall be seeing the rest.. very informative.. built 3 of Qrp labs radio kits no problem, use them to great effect, receiver side is excellent very quiet, only use simple dipole, matched for best SWR using a nano VNA, as I used same during construction..

1:30:00 for the SSB question.

Do the RSGB do anything for Amateurs that are suffering chronic interference, answer NO that's why I have ended my subscription. Yes men for the incompetent Ofcom goons

Thank you so much to RSGB or this most informative chat with Hans Summers. And thanks to Hans for all you do for amateur radio ! - Bill, W3WJ

Hi Hans, Any chance you can come up with a development board that features an audio amplifier capable of driving an internal speaker mounted to the top case cover? That would be great!

This is great for revising for the Intermediate exam! Thanks for explaing things so clearly

My feed line is 450 twin feed ito the shack directly into my atu as part of my doublet antenna.....will that carry common mode..... Only seem to talk co ax here. I do have around 12ins coax ATU to Rig.

Possibly even down as low as 20 Mhz or the 15 metre band?

This is first time that I got a lot of full explanation of maximum improvements for a magnetic loop antenna. Thank a lot, and, please, continue to do search and sharing with HAMers.

Let’s be honest here, this isn’t really how it happens is it?

The charts for the SSN and SFI seem to have been reversed.

Interesting edition. Thank you. G4TFF. From a blind amateur’s point of view, some comments that might be helpful. Kenwood 590SG is probably still the most accessible HF base station around, both for its voice output and use of buttons and knobs to control. RAIBC produce RADCOM every month as a digital audio version, called Reading Rattle. CQ Blind Hams is a useful video channel . and for a request to manufacturers esp regarding Touch screens; need to go further than just screen reading. I need to be able to touch to hear/read the screen then tap to select or execute the operation. Eg Synnaptic software as used on mobile phones and tablets.

Nice info on Y stations. I have had to look into them from kryptos sculpture. Station X, Alexander Y station, typex, camp X, Hydra radio. Agent X, X Corp, ect.. Ghost stations, Ghost whisperers, Ghost army. A rich history. Thank you for sharing the video.

We often come across imteresting schematics in books and magazines, is there any way to "Copy and Paste" directly inmto the software? As a beginer to building from a circuit, I can see the real possibility of errors creeping in due to a lack of experience, or simple "overload" for a novice! 73 Jim M7BXT

4 minute lead-in?

Excellent presentation

Why are you mixing imperial and metric? I would want to use just metric.

RIP Peter Burton. Sadly missed

If you chance the rolling inductor at my station while transmitting through the ATU. This would be the last thing you did. Allthough this video is 3 years old, I still think I should mention this. You NEVER chance a rolling coil while transmitting. The coil might produce high voltage. Instead, start with the rolling inductor and listen to the noise and tune for maximum noise. Then when you find the sweet spot, tune the capacitors while transmitting. And tune for minumum SWR. Chancing a rolling inductor while transmitting is not done and I consider this very bad advise....... (PA5MC) static.dxengineering.com/global/images/instructions/mfj-962d.pdf Page 7 of the instruction manual "WARNING: Never change the antenna or Inductor selector switch position while transmitting ! Never apply more than 800 Watts to the MFJ-962D !"

> 16:52 "I live half my life in Germany these days, [trying quite hard to speak in German]" > Doesn't even bother to pronounce Koch correctly Textbook Anglophone ignorance.

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THIS ISLAND IS HAITIAN TERRITORY OKAY THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Way back in the 80's I sat my radio ham exam & passed with flying colours. But I never bothered with a licence with young family etc. My friend sat his at the same time & also passed. He got his licence & used his equipment. I recently got reinterested in the hobby & bought a 991A & various aerials etc. I applied for a licence & was granted a foundation licence. Never taking the morse code. My friend never did either. He has a full i think G6 licence & I do not, I have a M7. We both hit the same criteria. This has disgruntled me to a point that with 10W on SSB & my friend 100W. I have pretty much given up & will soon be putting all my equipment up for sale. I argued with the ofcom guys to give me a full licence & was flatly refused. Way back in the early 80's I used to spend a lot of time repairing CB radios & doing upgrades. I used to make my own notch filters & run 3-400 watts from my home with no interference to neighbours. Talking pretty much all around the world , with postcards I even joined the world wide radio club Which was WW106. Why should I have to take more exams to go from foundation when my friend has a full licence. Well why am I posting this. Pretty much because you want more members & make it so hard to be part of it. I would taske more exams but at 72 years old think I have sat more exams than soft mick. If you read this then thank you for taking the time. Steve. M7 DOZ. Out.

Also, when somebody commits to taking the tests, how about a wingman being assigned to them, to back them and if they pass put theory into practice, but also help them if they don't succeed first time in an exam .

I might be preaching to the "converted", but would it be a good idea to co-opt some teenagers as ambassadors, and also some people in their "twenties" and "thirties" as they are the live feedback of where the future of the (this marvellous) hobby is coming from.

Well done to all the RSGB team. It is a shame that the live chat appears not to have been archived for the sake of those of us who could not watch live.

0:00 Placeholder graphic 13:32 Formal AGM business 37:26 Presidential review of 2023 58:04 Presentation of trophies and awards 1:18:10 Board Q&A 2:30:53 Thank yous 2:32:00 Ofcom licence consultation RSGB video 2:34:39 Recorded message from Ofcom Group Director, Spectrum, David Willis 2:38:05 Ofcom video: New amateur radio licensing framework 2:42:33 Licensing Q&A 3:33:44 Closing remarks 3:34:48 End graphic

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