West Manchester Radio Club Christmas Party 2024
West Manchester Radio Club Christmas Party 2024 avatar

Last night, I enjoyed a brilliant night at the West Manchester Radio Club‘s Christmas Party.  Every year, my club puts on a tickets only Christmas Party where we all have a get together, have a lovely buffet and enjoy a quiz.  At the end, the ticket price includes a random draw for a bottle of something for you to take away.  Although, I never seem to win the whisky..!

For the last three years, being the Secretary, I have stepped up and done a quiz with a range of categories to make everyone have a jolly good think.  As it is only for fun, the club provides a box of chocolates for the winning team.  This year, the winning team scored 42 out of 50, the worst team, ah hem, 11..!

The buffet we enjoyed was organised by Janet LePuy (thank you) with caterers T&T Sargeants from Leigh who supplied a lovely spread of food, and plenty too..!

Christmas Party

Here are some Christmas party pictures taken courtesy of Peter Nutt G4WLI. Thanks Peter.

If you are into amateur radio, and live in the north west of the UK, then you really need to think about joining this very socially active radio club, it is well worth the membership fee and effort of coming down to the club shack.  Oh, and you don’t always have to wear a Christmas jumper..!

UK Amateur Radio Licensing Framework 2024
UK Amateur Radio Licensing Framework 2024 avatar

Here is the latest update to the UK amateur radio licensing framework from OfCom, (Office for Communications – the UK’s licensing body), delaying the roll out of phase 2 and 3 of the licensing to 2025.

AmateurRadioLicensing2024 PDF Download size 167KB

Surrendering of Callsigns

Comment: I don’t mind surrendering my M6INI callsign, (I never had an Intermediate 2E callsign), but for those who for example hold their own callsign in addition to a silent key parent, but also want to continue to hold and use a silent key callsign of that parent as well as their own, will now be forced to chose under this new arrangement which to surrender as only one personal callsign is allowed.  So if both parents are now silent key, you now have to chose between Mum or Dad, sadly.