G3NBU/T and G8AML

I was able to get the /T, ("Television" not "Technician" by-the-way,) as I had passed the Theoretical test.
As it happened, I was appointed licence holder for the club TV station and I had to get a Licence. The licence was included in the usual run of callsigns! Not in the special G6.../T run - as happened later!
I was licenced for the 420 Mhz band!

In October 1951, 420 Mhz band is legal! I was in the British Amateur Television Club since October 53! It is permitted to transmit sound - only to do with the video channel though -in October 1954!

I was already using a convertor, cq-tv 1954, January edition, page 6 - a simple convertor feeding a nine inch television! We had a aerial, too - a 32 element aerial, mounted on a stubby mast, from the same edition! The Aerial was mounted on a ground plane.
I also constructed a transmitter cq-tv 1954 December issue!


I received two stations, with the aerial rotated - G3--- Jeremy Royle and G3--- Littleport, Cambridgeshire! I was on the direct line between the stations, and provided they were in QSO, I would have to rotate the aerial 180° to pick up both!

I was temporaly Wiress Officer in the Sea Cadet Corps ....
We had an allocation, three or four frequencies about 7 Mhz and a single frequency of about 3.66Mhz - old UK amateurs will remember the 80m band with gaps around 3.66Mhz!

We built four or five transmitters in the time that I spent there, usually based on the circuit here! Aerials were half wave dipoles, fed with coax or 50ohm twin feeder. Coverage is over the whole country - only CW - however AM, that we used in 3.66Mhz, is receivable over the whole fenlands rivers!

Instantly the Britsh Government were able to issue Amateur Licences without morse test ....
I was able to get the G8 call, which limited working to over 420Mhz.

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