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On Thursday, 18 April, I sat and passed the RCF Intermediate exam. After a delay due to a problem on the Ofcom website, I finally got the call sign 2E0RJW on Friday 26th April.

So I am now allowed to work on all the amateur bands at powers up to 50W.

Next stage, the Advanced exam.

I have finally reach the limit with unsolicited marketing calls (in spite of being registered with the TPS). So today I have implemented a couple of changes to the Asterisk phone system here.

1. All inbound calls with the number withheld will be presented with the number disconnected tones, then told that the call may be recorded (it will be!) before any phones ring.

2. If the call is from a telemarketer, I will transfer the call to sip:lenny@itslenny.com:5060

3. If they are already on my blacklist, they will automatically get transferred to sip:lenny@itslenny.com:5060

Having completed and passed the foundation course and exam, I am now a licenced radio amateur with the call sign M6BYM.

Currently I am only able to on work 2m and 70cm (Baofeng UV-5R) but I expect to be on the 40m and 20m bands shorty, via a Softrock Ensemble RXTX.

I have booked my hotel for Oggcamp, so I hope to see you all there.

Three of us from WolvesLUG (Peter Cannon, Adam Sweet & myself) drove down to Surrey on the Friday. We arrived at Adam's hotel where I failed to run over Popey in the car park. We then made our way to the camp-site at Basingstoke canal centre where the hardier attendees (OggCampers) would be camping. Having setup camp, made a cup of tea for most of the OggCampers, it was off to the William Corbett pub in Farnham, to get something to eat and meet up with the other OggCamp attendees.

I will be driving from Wolverhampton to OggCamp (unless something drastic happens!) so I have a total of 6 seats available (and limited luggage space). I will travel down Friday 12th August afternoon/evening and return Sunday 14th August afternoon/evening.

Cost: I will fill up with fuel on the Friday, and again on the return
to Wolverhampton on the Sunday and we will split the cost of the Sunday fill up equally between us.

I have achieved the top level of certification for IPv6 with Hurricane Electric Apparently this means I will get a free T-shirt.

Congratulations to James and Amrik for 1st & 2nd place, now the answers
as promised complete with citations:

Having failed to cause enough suffering in past years, here is my latest
attempt.

As usual, email your answers directly to me, not to the list.

Previous quizzes are at:
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2003-April/001451.html
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2007-December/023818.html and
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2008-December/025869.html

Lets start with a couple of really easy questions first, later on they
will get quite interesting!

LugRadio Live 2009 is tomorrow!

I hope to see you there