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On Wednesday my cable box stopped working. At the time I was rather annoyed.

Thursday night I was at my Radio Club (even won 2 trophies – visit 2E0TZO link) so didn’t want to watch any television.

Still my cable box was not working (tried unplugging for longer periods) and missed the launch of Big Brother. This annoyed me a bit, especially starting on a Thursday, but on Saturday I found a repeat on E4.

Well I think now it was a blessing that my box is broken because of the Shabhaz housemate.

So for now, I am fine reading the C4 website and DS:BB sites for updates.

In regards to the actual box, I phoned my cable company on Friday and was told Tuesday would be earliest to send engineer. I asked about possibly phoning on Saturday to find a cancellation, but was told there probably won’t be any. 1pm on Saturday I phoned them again and low and behold I got an engineer early Monday. Sometimes it pays to be persistant.

G3DCZ Golden Jubilee Trophy

Originally uploaded by Gadget17.

What are you on about?
I knew I had won the Monday Night Contest (the Small tankard) at the Local Radio Club Sutton and Cheam Radio Society. Basically each complete year club members have to work as many stations between 20:00 – 00:00 every Monday. 2 points awarded for non-club members, 5 for members (approx 65 members in club) and 30 for club calls (2 club calls), but I also had another surprise.

I won the Sutton and Cheam Radio Society’s G3DCZ Golden Jubilee Trophy. It takes into account things like, attendance at Club meetings, participation in contests, entries in construction contests, and some other things for good measure. The Chairwomen (and myself) had to do a double check. I was in Shock.

So these now have pride of place (dependent on Nephew being able to reach) on our sitting-room TV.

What’s Next? Maybe the Advanced (Full) Licence!

Gadget17 is Back.

There were some problems on the old site at gadget17.symbiandiaries.com, but I salvaged some of the info I had.

The main thing was the Links to Series 60 Stuff. Don’t worry it’s not gone. I have now made tastier. Yes it’s Del.icio.us. The links will be maintained at Del.icio.us/Series60 for your perusal. Enjoy.

My own list of links is at Del.icio.us/Gadget17.

Yesterday afternoon I heard and worked a couple of Mills operating for the National Mills Weekend. I will be listening again today when I get up for more stations, although I will probably work more if my HF antenna was operational.

Link with Info about NMW:- http://www.g4cdd.net/stations.html

Must also make sure Envelopes are lodged with the Bureau so I can start getting my QSL cards I have been sent.

Was good to see everyone who attended the Kempton Radio Rally.

I didn’t take many photos, so pop along to the Whitton Amateur Radio Group (WARG) link and check out the news section for the photos.