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• At 17:04, 18 October 2009 Paul GM6MEN wrote:

  Good effort, but I too think the shine was taken off it a little by some of the issues raised below. But kudos to Martin for getting himself put up there, and for giving it such a good shot.

• At 09:23, 16 October 2009 Philip Cross G7MWH wrote:

  First, well done Martin, that took some doing, I have read some of the comments posted, and yes, with hind sight I suspose that you could have done things a little difrferently, but that said I should like to see others do it beter, especialy if it was unplaned contacts, A very big subject so little a space of time, I have tried in the past to explain our hobby to sience teachers, what it envolves and the way it compliments the coriculum, one to one or one or two, face to face is reasonably easy, but up there on the plinth, you have my respect, all the best Phil

• At 00:41, 10 October 2009 Steve (M3SXA) wrote:

  Well done....

  73's de Steve

• At 09:13, 04 October 2009 James 2M0JAS wrote:

  Fantastic idea, well done on promoting the hobby in such an unusual way!

• At 01:10, 03 October 2009 Tony wrote:

  NIice idea but flawed presentation. Prerranged contacts,who wre not in contact,using only D-Star No mention of the educational potential .science,physics,mathematics or engineering.and how AR could be useful in promoting learning. A HF rig available never used,comnications possible around the worldut but not demonstrated? Not the best use of a very good platform for promoting AR. Good try though.

• At 20:47, 02 October 2009 George Townsend wrote:

  Great idea. But I do wonder if the reason he is bald is because of the RF floating around his head? Or was it boredom that made it fallout. A good lightning strike would have brightened it up a bit.

• At 07:30, 02 October 2009 G1EGZ wrote:

  Very well done, I wish that others would bring radio, more into the public Eye.

• At 06:43, 02 October 2009 G7AKM wrote:

  Well done martin great ad for amateur radio.

• At 11:57, 01 October 2009 Ray M3ZRJ wrote:

  In response to Gordon MM6YET who, at 15:39, 29 September 2009 wrote "Interesting, but why ruin it with D-Star?",

  may I say that I find D-STAR to be a good VHF/UHF communications system, have had enjoyable conversations with radio amateurs in Australia, the U.S. and Italy, and look forward to its expansion throughout the World.

  I was also the first contact made by GB1AO from the plinth, and my involvement in the event was not planned in advance with any of the other contributors.

  Kind regards,

  Ray M3ZRJ

• At 15:39, 29 September 2009 Gordon MM6YET wrote:

  Interesting, but why ruin it with D-Star?

• At 14:14, 29 September 2009 Gordon G8WWD wrote:

  Hi Martin, Well done. Good effort, but a bit disappointed that you felt the need to have pre-arranged contacts set up, who you appeared to be interviewing with pre-arranged questions. IMHO it would have been much more impressive if you had used HF and made some contacts overseas. 73's Gordon

• At 13:43, 28 September 2009 g8vhi wrote:

  I am sad that you almost never gave your call! Why not

  De G8VHI

• At 16:08, 26 September 2009 Ray M3ZRJ wrote:

  Dear Martin,

  I thought your hour on the plinth was a great advertisement for Amateur Radio.

  I enjoyed talking to you, and hope we can meet up sometime in the near future.

  73 de Ray, M3ZRJ

• At 10:51, 26 September 2009 Martin Lynch ML&S Ltd wrote:

  Congratulations on the promotion Martin. Link added to our www.HamRadio.co.uk website

• At 20:46, 25 September 2009 jimbo wrote:

  WHAT a diddy ! ...

• At 20:39, 25 September 2009 jim wrote:

  just brilliant

• At 19:31, 25 September 2009 M0WWS wrote:

  Well done lad

  --

  de Gareth G1LVN

  http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.radio.amateur/browse_thread/thread/fd35885688e9715b?hl=en#

• At 15:53, 25 September 2009 Steve Potter wrote:

  Hi Martin,

  Well done, enjoyed it, and liked the distraction from work this Friday afternoon.

  73 de Steve

  g6HOQ

• At 15:29, 25 September 2009 isabel wrote:

  nice to see a pirate amongst the admirals

  advice

  if you don't have a garage or alarm it is safer to have a removable car radio !a dummy cover or one that doesn't look expensive they will smash your windows.

• At 15:19, 25 September 2009 Bob - N4XAT wrote:

  Martin:

  Many Thanks for your efforts. Currently, I'm watching you live while you are discussing RAYNET. Too bad that you are not on 20 meters where I could listen to your QSO via amateur radio. Good Luck.

  Bob - N4XAT

  MSARS - CMCARC

• At 14:07, 25 September 2009 Peter M0EJL wrote:

  Splendid idea Martin - well done Icom UK - great for our hobby - propagation has improved a bit over the last few days (may be cycle 24 is with us at last!) wish you all the very best - will of course be listening out for you in my QTH in Lincoln - 73 - Peter

• At 06:41, 25 September 2009 Fellow Plinther Merv wrote:

  Ooops I will be watching at 4pm of course.

  73

  Merv - M6WVE

• At 05:45, 25 September 2009 Fellow Plinther Merv wrote:

  Good luck Martin. I hope you have as much fun in your hour as I did.

  I will be watching live at 5pm and will notify my local club the Mid Sussex Amateur Radio Society to listen out for GB1AO.

  73

  Merv - M6WVE

  www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/merv

• At 19:55, 22 September 2009 Peter G4KCX wrote:

  It sounds like you will have pre arranged contacts rather than pile ups.

  Good Luck Promoting Amateur Radio.

• At 19:05, 21 September 2009 Scott Cairo wrote:

  Isnt this all a bit dangerous!, can I borrow a receiver in time?, can we stream it to the interweb somehow? I'll deal with it if you like. Great Idea. Take a brolly, an earthed one.

• At 18:50, 21 September 2009 Douglas ON4ROS (G1NZB in UK) wrote:

  Best wishes Martin. Our club in Belgium "Radio Club Leuven" offers its support and we hope that some of our members will work your station on Fri 25tth between 17.00-1800 our local time!! Lookout for the Oscar November callsigns. Please email QRV? I presume 80m.

  Best Regards

  Douglas

• At 18:22, 21 September 2009 G1LVN wrote:

  that's better.

  BTW what antenna system are you going to use? You could run a sloper from the top of the column to the plinth and gamma match it against the lightning conductor, bit long for top band admittedly but it should tune ok.

• At 15:12, 21 September 2009 Ronnie K2SST wrote:

  There are two different times listed, are you going to be on different days

  Oct 2 midnight 3.775

  Sept 25 16:00 !7:00 Z

  If you are on at Midnight, time here would be 09:00 Z I may be able to hear you at that time.

  If you can state the Day, Time in Z and Frequency you may get a few more contacts.

• At 10:30, 21 September 2009 Graham Dawes wrote:

  Magic Martin! Let's hope the weather and propagation gods are kind on the day!

• At 17:55, 20 September 2009 G1LVN wrote:

  "Gulf" Bravo one?

• At 11:23, 20 September 2009 Stan Padgham wrote:

  I expect you will be very much in demand. I will listen out for you and try to make a contact. Good luck

• At 21:56, 19 September 2009 2A0XGP wrote:

  Good Luck on the day

• At 22:10, 18 September 2009 John M0JCM wrote:

  Good luck Martin!

• At 21:38, 18 September 2009 Joseph Campbell, G7OKR wrote:

  What type of aerial will you be using?

• At 04:00, 18 September 2009 Paul 2E0GTB wrote:

  Good Luck Martin

  Hope it stays dry for you & make loads of contacts

  www.m3oym.com

• At 14:54, 17 September 2009 JOHN, G7GBJ wrote:

  GOOD LUCK!

  YOU WILL BE WORKING FROM THE CENTRE OF LONDON ! 73

• At 08:19, 17 September 2009 Paul Gi6FEN wrote:

  Congratulations, you beat me to it. I will be on the plinth

  midnight 2nd October for my hour. I have not received my dedicated Call sign yet but hope to be on 80 metres around 3.775 lsb with it or my own G6FEN. I will running a Yeasu FT 857D.

  Every success, hope it stay dry for both of us

  73s etc etc.

  Paul

  Gi6FEN

• At 21:43, 16 September 2009 Ronnie K2SST wrote:

  I wish you a lot of luck in your endeavor, can you tell me what Frequency’s you will be using so I can try and contact you.

• At 20:20, 16 September 2009 Anne Reed 2E1GKY/M3GKY wrote:

  Martin I think you are very brave to be doing this, so hope the weather remains dry and no wind that afternoon.

• At 14:50, 16 September 2009 David, M0XDF wrote:

  Very well done, hope everything goes well. some info on freq and mode would be good, you are going to have one hell of a pile-up!

• At 09:37, 16 September 2009 David G3XYP wrote:

  Good luck with everything, I didnt see any mention of frequencies please can you advise? 1 hour of very rare DX.

• At 03:08, 16 September 2009 Steve MM0SGQ wrote:

  Good luck Martin, will be listening out for you.

  What a great opertunity to raise the profile of amateur radio.

  Steve de mm0sgq

• At 16:37, 15 September 2009 Richard Strafford G3MRT wrote:

  The very best of luck to you Martin: We'll be listening for you.

  Any specific frequency ?

• At 16:13, 15 September 2009 Duncan Tribute, G1OEQ wrote:

  Good for you and good for Amateur Radio and Icom UK! Are you planning to work any HF during your stint, I wonder? Be listening from Truro? Good Luck and 73 - Duncan, G1OEQ

• At 15:44, 15 September 2009 Malcolm wrote:

  Well done Martin. Good luck and good DX! From a professional musician and radio amateur in the north east of Scotland.

• At 15:13, 15 September 2009 doug/g0ldj wrote:

  magic! very entrepeneurial! will listen for you and hope for a QSO. Have tried the email address but yahoo unable to deliver! can you promulgate details on this webpage please!

• At 12:53, 15 September 2009 Chris Taylor wrote:

  Good luck Martin

  Should be fun

  Cheers

  Chris

• At 16:17, 11 September 2009 G8CIX wrote:

  Maggie send me an email please :-)

• At 15:14, 11 September 2009 Ian Lockyer wrote:

  Everyone from Icom UK wishes you the best of luck.

  It is great that you are putting Amateur Radio in front of a mainstream audience.

• At 08:03, 03 September 2009 Maggie Currie wrote:

  Well done you. haven't see you for years and years. Hope you are well. Maybe we can meet up with the rest of the gang for a chinwag soon.

• At 16:48, 10 August 2009 Fruntroom wrote:

  Wow, how cool, sounds fab. Not sure how Frunt Room would translate to the plinth but a great idea. Good luck!

• At 09:39, 09 August 2009 Steve and Jo Castle wrote:

  Great idea, a really interactive 'statue'. Lets hope it stays dry!!

• At 23:20, 07 August 2009 Nicholas_K wrote:

  A lovely idea!

• At 18:09, 03 August 2009 Min wrote:

  Good Luck Martin

  Lets see that the club supports you on this event.

  Even try and get to see you on the 1600-1700 on Fri 25 September 2009.

  Min

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