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G3UML

Posted: 08 Oct 2016 01:30 PM PDT
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Episode 114 - Laurie margolis - G3UML Sometimes, amateur radio can play
an important role in shaping the news around World Events. For BBC
correspondent and amateur radio operator, Laurie Margolis, G3UML, it was on
amateur radio that Laurie discovered, reported and scooped the invasion by
Argentina of the Falkland Islands starting the Falklands war in 1982.
Laurie and I discuss this event and the rest of his ham radio journey in
this QSO Today. Show Notes
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The BBC's Laurie Margolis broke news of Falklands invasionA family and its
rubbish - an everyday story of unnecessary wasteTwitter G3UMLDXpedition to
Kiritimati (Christmas Island)
Father, Maurice Margolis, G3NMR

Movie: Laurie's father, Maurice, was inspired to amateur radio by the movie
Race for Life

Eddystone receivers

Radio Society of Great Britain

Collins KWM1 Transceiver

First License: 1964, Age 14, G3UML

Jonathan Margolis, brother, technology writer for financial times

First Rig:
KW Viceroy SSB Transmitter
Hammarlund HQ 170 receiver
Cubical Quad

Favorite Bands and mode: 10, 15, and 20 meters. 90% of the time on SSB
KH7X Ohau Contest Club

Current Rig: Yaesu FT2000 transceiverSPE Expert 1K - 1Kw amp with antenna
tunerTriband dipoleInverted L 80 metersDelta loop on 40 meters
EZhang - slingshot to shoot pull string over a tree

Eddie Giorgadze, 4L4FN, operated from North Korea

AMSAT

United Nations World Food Program

Chelsea College

London University - Journalism

UK 30 Year Rule

King Hussein of Jordan, JY1, 1970, London

IRA 2001 blew up BBC television television center

Falkland Islands, "Crown Possession"

South Georgia Island

Langham Hotel Office Block, London

G3AYC club station

Bob, VP8LP, Falkland Islands - Lauries contact in the Falklands that told
him of the invasion

Port Stanley, the "city" of the Falkland Islands

Lord Carrington

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK when the Falklands were invaded

Armenian Earthquake 1990

Peace for Galilee invasion, 1982

Miners Strike in Great Britain

IRA terrorism

London Tube train bombings, 2005

T32C Christmas Island DXpeditions

G5ATM was King Husseins UK call sign

Peter Snow, BBC correspondent and author or Leilas Hijacked War

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