Ham Radio All Portable Discussion Zone
Jun 14, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 12 segments
Stuart M0SGV started soldering at age 8 in the 1950s, building crystal sets with a copper tip heated over a gas cooker. Nearly 70 years later he is still at the bench, building tube transmitters from…
Stuart VanstoneGuestCharlieHostThey have a Thursday meeting.
I don't know if it's Thursday for you.
It probably is still, right? Um-
Thursday evening.
And for me it's Thursday late afternoon.
Um, it's a really good club.
And, uh, what, what...
How did you find them and, and what got you to involved in, in, uh, joining them on a regular basis?
Well, I, I, I've, I've been to, to the, um, four days in May event at, uh, Dayton and the Hamvention and all that sort of thing.
And I think it was on the second time, I was flying in from California and stopped at, at...
You have to change usually in, on the internal flights, don't you, for, for Dayton.
Right
And I s- I was sat next to a guy who was actually Pete, and I got talking to him.
"And, and Four Days in May." And I said, he, he s- he said, "Well, I, I got some friends meeting me at the airport." I said, "Oh, you could give me a lift, could you, to Fairthorne?" [laughs] So he phoned them up and said, "Can you, can you give a, an Englishman a lift?" And they, they agreed to it, and that was, um, Ernie and Ed.
Oh, wow.
Nice.
They have a Thursday meeting.
I don't know if it's Thursday for you.
It probably is still, right? Um-
Thursday evening.
And for me it's Thursday late afternoon.
Um, it's a really good club.
And, uh, what, what...
How did you find them and, and what got you to involved in, in, uh, joining them on a regular basis?
Well, I, I, I've, I've been to, to the, um, four days in May event at, uh, Dayton and the Hamvention and all that sort of thing.
And I think it was on the second time, I was flying in from California and stopped at, at...
You have to change usually in, on the internal flights, don't you, for, for Dayton.
Right
And I s- I was sat next to a guy who was actually Pete, and I got talking to him.
"And, and Four Days in May." And I said, he, he s- he said, "Well, I, I got some friends meeting me at the airport." I said, "Oh, you could give me a lift, could you, to Fairthorne?" [laughs] So he phoned them up and said, "Can you, can you give a, an Englishman a lift?" And they, they agreed to it, and that was, um, Ernie and Ed.
Oh, wow.
Nice.
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