….because I was featured in a Southgate news post. It reads:
UK Beginners licence and M17 DMR in KB6NU blog
Dan Romanchik KB6NU is well known from his appearances on the amateur radio ICQ Podcast. In his blog he looks at the proposal by the RSGB VHF Manager to introduce a Beginners license in the UK
Dan notes that basically, what John G4SWX is proposing is a low-power VHF/UHF (144/430 MHz) license. See the UK Beginners license blog post at
https://www.kb6nu.com/rsgb-vhf-manager-proposes-beginner-license/Dan also looks at the M17 DMR project started by Wojciech Kaczmarski SP5WWP which is a community-driven, truly open, free to use digital radio system. It’s a DMR alternative, if you will. All schematics and source code is available for free on github, see
https://www.kb6nu.com/m17-an-open-source-dmr-like-system/