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Jeff -

 

Funny bumping into you on here

 

Have you tried the PRC-320 mailing list over on Yahoo? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prc320/

 

73,

 

Roger

What's up, can you not sleep? will have a look, cheers:kiss:

Hi everybody, I have a Clansman Intelligent Battery Management System that at present is not intelligent. :-( It has a VLO message on the front window, the fault list reads Lower than 21volt input.. :cry: Power supply is pushing out 28.4 volts at the end of the lead. I really have no idea what to do next other than send it to Army Sigs or Aish Tech. Thanks, Jeff

Obviously a weapon the MOD need to consider as part of its cost saving strategy, especially if AlQuida consider it to be offensive to use it against them!

 

A weapon of the future then?

 

D&J

Make it out of PORK :-D

My problem is the number of times I get HMVF site not responding. Needing resets each time.

Takes 3 times as long to make posts so now dont normaly bother

Jeff

I find some of the comments on this thread very bizarre.

 

Rambo - you will not get free entry unless you are a member of IMPS for two consecutive years or more. IMPS costs around £28 per year to join so all in all - that equates to the entry fee for War and Peace per year. Personally I like the extras that go with being a member of IMPS (magazine, newsletters, etc) so I am a member.

 

I know some people feel aggrieved to pay for entry to the War and Peace show but then the same people also complain about the facilities! Unfortunately you can't have your cake and eat it too. After all, where do people think the money for the facilities comes from. I do not know of many places where you can camp for a couple of weeks with your MV, have use of the facilities and pay a measly fee of £25.

 

The facilities at War and Peace are slated by members of the forum for not being up to scratch but can I remind people the facilities are fine until people start abusing them. The people who abuse the facilities are unfortunately our co-MV owners. You can't really blame Rex for the standard of toilets / showers because he does get them cleaned three times a day. What more can he do?

 

 

 

Before I had the love trailer I use to be at the showers and loos at 6am in the morning and they were spotless. No problem with the facilities whatsoever.

 

The alternative is very simple - we hire a toilet every year. Not because the facilities aren't up to scratch but it does avoid a long walk. There are seven of us and it equates to approximately £12 per head. Or you could buy a portaloo for a reasonable amount. If there are no spare funds for such luxuries a bucket costs nothing!!!

 

The issue of showers is easily solved too. A friend of mine uses a 12v pump into a pan with water heating up from a stove. Works a treat and doesn't use much water either.

 

Everything can be overcome with a little thinking and adapting to the surroundings.

 

As for travel distance - hats of to the chappie who drives 530 odd miles to the Beltring site. Well done Sir. But in saying that - would the extra miles to Folkestone really stop you coming. Paying for the amount of fuel you use from Wales already, I'd be surprised if you stopped coming due to the extra miles. If you said, I'm not coming because I can't afford or don't want to drive 530 miles to the Beltring site would be perfectly understandable but to say the extra miles pushes the journey beyond your limits?

 

I wouldn't drive 530 miles for any show. Surely such dedication can cope with the extra mileage.

 

Neil - movement of the big toys. Lets be honest. The cost of moving the big stuff around is not cheap and I obviously know it. I'm glad you acknowledge the subsidised low loader travel that Rex provides because it is precisely these sorts of costs that the £25 entrance fee covers. Someone has to pay for the luxury of low cost transport of the tanks etc. As a big tank owner myself, I am well aware the costs will increase but then I knew that when I purchased the ARRV. Yes it's a blow but if you feel hard done by, imagine how I feel. I keep my kit half a mile from the Hop Farm!!!

 

I shall probably take fewer vehicles next year because of the extra costs and the aggravation of not being next door to the show site but will it stop me coming - not on your life! I suggest those with military fleets to rival the Mexican Army who are going to feee the extra miles take less vehicles. It won't ruin your time at the show.

 

For those members who complain about the extra costs of traveling to the new site I wonder if it will stop you going in to the arena, or driving round and round the show site!!! I doubt it. Or will you avoid the trade stalls because of the extra fuel costs? I don't think so either. Will you take less beer (god help us) or maybe less food? Not on your life!!!

 

The show has moved and that is that. For all the members out there who are deciding whether to go or not I'm sure you will come to your own decision in that respect and I hope you feel it is within your abilities to give the new show a chance. If not then give it a miss but PLEASE stop whinging about it.

 

It's life and life is not fair all the time. In the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter. All I would say it's very annoying to keep reading negative comments when people are doing their best to ensure the show continues.

 

Last year when the show suffered with the very bad weather, all that appeared on the War and Peace thread was bitching about the conditions. Whilst those who complained about Gods work (Really, Rex had nothing to do with the weather) whilst sitting in the comfort of their homes, there were dozens of people doing their best to make the show happen, working 15 hours a day.

 

So all in all - I hope the show is a massive success. I look forward to seeing all my MV co-owners at Folkestone next July come rain, hail, snow or sunshine. The show may have moved but I never went to War and Peace because it was staged at the Hop Farm. It doesn't matter where it is staged - it's still going to be the event of the year. Give it a go - you may like it.

 

If people don't want to give the new show a chance, then go and do something else. Honestly - your absence will not effect my enjoyment of the new show!!

 

Constructive criticism welcome - whinging is not!!!

 

Markheliops

 

Markheliops

Excellent post. Somebody needed to say it.

Jeff

I'm going

hey I am doing my best trying to get people as well for this great event

Possible shared storage in ashford from Feb.

£150 ish per month

pm for details

Jeff

Hi,

Interested if price and location okay!

Jeff

Bout time!!!!!

Jeff :yawn:

Steady on Tony tou know Tolkien is Hobbit forming!:red:

:shocked:

:cool2::-D:-D:-D

Given up for now.. first I was accussed of misleading people & making the place look to muddy & wet, now people are having a pop as my last lot of photos showing the site in sunshine & again is misleading people... :yawn:

 

Seen quite a few HMVF Members today & during the week... there are still people arriving all the time.. there are the odd vehicle getting stuck but they are soon moving again..

Can't please all of 'em all the time mate.:banghead:

Have fun

just lucky that was at the start of the weekend when in a fun mood not at the end when stressed as hand would have been throwing things:wow::wow:at the camera

8.5

:rotfl:

nice piccy, but who is the scruffy 'Erbert with his hand on his hip!!!!!!

 

Looks like you all had a good time

 

Mark

Is it a teapot!????

Dave and Pete have already said thanks to everyone that helped us over the weekend and especially on Sunday evening, it really was appreciated. I think it was Ian and his son who were always the first to ask for jobs. Thanks guys you did a great job on the spuds. Not forgetting young Rosie and of course Joris etc as well. :-)

Shame the tatty peeling gave her the trots and they had to go home. Hope you're feeling better now.:shocked:

As Pete said it really was a shame that the Dutch had to show the Brits how it is done.

If we do it again we will need to book the fine weather instead of the wet. At one time on Saturday night I thought we were going to float away.

Hey Ho as they say, made my hair grow.

Jeff

M3VBL on board.

Cant be assed to do the others

Thanks all,

Used to have a much better tache than Dave's when I was in...................................(No dont remind me, I'll have the screaming ab-dabs):cry:

Dont forget Dave I'll be there with the Marigolds and green checkky trews................

:nut:

Hello again from one of the 118 team.

Will try to get to A & E with Dave the cookhouse this year....

jeff

Good Grief, What a friendly lot.

Thanks all for the welcomes

Too late, already led astray. Trouble is I cant keep up with Dave and the drinking, way out of practice!:rotfl:

Originally from "SARF LONDON INNIT", now in Ashford, so is that kentish man or the other one?

Jeff

Hi everyone, my name is Jeff and I'm 61years young. (The missus says 16):blush:

I would like to think I'm abit laid back and don't take myself too seriously, with a whacky sense of humour, lifes too short.:nut:

Have been part of the re enactment groups for a while dabbling with Clansman radios when I bumped into Dave Ives who persuaded me to go back to my YOOF! and join CWP.