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Welcome to the planning page! The essential plan is not to be so frenetic as we were in Iceland!
Jennifer has booked the flights and accommodation.
The total cost, including insurance, is £273.99 each.
1. Jennifer to check lead time for check in at Gatwick
2. Transport: Nick to go direct to airport. Others as a single group from Cambridge
The plan is to get the coach down and taxi back.
Coach leaves Cambridge 13:10 gets to Gatwick at 16:45. Jenny to check out possibilities for large taxi/minibus.
UPDATE: Looks like the two vans will be going and staying in the long term
parking. (AF)
3) Jenny to get in contact with Dave Topham in Malta (if possible)
4) Radio, Rick to organise Qty 3 UHF portables and check license conditions in Malta.
UPDATE: Looks like there is no agreement with the UK, RSGB checking (Rick)
5) Insurance/Medical/Airline-Failure has been purchased
6) Money, Bernie has obtained local currency for various people
7) Mobile roaming agreements in force, cheap phone cards available (ptek)
8) Turd-watch! There were problems recently: keep an eye on the local
press:
9) Accommodation: Qty 1, 3 bedroom apartment and Qty 1, 2 bedroom apartment booked.
10) Car hire - organise if required when we get there
11) Take a torch
12) Take your own medicines - they are expensive over there.
13) Tap water not good, use bottled water
14) No Cradle of Filth T-Shirts please, might offend the locals
DON'T FORGET PASSPORT!
Gatwick to Malta: 19:10 25th Sep 23:10 25th Sep 2001
Malta to Gatwick: 00:10 3rd Oct 02:15 3rd Oct 2001
Outward: Catch the 14:58 at CMK for Gatwick Airport, arrives 16:22
Return: wait for the 5:52, arrives CMK 7:31.
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Jennifer has found accommodation in two self catering apartments in Bugibba (North coast, near St Paul's Bay).
It's called the Winston Complex (or Winston Apartments).
L-Imrejkba Street, Qawra, Malta.
Phone: (+356) 572039; Fax: (+356) 577419
http://www.destinationmalta.com/winston.htm
http://www.mol.net.mt/winston/index.htm
Malta obtained independence from the UK in 1964. In 1974 it became a Republic.
Malta, Gozo and Comino, the inhabited islands of the Maltese archipelago, lie at almost the exact geographical heart of the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily is some 60 miles to the North, Tripoli 220 miles to the South and Tunis 200 miles to the West. Malta is at the crossroads between continents.
A neighbour who used to live there says: "Its a tiny place, only 28 miles across. The water's lovely and clear, not many beaches. The language is difficult to speak."
Malta is not in the EC, so, when travelling, you do go through customs. Also for the same reason,
Malta is not subject to the same health and safety as the rest of Europe.
The water isn't drinkable, and is quite chloriney.
There's no fresh milk. It's imported from Italy and goes off before the best
before date.*correction. See below
They drive in the shade.
Legal drinking age is technically 16, but it's acceptable at any age.
The local beer is good.
You can only take £50 worth of currency into the country in hard cash. The rest
has to be traveller's cheques.
Thinking accommodation, it's probably best to just get a place to stay, as the
food is good and cheap and Maltese cheese cakes are brilliant for breakfast at 3
cents each.
Flight time to Malta is about 3½ hours.
1 Maltese Lira is worth 62p. (As of 17th Sept 2001)
Our local tour guide will be ptek, a.k.a. Gavin.
 The Official Maltese Islands Hotel Guide
www.popeyemalta.com/photogalleries/filmset.htm www.realholidayguides.com/bugibba.htm 100% unofficial Malta Dairy website
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Rick has made enquiries about operating in Malta, and apparently there is NO reciprocal agreement at this time - which basically means
we can't do radio stuff in Malta ... at least not legally! Rick has the RSGB checking to be sure and they're going to send him the latest information.
The UK band plan for the top of 70cms is at http://www.rsgb.org/bandplans/cd1914.htm.
Rick's been busy chasing things up:
> > http://a108.adsl.nextgen.net.mt/marl/info/licence.htm
> >
> > "Malta implements CEPT Recommendation TR 61-01 and no separate license is
> > needed if you have joined CEPT. "
> >
> > get those radios ready!
>
> Hmm, well that wasn't what I was told, and having just received my
> latest licence (its just been renewed this month) it again doesn't
> mention Malta on it in the list of countries with which we have
> agreements!!
Right - more info.
Having not heard from the RSGB yet, I contacted the License Validation
People (as suggested by Dave). They weren't sure but gave me a number
to contact the Radio Communication Agency, which I did. In short, Malta
*were* on the list, but were taken off because they hadn't signed the
paperwork required. The problem is the RCA don't always get informed
when these things change, so she couldn't provide a 100% solid answer,
but said that if the WWW site says they do then she doesn't see a
problem, and she'll chase it up again at this end to see if things are
now 100% legit, and add them back on the list if they have now signed.
Consequently, I'll have a couple of UHF portables available programmed
up with a few channels around 439.5MHz-ish, plus spare ni-cads and a
charger. I'll also take copies of my licence, BR68, and the WWW page.
on FM try these re-broadcasters:
Short wave:
frequencies in kHz
0000-0200 UTC 648
0200-0300 UTC 648 1296
0300-0400 UTC 648 1296 1323
6195
0400-0500 UTC 648
1296 1323 6195 12035
0500-0600 UTC 648
1296 1323 6195
12095
0600-0700 UTC 648 1296 1323
6195 12095
15485
0700-0800 UTC 648 1296 1323
9410 12095 15485 15565 17640
0800-1500 UTC 648 1296 1323
12095 15485 15565 17640
1500-1600 UTC 648 1296 1323
12095 15485 15565 17640
1600-1700 UTC 648 1296 1323
12095
1700-2100 UTC 648 1296 1323
6195 9410 12095
2100-2200 UTC 648 1296 1323
6195 9410
2200-2300 UTC 648
6195
2300-2400 UTC 648
frequencies in kHz
0000-0030 UTC
1260 1548
0100-0300 UTC
1548
0400-0430 UTC 792
9530
11965 15205
0430-0500 UTC
9530
11965 15205
0500-0530 UTC 792 1197
9530
11965 15205
0530-0600 UTC 792
9530
11965 15205
0600-0700 UTC 792 1197 1260 9530 9680
11805 11965 15205
0700-1400 UTC 1197
1400-1500 UTC 1197 1548
15255
1500-1530 UTC 1260 1548
9700
15205 15255
1530-1600 UTC 1197 1260 1548
9700
15205 15255
1600-1700 UTC 1260 1548
9700
15205 15255
1700-1730 UTC
9700 9760
15255
1730-1800 UTC 1197
9700 9760
15255
1800-1830 UTC 1197
9760 9770
1830-1900 UTC 792
9760 9770
1900-2000 UTC
6160 9760 9770
2000-2030 UTC 1197
6095 9760 9770
2030-2100 UTC
1197
6095 9760 9770
2100-2200 UTC 1260 1548 6040 6095 9530 9760
2200-2230 UTC
1548
2230-2400 UTC 1260 1548
OK. Sorry. I apologise. Here's an email from Leo:
...I assure you you can have your daily milk baths as usual during your holiday and as for drinking I doubt if its the milk you'll be after.
Take care and see you soon.
We'll meet up with Land Rover Owners Leo (1989 110") and his friend David for several pints of best Maltese semi-skimmed.