We know how some of you are, hanging on to your computers until they give up their last gasp, or where you just can't get anything to run on them any more. Anyway, here's advance notice for you. If you've Service Pack 3 XP then the clock is starting for it to no longer being supported. Of course if you never connect it to the net, it just runs the programs you want and you don't mind it will make no difference. However if you do have it on line, then on the 8th April 2014 there will be no more updates. Well if your machine couldn't take SP3 it could be a problem now.

     You may think that the winter is a quiet period for the Riggwelters, well it couldn't be be much different. That's when we start to plot the events for the rest of the year.
     Already in the offing is an event for the Jubilee, but that's one being organised over in Easingwold by Nigel G1JKE. We wanted a suitable event that wold be a nice warmup for the group and an introduction to some of the newly licenced members of the club. An ideal one would involve elements such as the great outdoors, space to experiment, and of course a pub (that does food).