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Showing posts with label Radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radio. Show all posts
Friday, 26 February 2021

Lyme Park, sans Mountain Rescue

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After my last, abortive, trip to Lyme Park, a re-match was in order. I met up with Kay at Nelson Pit, Higher Poynton, on a lovely early sp...
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Monday, 19 January 2015

Sunday 11th January, Hide and Seek

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Playing Radio To recap, for those who haven’t been paying attention, this is Hide and Seek with radios. Some poor unfortunate will hide the...
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

14th December, Radio Direction Finding on Top Band

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Variously described as orienteering with radios or hide and seek for grown-ups (or not very grown-up in most cases). The general idea is th...
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Monday, 23 June 2014

Saturday 21st June 2014, Bletchley Park

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The longest day, a visit to the home of the WW2 'Code Breakers' First the bad news: the nights are closing in. It gets better: ...
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Monday, 29 April 2013

For those in peril on the sea

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It’s dead easy to get side-tracked whilst browsing t’interweb – this happened to me yesterday as I was searching out information on the now ...
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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Saturday 13th April, Coronal Mass Ejection

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Don’t rely on your SatNav / GPS devices for navigation this weekend – Thursday’s large Solar Flare and subsequent CME could temporarily knoc...
Thursday, 24 January 2013

24th January, A low noise receive aerial

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Modern electronic equipment is the curse of the radio enthusiast. The amount of interference generated by computers, television sets etc...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Wednesday 12th September, Getting the aerial up higher

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Winter is approaching fast so I’ve been messing about with my aerial system at home. The aerial is a half-wave dipole for 80m fed with twin...