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I went over to Portsmouth this morning. Some of our friends from the Isle of Wight Radio Society came over and we went to the Royal Maritime Club for breakfast. TRhe RMC does a very nice buffet breakfast which I thoroughly enjoyed, especially as I didn’t have to pay for it. One of our friendsContinue reading “1540 – Breakfast & Bus Passes”

I’ve just had a quick look back at the posts I’ve made over the last week. Of the seven posts three are about reasonable topics and four are slightly more than just marking time. Well, that’s how I feel. The trip to Salisbury, the Camera Club and what we did on Sunday are reasonable posts.Continue reading “1539 – Marking Time”

Thursday Night is TNN Time. TNN is the Thursday Night Net. Conducted via a repeater on the Isle of Wight. Tonight, there were 12 people on the net. The question asked tonight was an interesting one; how do you explain Amateur Radio (AR) to the public. That isn’t meant to imply that “the public” isContinue reading “1538 – Thursday Night”

I managed to get out for a walk this morning. I know the title of tonight’s post says between the rain, and although it had rained at one point, I couldn’t tell you how big the gap was between the two rainy periods. I’m reading the Agenda Reports Pack for the upcoming Gosport Borough CouncilContinue reading “1537 – Between the Rain”

I went out for a walk this afternoon, when I’d finished for the day. I thought I would have dinner out as we were going to the camera club this evening. One the “You Tubers” I watch is a lady called Kim Grant, she’s a photographer from Scotland, and does videos that a kind ofContinue reading “1536 – Camera Club”

If you are able to have a closer look at the fronds of the palm trees you’ll see that they are a bit blurry. That’s not my shaking the camera. The walk was a bit windy. A very brisk south westerly. There was quite a nip in the air. I was down for lunch whenContinue reading “1535 – The Weather”

We went to the Sailmaker for lunnch. I think it was a case of rebellion against cooking and I never complain about having a nice carvery, so that was OK. Afterwards, we drove down to the waterfront to see what was going on in the Solent, The wind was blowing a bit of a breese,Continue reading “1534 – Sunday”

We went to Salisbury today. Our first port of call was the South Coast Photographic Federation Exhibition. The members of the federation comprise the 66 clubs. For the exhibition, each club selects 6 prints from its members for the display. I can’t really do justice here to the quality of the pictures on display. theyContinue reading “1533 – A moment in History”

Quite a while ago, I paid a visit to the Motte & Bailey near the Apple Dumpling Bridge in The Alver Valley. It went because I wanted to make a video of the site, but to be honest it was so feeble that I ditched it. I want to go back and try again toContinue reading “1532 – A re-visit is due”

Being Thursday, tonight was the Thursday Night Net held over the repeater on the Isle of Wight, with it’s connection to the internet, the turnout was pretty good including regulars Bill from Corona, California and Bob from Tennessee. Dave, G7EPE the Net Controller usually gives a topic for us to ponder and tonight was noContinue reading “1531 – Memories”