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Not a bad result. www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfr... #rsgb #ft8

An excellent evening with Gryphon at Trading Boundaries. Only 51 years since I first saw them at Crystal Palace.

Sporadic E propagation on 6m at the weekend

I’ve completed a restoration of this beautiful Beogram 900. Not much needed doing: mainly tidying up the woodwork and replacing the bulbs with LEDs.

My son spotted this curiosity in a charity shop and bought it for me. It’s a bit of a novelty item, but actually rather good! Have you come across it, @sidsmith.bsky.social ?

Today’s solar noon transit in Acireale Cathedral, Sicily

Ceramic insulators. Catania, Sicily.

Italy still has Teletext!

#Perplexity.ai gave me this suggestion for a short comedy story. Heard it somewhere before, perhaps?

"The Great Gourmet Night Disaster"
Basil and Sybil, the bickering owners of The Wobbly Wheel pub, decide to host a gourmet night to attract a more upscale clientele

Quite a crowd up at Newlands Corner looking for planets

The planet parade continues. 6 planets visible in the night sky, into late February. But what about Mercury?

Forecast is for clear skies tonight. We might take our binoculars up to Newlands Corner just after sunset. www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planeta...

Tomorrow’s #SilverAIProject for #Guildford #u3a looks at some more advanced generative AI image creation tools

Not sure if you attended the @u3acommunities.org #fediverse talk (follow-up & recording here https://u3acommunities.org/is-it-time-to-move-to-the-fediverse-followup/).

The talk included a suggestion that maybe, #u3a world-wide could create and manage our own #fediverse instance. We can set our […]

At what point does a loaf become a work of art? #homebaking

The monthly #Guildford #u3a talk today is on the #NT work at Munstead Wood guildford.u3asite.uk/u3a_events/m...

“Prediction” back issues

After many years of using the Apple calculator, I’ve only just realised that it has an RPN mode

We find evidence of secret groups trading YOUR Nectar points Criminals are using secret channels to sell Nectar card balances to defraud unsuspecting customers, This Is Money can reveal.

I’ve had 12,000 Nectar points stolen. Seems to be a common occurrence. Nectar customer service have been informed, and have assured me I will be refunded. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/beatth...

I owned one. Excellent machine.

Not forgotten, as I owned one. Excellent machine.

A walk on the North Downs Way today. Newlands Corner to Dorking.

Yes, that’s me!

My results from yesterday’s 2m contest. Unfortunately my QTH is very poor for VHF. www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfr...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Made from paper

Amazing!

Icom. Mainly because our contest group has standardised on it. addiscombe.club

Good copy on the 18:17 Q&A from Guildford, UK