Did Kinder Scout G/SP-001 this morning on my way to Doncaster Racecourse for tonight’s Christmas Live gig.
Walked my favourite route - from Rushup Edge following the byway then flagstone path to Brown Knoll, before turning right and dropping to join the Pennine Way for the final approach.
Just four QSOs on my 2m FM handheld. One of these was Anne 2E0LMD who passed through 3000 chaser points as a result of our contact. Congratulations Anne and thanks for your continuing support for us VHF activators.
On the descent, between Brown Knoll and Rushup Edge, I spotted several of these. Anyone know what they are?
Aw, I much prefer the new transpennine railway route theory. If it was, then no doubt the plastic would be fully bio degradable within 6 months leaving not a trace!
Exactly David. I’m planning a 5 mile circular walk near Eyam during the Christmas holiday but she has a habit of getting up about 10am and leaving the house by midday. I keep reminding her that we’ll need to bring our times significantly forward!
That’s it then, it’s not just markers for any old transpennine railway, this is a going to be super hyperspace expressway built by 42 white mice.
And yes, yet again it’s going dark, bring on 80m.
What amazed me recently was the fact that the earliest sunset in Miami is at the beginning of December and latest sunrise appears to be around 13th January.
One of the first programs I wrote was to solve the Equation of Time so that you knew how to correct the time shown on a sundial to actual time. I was 18 at that time. The stupidity of needing a computer to tell you how many minutes to add/subtract to something as “simple” as a sundial was not lost on me.
It was for a Texas Instruments TI59 programmable calculator that used magnetic cards to save programs. I still have the calculator some 40 odd years later and it still works. The NiCds died and were replaced years ago. However, like lots of old magnetic media, atmospheric moisture and oxygen has reacted with the iron oxides on the cards used to save the data. They have lost their ability to hold data and so this valuable library of early software written by a spotty youth has been lost from the accumulated knowledge of mankind!
