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Filey Bay Today – in print

One of my local aurora photographs made the front page of the April 2023 magazine

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Massive aurora over Filey

Thursday 23rd March 2023 saw the tail end of a CME “whip” past the earth which triggered an auroral event that lasted 18 hours. The corona was seen over MorayshireContinue readingMassive aurora over Filey

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Aurora featured on local media

This is the Coast Radio The Yorkshireman Radio York

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Filey aurora

Never seen the aurora as clear as this from Filey before …

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Partial Solar Eclipse

A partial solar eclipse graced the UK on 25th October 2022. I managed to grab the solar scope, took 38GB of video and so far, just got one photo outContinue readingPartial Solar Eclipse

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Cobwebb / Inverted L performance (FT8 data mode)

Having replaced the Prosistel PST1524TV Vee beam with the G3TPW Cobwebb (ie the original design), tuned the antenna for cw/data segments, I am now checking the performance on each ofContinue readingCobwebb / Inverted L performance (FT8 data mode)

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New antennas at G4KIV/G1G

I had a “play” a few weeks ago in the RSGB DX contest. I only used morse code and I didn’t bother with 80m but still came 4th in theContinue readingNew antennas at G4KIV/G1G

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Garden Bar

Perhaps my biggest DIY project yet …. garden planters and a fruit cage are one thing but a garden bar this is quite a challenge. Here is the progress soContinue readingGarden Bar

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Muston Cinema

Thanks to my son, we have almost completed the build of Muston Cinema. 4k Projector and a 5:2:2 (Dolby Atmos) setup at the business end and acoustic panels on theContinue readingMuston Cinema

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Muston Lake

So barbeque season has begun and I have been wanting to get the garden looking nice. Working on filling two large stone flower beds – recently emptied, rebuilt, rotavated andContinue readingMuston Lake

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