Mike - GM1PIE

Mike - GM1PIE

@michaelrawlins.co.uk

Mancunian in Aberdeenshire, making things better for people & communities by delivering #smartjustice across the Shire. Interested in 3D printing. Fairweather MX5 driver. Occasionally, G1PIE on the amateur bands. It's ok to be misunderstood.

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So far, I think the worst of #stormboelo has missed us. Other than rain, it was very quiet throughout the night. Chucking it down now, but nothing more than a slight breeze.

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Met the love of my life from a reply to a Missed Connection ad in a paper. It was fake but led to a ton of dates. Now happily married 11 yrs to "mysterious brunette in blue top on circle line" and daren't confess the truth. But I suspect she was nowhere near the train either.

Mike - GM1PIE reposted

Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more was lost in attics and basements. 📻 Kay Savetz on recovering magazines, recordings, and manuals. 📚 "Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications" is in VANISHING CULTURE. 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

Just ordered myself a sit stand desk. I am going to change the office/shack around. The plan is to get my radio's on the desk closer to my PC and screens.

Done some radio! Got people in the log and everything. I do need to sort out my antenna situation. We are trying to move, so I have been putting off anything until we do, but the market is slow, so we probably won't move this year. So I think I may put a vertical up, be better than the EFHW

The noise floor has increased significantly since I last had the radio set up. Not sure what has changed, but it is S5-6 across the bands, which is annoying. I may look at a loop on ground for rx, a good excuse to by the 7300 Mk2.. But I don't have the money this month.

These kids chairs in the dentist waiting room are upsetting me. Some absolutely feral animal, put the back on one of the chairs on wrong. Why would you do this?!

Broken tooth. It had root canal work previously. Appointment to check what can be done. Needs to be crowned. As I was booking appointments for the work, late November being the earliest appointment a cancellation came in for this morning. I think you call that winning at Monday.

The Four Lions 'terror attack' has done something then.

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.eu

“The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States.”

BBC Scotland is possibly on the chopping block in the next round of BBC cuts.

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social

Jake Canter: New: The BBC is expected to announce the closure of TV and radio services early next week. Speculation is rife that BBC Three is at risk of being unplugged for a second time in a decade. Nothing is confirmed at this stage.

I have done some *really* sketchy stuff over the years to get things done. But this guy, no PPE, chainsaw chain doesn't stop when you release the handle, it merely slows down, a bit. Working it at eye level up a ladder. Nearly bounced himself off the ladder just now.

Done the bins, in Spain. Much better system here, take your bin bags about 50 meters, chuck it in a trade waste style bin. No worries about what colour bin, just lob it in.