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Trip to Scotland

I am away on holiday, I drove to Scotland this morning with my son Jeremy. We did a Geocache on the way up near St Abbs and had a short walk along the the coast path before heading up to the Dunbar Camping and Caravan Club site near Dunbar.

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The above is a view south towards St Abbs.

However getting away was a bit of a rush – thanks to the “tech support” at U***** (more of that story later when I have time to write it up). In the rush I have left my sleeping mat behind – thanks U*****.

(You are not going to get the ADSL tech support story yet as my client has decided the best place for him to sort this issue is to take them to court.)

Better luck was on our side when it came to pitching the tent. We had just got the fly sheet up when the first spots of rain came along. It is a pitch the outer first tent, so we hurried and managed to get the inner up and all the equipment in before the heavier rain came along. I am now sitting in the tent, listening to the rain, drinking tea! Excellent.

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The Little Frog Group

Because it was good weather this morning, Mark from The Little Frog Group, used his alternative transport to get to our business meeting.

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I’m not a motorcycle enthusiast, so I cannot tell you what it is, but it is old and Mark restored it to it’s current condition – when he first got the bike it was a bit of a wreck! So if you know someone who has a pet “restoration” project that has stalled then give the Little Frog Group a call and see if they can help (details in the side bar).

update – Mark has subsequently told me it is a BSA A7.

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RSGB VHF NFD

Lincoln Short Wave Club took part in this year’s VHF National Field Day contest from the regular site we use near Brattleby.

The station was equipped with 6m, 4m, 2m, 70cms and 23cms – with all the stations set up in pne of the tents, using dual headphones to keep the noise down, but the 2m station also had a speaker feed for the people not operating to keep up with what was going on. Each station position was eqipped with a laptop running WinTest for the logging and I networked the laptops to share information. One of the laptops had a 3g internet connection and WinTest then passed cluster information to all the stations.

RSGB VHF NFD
RSGB VHF NFD
RSGB VHF NFD
RSGB VHF NFD

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New NAS in the Office

For a couple of years we have been using a Dlink NAS at the office – without too much trouble, its interface is a bit clunky, and there were some problems with my Windows 7 laptop when I first got it, but other than that it has worked fine.

As part of our new Distaster Recovery service to clients we have been specifying Iomega NAS boxes, as the storage on the Dlink is starting to be a limiting factor I replaced it with a Iomega StorCenter ix2-200. The 4TB model set up for mirror raid, giving 2TB of storage.

It is an excellent box. Easy to use and configure, I have allocated space to the company with various levels of access as well have having space for the family to store images and media. I have it protected by a UPS controlled from the NAS.

One of the things I am lookking forward to is the availability of an iPhone client so I can make full use of the cloud services installed on the device.

Iomega StorCenter ix2-200
Iomega StorCenter ix2-200

 

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IRLP

This is an early image of the amateur radio IRLP station that Roger G3PVU and I are making. It will be located near Lincoln city center and be available on the 70cms repeater GB3LS.

LSWC IRLP Station
LSWC IRLP Station

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