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My main hobby. I have always been interested in radio and electronics, and Amateur Radio was a natural progression to my interest. I have held an Amateur Radio licence for about 30 years. My wife also has a licence, getting interested after watching me talking on the air. That is most useful as I can call her up on my way home from work in the car and find out whats for dinner! My main activity within the many diverse areas of Amateur Radio is Direction Finding. |
Steam Engines and Railways I
have a passing interest in steam engines and railways. I always enjoy watching steam engines on television and have visited most of the preserved railways in southern England. Of particular interest is the Bodmin and Wenford Railway which we visit when on holiday in Cornwall. |
Swimming I do not engage in much sport, but do enjoy swimming. At the time that the A-Team was formed, the average number of lengths that I could do was about a dozen, and my all-time record was 24. A great advantage of the A-Team Headquarters is that they were right next door to the swimming pool. This meant that we could be in the pool ten minutes after leaving our desks, get some lengths in, and still be back in time to eat our lunch within our lunch-hour! By going to the pool regularly once a week, enabled me to build up my ability, and by the time that the A-Team was disbanded, the "norm" was 32 lengths straight off. I still try to get to a pool whenever I can, and aim for the 32. My all-time record now stands at 72 lengths in one visit to the pool, although not continuous! |
Photography The majority of the photographs on this site were taken by me. Pre- 2007 they were taken with my Olympus OM10 SLR. As digital camera resolution improved, I felt I had to change to the new technology. I had already started working with digital photographs, as for the last couple of years, I always had my pictures scanned on to a CD at the time of processing. It took about six months, and many camera magazines to choose the right digital SLR. In the end it was between a Canon and a Nikon, equally matched, and the final choice was how it felt in the hand. In the end I chose a Nikon D40X. It has a wide range of features and settings, but for most of the time, it takes beautiful photographs on the "auto" setting, where the camera takes care of everything. As a companion to the SLR I also have a Panasonic FX07 compact camera. For a camera with such a tiny lens, the Panasonic takes remarkably good photographs, every bit as good as the Nikon. It does have it's limitations though, particularly in very low light. It does however, have a good range of focal length. A great advantage of digital photography is the ability to see the photographs immediately, although this does lead to taking far more shots than with a film camera. Web site creation is also far easier, as the scanning stage is no longer required. For showing other people my digital photographs, I tried putting them on a DVD to show on the television, but the most successful method is to put the photographs on a laptop computer, and let the viewer control the speed at which they wish to look at the photographs using a dedicated viewing program. |
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