Just a quick look around the top of Ben Nevis in summer 2014.
Author Archives: David
He asked one simple question. Her answer blew his mind
Enough with the buzzfeed style clickbait titles. Yay!
Eclipse chasing
Can you really be an eclipse chaser if you’ve only actually chased one eclipse? My chased eclipse was August 1999 – south west England. Back in the mid 1980s I had a book of fascinating astronomical facts, it listed the dates of upcoming eclipses until the far-off Year 2000. I decided that I’d see that …
Bugger.
I can’t honestly claim to to have been a massive fan of Terry’s writing – I’ve not read all (or much of it) – Robert Rankin was always more my cup of Tea (or pint of Large). That said I am a massive fan of the man himself and I’ve met many good people, some …
Interesting patterns
Doing a bit more snooping around the radio spectrum with the RTLSDR (My HackRF should be here tomorrow!) I spotted these patterns in the transmitted signals from DAB stations. I’m fairly sure these are not just moiré patterns. I expect they probably tell you something about the multiplexing of the signals in the transmission.