RT65CB-SWL

Very informative. Thank you.

I am thinking about getting the FUNcube dongle. As I live in a studio apartment erecting an external antenna is an issue. I have a few shortwave receivers and at present use a random wire in the loft/attic and the earth wire terminated to the cold water pipe in the airing cupboard & 'Slinky' antenna streched across the ceiling in the bedsit room. I do like the names you have given your shed and installation!

Quote: "...Red light etiquette is an unknown to me, I always observe at home amongst the fairy lights strewn around the garden. As a smoker I worry about lighters, do they affect dark adapted vision? Can I open my car door or do I need to shield the interior lights if I do? So much to learn regarding Star Party etiquette." I removed my interior/courtesy light diffuser, (if that is the right part), and cut a piece of red rubylith to fit and refitted. Job done! - also when entering a site I use my sidelights. I smoke myself and no one has yet said anything to me about lighting up a cigarette (roll-up or ready made), cigar, pipe; (though I don't advise it just in case the loose ash accidently drops or gets blown into my optical hardware). Just don't forget the Jaffa Cakes!

I have a copy of 'Visions of Mars' on CD-ROM that I purchased in about 1995/6 when 'Trash Convertors' (erm, sorry 'Cash Converters') opened a branch opposite Reading railway station. It includes a speech by Prof Carl Sagan and included is Orson Welles version of "War of the Worlds".