ISS and Space-related discussion

[Stay Frosty]

Wow - that is a setup and a half.
In the old days I had a CB. Does that count?

Yep, that's where many amateurs including myself came from.
Back in the day (late 70s and 80s) as CBers we were everywhere but in my case mainly up a hill splattering my signal all over the globe making friendships and freeloading trips to the US and hosting fellow international nutters back this way.
The rotary clothesline is an Hexbeam and that's about as small as a 20 metre and up HF directional antenna comes sadly.
For some reason Ofcom increased our power limit from 400 Watts to a full kilowatt last April so now I've got enough power to set fire to our curtains, or more responsibly to use slightly more than 400 Watts and cause more splatter than I ever managed as a CBer!

 

[Andy McCannick]

Make the most of the ISS

 

[Kind of Blue]

The Sun, something is eating it! Don't forget! Partial eclipse 10am this day!

 

[whodat]

Proselytising around the local park this morning like a demented missionary. Going up to teams of footballers
Me: 'Excuse me, would you like to look at the partial eclipse?' - 'Hello - hello yes you come here look at the eclipse' - 'no, come here look, look'.
Them: 'Wha? Ya wha? Waddyawa? Ay?'
Me shake eclipse glasses, point them at ground, put them on face, look up to sun and say 'look'.
Them: 'Grrrrrrr, waddyawan?'
Eventually get one of them to copy my actions.
Them: 'f***inell wow whatsat wow nice jeez'
All, repeat the last line.
Ah, feel better now.

 

[Kind of Blue]

Proselytising around the local park this morning like a demented missionary. Going up to teams of footballers
Me: 'Excuse me, would you like to look at the partial eclipse?' - 'Hello - hello yes you come here look at the eclipse' - 'no, come here look, look'.
Them: 'Wha? Ya wha? Waddyawa? Ay?'
Me shake eclipse glasses, point them at ground, put them on face, look up to sun and say 'look'.
Them: 'Grrrrrrr, waddyawan?'
Eventually get one of them to copy my actions.
Them: 'f***inell wow whatsat wow nice jeez'
All, repeat the last line.
Ah, feel better now.

Can not blame them, its all that contra coo brain damage.

 

[roadtripper]

Didn't risk one of my scopes this weekend but I do have an old 400m telephoto lens with a tripod mount and an eyepiece adaptor so knocked up a projection setup to show the YoungUns what was happening - good enough to see the sunspot on the sun surface

Also we noticed a distinct drop on the solar generation even if it still felt like a sunny day so I remembered to record the day's graph for posterity. Something very pleasing that the bite taken out of the solar peak sort of matches the bite taken out of the the sun

 

[Stay Frosty]

While all this factual evidence is highly enlightening it should be noted that us ex CBers... sorry radio amateurs in the Northern hemisphere suffered a major radio blackout, pretty much line of sight transmissions only.

 

[Sackmycook]

I'm sure I've just seen Jeff Bezos falling down a hole after Blue Horizon landed ??

 

[Anakin]

Did he fall in with Katy Perry?

 

[Stay Frosty]

Katy Perry hole drama?

 

[Sasquatch]

I'm sure I've just seen Jeff Bezos falling down a hole...

That'll be Lauren Sanchez.

 

[Sackmycook]

I knew I wasn't imagining it lol

The irony is overwhelming...! Mankind

 

[Sasquatch]

Elon dug that hole last night.