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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yay we've made it to 5 years
---------------------------------------- All those PC's are doing the trick As you can tell I survived my my brief foray over the border I went through Earby en-route After the here be dragons quote as soon as I saw the Town's sign at the side of the road.... Yorkshire was once 15,718 km2 Belgium is 30,528 km2 So Yorkshire is more than 1/2 the size of Belgium You can fit 6 Luxembourg's in a Yorkshire or a whole East Temor but not quite a Kuwait or a Swaziland. Greetings World from God's Own County  Dave  |
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rogerggbr
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Excellent stats Dave.
I hail from Huddersfield, long rumoured to be the largest town in the UK. Apparently it is actually only 6th largest. Probably depends how you count it - many villages around the area also have the HD postcode. |
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David Autumns
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We're currently 4,872th on points and storming up the charts
----------------------------------------Anyone else like to lend a hand so we can get on that first page. Hudderfield.... in the shadow of Emley Moor Mast. Yorkshire's Eiffel Tower. I used to work at the foot of that tower thankfully not in 1969 http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=336&pageid=69 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFwMeHUJXZ8 The replacement is 1084ft Tall. Taller than The Shard and taller by 21ft than the Eiffel Tower. ...but not quite so many visitors Driving up the M1 you know your nearly home as the tower looms into view after Sheffield. More info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emley_Moor_transmitting_station Every single time I came out of those buildings at the foot of the mast I would, involuntarily, say "Whoa!" Never ceases to amaze me https://maps.google.com/?ll=53.612218,-1.6640...0.006196&t=h&z=18 I have to confess to being a Radio Ham many moons ago  Dave |
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rogerggbr
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I have also had the pleasure of a visit to Emley, including a tour of the control room and a trip up the mast. Good view from up there.
I can see the top half of the mast from our village and get a cracking TV signal. (p.s. also a lapsed radio ham - licensed in 1981) |
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David Autumns
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rogerggbr that cool
----------------------------------------I'm 1982 vintage (Golf 6 X-ray November Foxtrot) LOL I never went up to the microwave room but I did replace the telephone exchange driving the call centre at the foot of the mast. That was a 3am kick off I won't forget in a hurry Would have loved to have gone up rogerggbr I've got friends all over the world, all over the world... none in this country, but friends all over the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg03Dm4y1ao I was bought up on Tony Hancock's The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham. Serves him right he shouldn't be out in a boat at this time of night Classic [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Jul 4, 2013 12:43:51 AM] |
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rogerggbr
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for the links - just brilliant. My favourite line of his is still "that's very nearly an armful". My first licence was G6CNY then I did the morse and got G4UFZ in 1983 (see QRZ). Went to the local radio club this week for the first time since the 80's (www.G4CDD.net) and saw some faces 30 years older than I remembered! Currently listening on 20m band to a guy in Barcelona. Don't think he is called Manuel. Roger |
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David Autumns
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LOL I'm sorry but I'm not walking around with an empty arm for anyone
---------------------------------------- I was a member of Leeds and District (The LAD's) which appears to be no more  remnants here http://www.yorkshireraynet.org/ Never could do the Morse. Hopeless with languages too. Once copped for the midnight till 4am stint of a 24 hour mobile contest. Spent most of the time squashing moths drawn by the light into the Caravan at the top of the hill. here Well that's my first years worth of crunching for the Bandits  I saw the Sun at the weekend. This week it's the Great Yorkshire Show so it will be mayhem in Harrogate for the rest of the week. Tuesday until Thursday Can't work out why not over the weekend? I'll be working Have you heard? We have the Tour de France next year!!!! That's the kind of irony a Yorkshire man or lady loves Onwards..... |
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