The view from my "office"

[Rugby]

My office today was on the other side of the harbour watching the Bears win at Henson Park.

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Glad you got the Bears up drron, and I bet the beer queue was much shorter.

 

[drron]

Friday's office at the IC-

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[Milboo]

My office a week ago.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Shute Shield Grand Final this afternoon at a packed North Sydney Oval - perhaps the biggest crowd at the ground in 20 years. North Sydney Shoremen v The Warringah Rats. The dirty rats got up, but a great back story to their win detailed below.

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What's with the chopper?

 

[Cossie]

Pannonhalma in western Hungary. Still a working monastery, although it's closed this weekend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonhalma

and by golly it's hot, 37 degrees c.



Traditional dancing from Romanian domiciled, ethnic Hungarians, all orphans a local told us.





Resident kitten at the pension we stayed at.



There is a wine festival/tasting on tonight to mark the end of summer in the town we are staying at, Gyor. Should be fun, looking forward to tasting some of the regions tokay.

 

[Rugby]

What's with the chopper?

It delivered the Shute Shield, we were hoping it would drop off some tins so we could avoid the beer queue, which I estimate was 300 people long at one point. I did see a number of former Wallabies in the queue at various times, club rugby - the great leveller

 

[RooFlyer]

My office a week ago.

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Hobart's answer to 'the Little Mermaid' What was Maq1 like?

Meanwhile, a bit up the coast:

 

[kermatu]

Another Auckland sunrise.

 

[Milboo]

Hobart's answer to 'the Little Mermaid' What was Maq1 like?

Meanwhile, a bit up the coast:

The hotel was fantastic! I will complete my trip report and do a review of it.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

My office today was on the other side of the harbour watching the Bears win at Henson Park.

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Former home of the Newtown Jets which would surely be the preferred AFF NRL team if they were still around.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Former home of the Newtown Jets which would surely be the preferred AFF NRL team if they were still around.

I could never understand how a founding club and premiership winning team could fold just 2 short years later!!

 

[drron]

The Bears were playing the jets though some of the older Newtown supporters still referred to them as the "bluebags".
This competition is basically the reserve grade NRL comp for Sydney.The Bears are the feeder team for South Sydney.

 

[drron]

A few of you should recognise tonight's view from the office-

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[Bindibuys]

A few of you should recognise tonight's view from the office-

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Hope you remember that NTL does not have a lounge.....

 

[drron]

You don't need a lounge every night.Just fascinating looking at all the changes.
We arrived in Maitland to live in 1975.In April we were educated on the delights of Newcastle-
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Sadly Bob Hudson died earlier this year.

 

[Cossie]

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Sadly Bob Hudson died earlier this year.

I didn't know that, sad news, I used to listen to him when 2JJ started. It wasn't meant to be received in Canberra, but I had a decent radio and a very good antenna so I could receive the signal during the day. Being on the AM band, reception was always good at night.

 

[rogerkambah]

I didn't know that, sad news, I used to listen to him when 2JJ started. It wasn't meant to be received in Canberra, but I had a decent radio and a very good antenna so I could receive the signal during the day. Being on the AM band, reception was always good at night.

Why was reception always better at night? When I lived in ADL in the '60s I used to listen to 2SM and 2UE from about 6pm.

 

[Cossie]

Why was reception always better at night? When I lived in ADL in the '60s I used to listen to 2SM and 2UE from about 6pm.

The radio waves reflect off the ionosphere at night and can keep bouncing a long way! During the day the radio waves just keep going up. In my younger days I used to listen to shortwave and am radio and keep logs, called DXing which is ham radio speak for distance. I wasn't a ham, you had to sit exams to do that, didn't like exams then and still don't.

When it was dawn on the east coast in Australia and evening on the west coast of the states, under certain circumstances you could receive am (medium wave) stations from there. I still have recording of stations in LA and Portland. You would send a DX report to the station stating when and what you heard and would often receive a QSL card in return.
Also there were fewer stations and quite a few used to close at midnight or a bit later. The US/Canada stations broadcast at 10khz steps and here 9khz steps, which meant you had some frequencies without competition from here.

I'd spend all night going and and down the dial, drove my parents nuts!

2SM, 3XY and 4IP were my favourite stations prior to JJ starting.

This link may help explain a bit. Why do you hear some radio stations better at night? | HowStuffWorks Billy's DIY Dream Shop: Why Radio Reception is better at night?

I'm a bit sad, driving around Europe I like listening to long wave stations, long wave travels a long way, but the quality of the signal isn't that good.

On another note it was a sad day when Radio Australia stopped broadcasting on short wave.

Sorry waffling again.

Office shot from a couple of days ago.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

called DXing which is ham radio speak for distance. I wasn't a ham, you had to sit exams to do that, didn't like exams then and still don't.

CQ, CQ, CQDX ... anyone listening on the skip, over!

 

[VPS]

Just walked out the front of my B&B and saw this - Eileen Donan castle - my landlady said they don't always light it up at night because they breach their sustainability quota - seeing as I have now dropped my HX90V and smashed the screen I think I'd like to get one that copes better with night shots (but I can still use it by looking through the view finder which occasionally doesn't want to go down. Scotland TR is coming Denali