Notices by Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de), page 4

@nowplaying @c1t7 brings back memories - I was 9 when this was in the charts, even remember how both BBC and ITV always cut the video at around 2:09 on any TV shows aimed at children/youths (including TOTP).

Although Adam Ant of course escapes it is non compliant with UK broadcasting regulations to show *any* hanging scene when kids might be watching and might try to imitate it (not necessarily meaning self harm but as prank/bravado - lots of lads wanted to be Adam Ant back then!)

@LottieVixen @beadsland @saper @lizardsquid

Something I keep seeing on UK tech websites are claims that young people (boys and girls alike) *do* want to work in "tech" but now have visions of being in a US style startup or making money selling apps/ads, whereas the actual jobs and skillsets required here are in maintenance of more mundane stuff like telecoms and power networks or syadmins in smaller orgs (without which nothing else works!) or coding for companies making ERP databases..

@jk harmonics on the mains are a drawback of todays technology as well as the use of any motors etc. Any metal cased switchmode PSU (like your desktop PC) has filter circuit which supposedly dumps all the EMI to "earth" but on many networks this earth is combined in the neutral cable.at the distribution points, plus the internal wiring in buildings now radiates all this interference (increasingly an annoyance for radio monitoring, the signals even reach into VHF bands nowadays)

received some #weatherfaxes on #HF from #DWD #Germany - using #Tecsun #PL-880 and #fldigi with homebrew "random wire" (plastic covered washing line running around the perimeter of an upstairs room) and balun made from a ferrite core plugged into external antenna socket.

A crude setup and HF reception is variable here anyway (noise floor increases loads at night and I have to use 3855 KHz instead of 7880) but sometimes gives good results..

#radiomonitoring #shortwave