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18-07-2004
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: 22-12-2003 Location: Brighton
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.... just got back from my 2-week annual vacation in Cornwall, and just wanted to mention that I went on the above tour (£15 for family of four) and would like to recommend it to any interested forum members. The actual amount of information about current operating parameters was, to be honest, rubbish, but you can look this up yourself if you're interested. The drive-by tour around the monster dishes (largest is 'Merlin' at around 32M dia if I remember correctly...) was very cool, and they have a great interactive area that kept me and my kids fully occupied for a couple of hours! They also have free broadband internet access for the day, which I found very usefull for catching up with news and email while I was away... .... and NO, I'm not on commission! Check it out here :- http://wVVw.goonhilly.bt.com/ | ||
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18-07-2004
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| Hi BG, Went to Cornwall a few weeks ago, I looked at the brochure for goonhilly, maybe I'll give it a look next year. How was the weather? as apart from driving rain, hailstones, and gale force winds, we did at least have two nice sunny days. | ||
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19-07-2004
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| Super Moderator Join Date: 22-12-2003 Location: Brighton
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My System: Dreambox 7000, Skystar2 | LOL, the first two days were sunny, so I went fishing. Wife not impressed then, when the rest of the week was pants and the tent was nearly blown away! Oh well, the kids can go to the beach next year.... | ||
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19-07-2004
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| Dazed and Confused Mod  Join Date: 28-06-2003 Location: Wirral, NW England
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My wife and I went down to Cornwall for a long weekend at the beginning of May. We went to Goonhilly as well and, as a self-confessed technology anorak, I enjoyed it very much. We also visited the Eden project and, for a change of pace, the Lizard. We ran out of time and so didn't get to Land's End, and I didn't discover how close we were to the site of Marconi's first radio transmission until we were back home. Anyway, here are some piccies we took. PaulR errrm, no pictures. I'll try uploading later | ||
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20-07-2004
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| Dazed and Confused Mod Join Date: 28-06-2003 Location: Wirral, NW England
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My System: Various digiboxes, broken Nokia 9800S, numerous analogue boxes. My lovely little lappy, HP Omnibook 6100 | Okay, had to resize them and only had avatar resizer to hand so I apologise for their size! PaulR | ||
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20-07-2004
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| Super Moderator Join Date: 22-12-2003 Location: Brighton
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Don't let me stop you patenting one though! Sounds a bit like my mate. He bought a newspaper factory. It blew away in the night. @PaulR - good to know I didn't dream it all... I do tend to have wet-dreams over large antenna... dishes, ham radio side-band directional beams, throbbing vertical full-wave tower mounted STOP STOP STOP!!! | |||
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20-07-2004
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| Dazed and Confused Mod Join Date: 28-06-2003 Location: Wirral, NW England
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My System: Various digiboxes, broken Nokia 9800S, numerous analogue boxes. My lovely little lappy, HP Omnibook 6100 | Whip youself into a froth with these then... PaulR And I've got more - sad git eh? | ||
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