Am 03.01.2018 21:53, schrieb Paul Nicholson:
I'm supposed to be learning Russian but my Russian is even worse
than my German!
My Russian is also worse than my German! ;-)
Maybe Alex will invite us to his garden and we can learn some Russian!
But better wait until June!
We need an Alex in every country!
Well said :-)
I think that Luis is the Spanish Alex.
But i don't know a German Alex from the VLF guys...
> You are working?
Yes I have a busy full time job, responsible for factory
production software to build smart gas meters. 346 factory
workstations on three sites in three countries, plus their
main servers and databases. I also run a company which
maintains a historic reservoir (1836, 100k tons of water).
I used to do mountain rescue too but retired from call-outs
a few years ago. I could not be searching the moors until
midnight, then be working on a system in Poland at 04:00.
Now I just help out with training and I'm out on the hills
three or four times per week with that.
Interesting. I know there are a number of people asking themselves what
you are/were actually doing all the day ;-)
Luckily, my VLF hobby is almost fully automated :), maybe I
get to spend an hour a day on it. Just enough time to analyse
some signal and post results! Like this morning during a
coffee break, just time to launch the scripts to analyse W4DEX,
DK7FC, VO1NA overnight signals at all the sites. At weekends
I might get a little time to work on VLF software and very
occasionally make some hardware. But then, I might have to
be at the reservoir organising maintenance. How I wish each
day had a couple more hours, there is no time to sleep...
I expected that you spend at least 3 hours per day for VLF.
Here, i spend 6 hours per day for VLF, in average. This is quite much!
But i don't have a XYL, children, TV, garden...
Meanwhile, 41 years old here. And you?
73, Stefan
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Paul Nicholson
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