A bit of what we get up to on shortwave

This weekend, on amateur radio, there's a huge amount of activity in a worldwide competition where all the people taking part use Morse Code. In essence, we try to contact as many people in as many different countries over the weekend.

I thought those of you not familiar with amateur radio might be interested to hear what a bit of Morse Code, as we do it, sounds like! This little video shows Keith, GM4YXI a friend who lives near Aberdeen coming through on my set. You'll hear him make some contacts and then at the end of the video, I make a quick contact with him. Apologies for the dodgy camera work. It's hard to film with one hand and send morse with the other!

Preparation Day for the Village Woodland

Today we started work preparing the ground for the new woodland that we're planting as a community project here in Longworth.

I shot a little video to show the sort of tasks we were doing today. More to follow over the next weeks as we progress the project.

Prerequisites for Gervase's Fencing Masterclass

Scything practice

I did a little scything practice around the polytunnel today to keep the grass down a bit. Russell planted some chillies in the tunnel whilst Lawrence filmed us.

Bitzy features on Qik

Playing around with the Qik video streaming service the other evening, Bitzy was on hand to be filmed.

Qik allows you to stream video and audio from your mobile phone. Probably heavy on GPRS bandwidth, but absolutely fine if you've got WiFi available.

Bee Video

We had a quick check on the bees this morning. Here's a little video of the activity at the front of the hive after we'd done the inspection. Julie, resplendent in her bee suit is cleaning off a queen excluder behind the hive.

Downsizer Music

Here's a short video of some of the music from this weekend's Downsizer Skill Sharing Weekend held in Carmarthen.

Sound quality isn't great - it was recorded on a camera phone - but hopefully you'll enjoy it all the same.

Tim