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.