We had a brilliant night, we got a lecture By Séamus McCague EI8BP on Samuel Morse, teaching teenagers about electronics and some various other ideas and tasks. There was also a a gift from Drogheda in the form of fairy cakes which went down a treat for all who were lucky to get one, by the Mother of one of the members Elaine Nutley. Elaine is by now world famous for baking, and a suggestion for the next club meeting was made to have Elaine kid-knapped and pry the secret from her of how to make the bun’s.
Some time later we had a bit of a lecture from Pat EI2HX in ATV, the following pictures are from out experiment outside the club house. We were pointing the antenna seen here held by Thos EI2JD,
down the road to see if we could receive ATV. Thos used his thumb for the Coax, and His telepathy to receive the images. Unfortunately Thos was unable to make any contact with anybody on this attempt.
We understand that Thos might have being in TX mode, as when he pointed the Antenna Device in the direction of a vehicle it appeared to slow quiet rapidly.
Something else we were not aware of, we also understand that the antenna device may also have a magnetic Property as when the vehicle would be moving away from the antenna device the vehicle also appeared to be slowing down.
And there was another interesting fact about this experiment, that when cars which had been labelled with blue reflective stickers and blue lights mounted on the roof the antenna device appeared to slow the car down more rapidly than standard painted cars, again we are not sure so further testing is required. “strange”?
Thanks to all who took part in the antenna testing.
A video of the night.
