We had our first heavy frost this morning. It was cold, but it is now sunny. We are lucky to look out of the kitchen and lounge on to a windmill and village museum.
21 Nov 2025
View from the kitchen
We had our first heavy frost this morning. It was cold, but it is now sunny. We are lucky to look out of the kitchen and lounge on to a windmill and village museum.
Hope Cove, Devon, UK
My family can be traced continuously back to the mid 1500s in this Devon village. Most days I look at the webcam at the Cottage Hotel there to see the weather.
10m 2W FT8 (Friday)
My gear was turned on just before breakfast.
UPDATE 1520z: 249 stations have spotted me in 5 continents. Now QSYed to 6m FT8.
The nature of consciousness
We live in a world where of space and time where time seems to flow from the past into the future. What if time is an illusion and everything we have ever experienced is always there? We have a lot to learn!!
20 Nov 2025
6m 5W FT8 (Thursday)
UPDATE 1825z: 18 stations have spotted me. The furthest is ZS4TX/6 (8766km). See map.
10m 500mW WSPR (Thursday)
My beacon was turned on at about 1300z.
UPDATE 1646z: 8 stations spotting me with several in the USA.
London theatre trip yesterday
19 Nov 2025
London trip
No radio today
As were in London much of the day, I was not on the radio today, but hope to be tomorrow. Probably 6m 5W FT8 and 10m 500mW WSPR.
Kierkgaard quote about life
There is a famous quote by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard about life. It is pretty profound.
"Life can only be understood backwards. But must be lived forwards."
AI voice?
As many know, I had a stroke in 2013 that left me with a totally poor voice that many find hard to understand. Before my stroke I made quite a few YouTube videos, so I have quite a few samples of what I used to sound like.
My wife has suggested I use these to create an AI voice of me as I once sounded. I have never tried AI for this, but it sounds a good idea. The first stage will be to collect some audio samples from YouTube and then recreate my old voice using an AI tool.
If you know of suitable (preferably free) tools, please let me know as soon as possible.
18 Nov 2025
More from Times Radio
This video was on YouTube earlier. It includes a piece about the disappearance of Sergei Lavrov who is the Russia Foreign Minister who seems to have "dropped off the radar" in recent weeks. Apparently he is very bright and has been a real supporter of President Putin of Russia.
Search engine gripe
Have you noticed that when you search for something often the site at the top of the search (which many people click first) is NOT the main site you are looking for?
Unless you are very careful, you are linked to some other site. I noticed this recently when I tried to donate to a charity. The first site was nothing at all to do with the site I was after.
Today, I was looking for another site and the first link (presumably paid for) was nothing at all to do with the site I was after. Personally I find this morally wrong and sneaky.
AI and data centres
There is no doubt that AI consumes hugs amounts of power. We have some way to go to match the memory and processing power of the human brain. I am sure this will get better with time although we are a long way away at present.
So far I have been very impressed with Gemini AI that renders old black and white photos in colour in just seconds.
This creates a moral dilemma: we all want the benefits of AI without its power-hungry nature.
10m 2W FT8 (Tuesday)
UPDATE 1832z: So far, spotted by 354 stations. See map.
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