Aircraft scatter on short wave

In part 1, we described how to make your own antenna to receive ‘meteor echoes’ as they’re captured by the UK Meteor Beacon based at Sherwood Observatory in Nottinghamshire, England. In this part, we’

RACHAEL SPROT is a Yachtmaster Examiner with an ...

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Small boat angler Tim Macpherson looks at how modern fish finders and chartplotters are changing the way we find fish, navigate and manage our boats

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Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop