augustus 2017 archief

Bletchley Park

Visited Bletchley Park yesterday. This was the place where in the second world war the encrypted messages from the germans were decrypted. On the picture, an enigma machine used by the germans to encrypt messages. It’s fascinating to see how these machines worked. Also there’s a working “Turing Bombe” machine, used determine the position of …

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Warwick Avenue

I like to go to places known from songtexts. Today we added this one to the visited places. Pictured here is the entrance of the tube on Warwick Avenue. This is the entrance visible in the video of the song by Duffy. The rest of the day, we did what tourists do; visited the monument, …

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GB5RC Radio Caroline

Vanmiddag op 7141KHz contact gehad met de Ross Revenge. Dit is het schip vanwaar in de jaren 80 het piratenstation Radio Caroline z’n uitzendingen verzorgde, nadat de Mi Amigo in 1980 gezonken was. Ik was eigenlijk na één roepje al door de pile-up. Had gisteren net een draadje gespannen voor 40m dus gelijk maar even …

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