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Gloucester Cathedral cloisters

2009-07-07T01:49:39Z

Palacio Blanco. Caracas. Venezuela. Av Urdaneta / Norte 8. At 8:30 A.M.. [1]

2009-07-07T01:03:13Z

Narrow boats on Shropshire canal at Lanwardine Shropshire

2009-07-07T00:34:58Z

Black sheep road sign in Wales

2009-05-26T16:02:19Z

This sign seems to have been used as a target. Do you recognise it? Where did you see it? Comment?

River Thames source near Cirencester in Gloucestershire

2009-05-07T17:00:55Z

Red mushrooms in Siccaridge wood, beside the old canal near Daneway

2009-04-02T10:43:22Z

Snow in France Lynch February 2009 at my home.

2009-02-15T01:04:04Z

That snow ball in front of the garage is my car.

Weather vane not a weather cock [1]

2009-01-11T23:55:07Z

Witch way doth the wind blow

A visit to Jephson gardens, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. 2008.

2008-12-16T00:42:29Z

Doctor Jephson's memorial, it contains a statue of him.

Doctore Hitchman s memorial fountain

Czechoslovak war memorial with a parachute fountain

The plaque behind the fountain.

The Czechoslovak war memorial and parachute fountain. After the invasion of their country by the Nazis, Czech soldiers fled their country to fight back from abroad, after the fall of France 2,200 Czechs and Slovaks joined the RAF while 7,000 men of the Czechoslovak army were based in the UK of which many were based at Morton Padbox near Leamington. Some flew in the battle of Britain. A specially selected group who's names appear on the adjacent plaque and round the rim of the parachute on the fountain, flew from near here and were parachuted into their occupied home land to try to assassinate the deputy head of the SS, General Reinhard Heydrich, who Hitler had made Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia which is now the Czech Republic. They suceeded on 27-5-1942. There is much more to this story and the terrible revenge taken on inocent Czech people, eg. (Lidice) For more information on the assassination see http://g3nqf.co.uk/the-czech-war-memorial-and-the-assassination-of-ss-obergruppenfuehrer-reinhard-heydrich

The Czech war memorial in Jephson Gardens Leamington Spa and the assassination of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich.

2008-12-12T01:49:47Z

The water dripping from the edges of the parachute on the top of the fountain are to represent the strings from the parachute. In the front is a sun dial. Growing on the left and right are patches of heather which were brought from Lidice which was a small town to the north east of Prague & which was notoriously obliterated along with its population in a Nazi reprisel for the assassination carried out by Czech parachutists who were based near Leamington. Their names are on the brass plaque behind the fountain and on the fountain. They were dropped in to occupied Czechoslovakia by the RAF during the early part of world war two. They were on a clandistine mission called "Operation Anthropoid" Their names appear round the fountain in this order. Jan Hruby, Adolf Capulka, Jaroslav Svarc, Josef Valcik, Josef Bulbik, Jan Kubis, Jozef Gabcik. They were based at Morton Padox refugee camp near Leamington. This photograph was taken by me in Jephson gardens in the summer of 2008.

The mission was to assasinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich whom Adolf Hitler had put in charge of Bohemia and Moravia, which now form the Czech Republic. On the 27th May 1942, two of the parachutists waited on a corner where the general's car was expected & would have to slow at the road junction. One fired at Heydrich but the gun jammed, so the other threw a gamon grenade in to the rear of the car. The blast blew parts of the seat into heydrich and he subsequentially died from septisemia. Below you can see the road junction & Heydrich's open car.

Bellow is the wreck of Heydrich's open staff car. A reward was offered for anyone who could tell the location of the assasins. One of the Czech parachutists was caught & tortured to reveal the location of the others. They were being hiden by a priest in a Russian orthodox church. The German soldiers entered the church and there was a gun fight. Kubis was killed in the main part of the church. Gabcech and three others were in the crypt where they were trapped and comitted suicide. The Germans had fed a fire hose in through the slit but there was a drain inside allowing the water to escape.

Below is a recent photograph of the monument outside the crypt where the Czech parachutists died

The The severn Czechoslovak parachutists of operation Anthropoid.

This is St. Karel Boromejsky Church in Prague in which they died. The priest was also put to death.

The same Russian Orthodox church but just beyond it you can see the Parachutist pub.

Inside the parachutist pub are many photographs & maps concerning the free Czech army during the occupation of their country by the Nazis in WW2.

Krcma u parasutistu = pub with parachutists.

I recomend the film "Operation Daybreak" made in 1976.

For more about Jephson gardens and the monument, see http://g3nqf.co.uk/a-visit-to-jephson-gardens-leamington-spa-warwickshire-england-2008

The last manual telephone exchange in the London telephone area. Enfield Middx. Early 1960s just before the change over to automatic exchange. [1]

2008-11-04T03:56:32Z

The main fuse board for the 65 position manual A board and the 11 position B board which connected calls between Enfield and Londons automatic exchanges.

Enfield Manual exchange power control board just before change over to a 4,000 type Strowger automatic exchange. Both photos were taken by me, G3NQF

How to count from 1 to 31 on one hand, and a childrens game based on the binary system. See game below picture. [2]

2008-10-28T18:27:44Z

Think of a number between 1 and 31 that you would like to represent on one hand. Hold up the fingers which when their numbers are added to each other = the number you thought of. The fastest way to find the correct fingers is to start with the finger representing the largest number that fits into your number, if it is a still larger number then hold up the next largest number finger that will fit and so on until you can represent the number with those fingers. For example, to represent a 21 choose the little finger and the middle finger and the thumb, = 16 + 4 + 1, = 21. So if you hold up all five fingers and add the numbers represented they add up to 31, a large number to count on one hand. Indeed if you extend this system to both hands you can count up to 1023 on them. Notice that each number has twice the value of the previouse one.

The game goes like this. Write down the numbers 1 to 26 and under the numbers write the alphabet, i.e. 1=A 2=B - 26=Z. Now its possible to send messages from one to the other by representing the letters with numbers with your fingers by some fingers held up and the others kept down. You send a number/letter at a time and the other person sums the finger values & then writes them down and translates them into letters until they have a complete word. For example to send the letter "I" hold up the thumb and the third finger to represent 1+8=9=letter "I". It helps if the other person has a picture of a hand with these numbers written at the finger tips, either drawn or you could print out two copies of this photograph of a hand. An adult should start the game with a child & if there are two children who can play it with each other they could be left to play it together. My daughter could do this when she was four years old, so its not very difficult to play. An 11 year old I showed this to soon started to recognise the letter represented by the fingers held up without bothering with the numbers. I found that many children enjoy playing this. Its good practice at addition, also an introduction to the idea of a code and an introduction to the binary system which is used everywhere in computers.

Raymonde Bronstein and I as children. See text below picture.

2008-08-06T21:29:48Z

Paris May 1951. My self Roger Fenton with acquaintance Raymonde Bronstein who had an incredible future as a ballet dancer, pop group star and film actress. Never underestimate what a child may grow up to be. This photograph posted 6-8-08.

Paris, Mai 1951. Mon auto Roger Fenton connaissance avec Raymonde Bronstein qui a un avenir incroyable comme un danseur de ballet, groupe de pop star et actrice du film. Ne sous-estimez jamais ce qu'un enfant grandir mai de l'être. Cette photographie Ajoutés 6-8-08.

Anse a La Mouche. Mahe island. Seychelles. Indian Ocean.

2008-07-24T20:39:19Z

Anse a La Mouche is a beautiful place backed by trees and mountains. You can walk out into the sea for hundreds of metres just up to your waist in warm water and walking on sand, hence the colour of the water. Seychelles has an oceanic climate because it is a thousand miles from a continent, its 4 degrees south of the equator. Typical temperature is 27C. There are over 90 islands, this is on the main one. Photograph taken October 1991.

The river Wye, & views from Symonds Yat rock. Herefordshire. [2]

2008-07-09T02:26:37Z

The cable ferry

Symonds Symonds Yat West, telphoto view from the rock.

The River Wye. view from Symonds Yat rock.

A high electricity Pylon

2008-07-07T00:50:50Z

WW2 pill box beside Stroud-water canal

2008-06-23T23:49:03Z

Wreck of barges at the centre of the river Severn estuary near Purton. Visible at low tide. [1]

2008-06-19T23:10:58Z

Red mushrooms. Common name Scarlet Elf Cup. Latin name might be Sarcoscyph Coccinea or Sarcoscypha Austriaca, they are extreemly similar. [2]

2008-06-02T01:19:59Z

Concave red fungus found growing in beech woods in November at 900 feet above sea level at Birdlip hill near Gloucester England. It looks similar to Orange peel fungus but for colour and enviroment and time of year. Kingdom = Fungi. Phyum=Ascomycota. Speces probably = Sarcoscypha Coccinea (Scop) Lambotte.

About Me

2008-05-06T07:07:31Z

Welcome to g3nqf.co.uk the Homepage and photoblog of UK Radio Amateur Roger Fenton, amateur radio call sign G3NQF.

I started this blog so that I could show some photographs of my ham radio station and the scenery near my home so that any radio amateur who I contact may if he wishes see some views of the area he had made contact with. It has grown to include places futher away and then places I have visited abroad and is still becoming more diverse. Having retired early from a long career in Telecommunications, I have spent much of my time enjoying photography, amateur radio and walking in the Gloucestershire countryside. Having also enjoyed travel most of my life I have visited Colombia and The Czech Republic in recent years.

This blog is mainly a collection of images I have shot in more recent years

In 1948, the UN adopted in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, [Article 19]:which reads,

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

How would you know if you had been indoctrinated or brainwashed? Question your beliefs and where they came from.

Snowdrops in woods near the pond at Cherrington Glos. Snowdrops are also known as Candlemass bells. Scientific name is Galanthus nivalis. [2]

2008-02-14T22:20:26Z

Trinidad carnival in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago.

2008-02-10T01:17:34Z

Stroud, road sign to cemetery. [3]

2008-02-06T04:54:12Z

The elderly persons sign is intended to caution drivers because there is special housing for elderly people about 100 metres along this road. Not to direct them to the cemetary.

Trinidad. Blanchisseuse Bridge over Marianne river near the north coast

2008-01-16T02:48:43Z

Tobago beaches on Christmas day in 1973

2008-01-03T03:28:36Z

Trinidad's coast, also the pitch lake. The twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is eight miles east of Venezeula, and 1,100 miles E.S.E. of Jamaica. Click on photo for a caribean map.

2007-10-21T15:31:15Z

The Railway Convalescent Home, Lavenham, Suffolk. Eight post cards [1]

2007-07-27T15:35:37Z

The Railway Convalescent Home Lavenham.
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The Wool Hall at Lavenham was due to be demolished in 1911, as it had been bought by Princes Louise, Duchess of Argyll, to be re-erected elsewhere.

She was persuaded to leave the Hall in Lavenham, and with her own money restored the building and in 1913 donated it, to Mrs Culver, wife of the Secretary of the Convalescent Homes, as a place for railway women.

The Convalescent Home closed in 1961/1962 and was later sold to Trust Houses in 1963 and is now a part of the Swan Hotel, Lavenham. WWW.THESWANATLAVENHAM.CO.UK/

The reason the convalescent home closed was that the Lavenham railway line ceased to operate for passengers in 1961/1962 and freight in 1965.

Below are the gardens and to the right the matron's sitting room.

Brettenham Suffolk Parish Church. 600 years old.

2007-07-11T17:55:04Z

http://www.brettenham.com/Church.html

Coppice Hill,Chalford,Gloucestershire.England. 6-7-07. Polish lorry driver trying to reverse from narrow hill. He failed, clutch broke. Polish cab and number plate, pulling German trailer with German number plate.See bellow.

2007-07-07T16:45:04Z

Prague castle wall hovels. Vensaslas Square at dusk, a long exposure.

2007-07-01T20:21:44Z

Prague. River Vlatava, and Prague Zizkov TV tower. Main line station. Panarama with Vlatava river. And the 1891 Petrin 60m iron tower from which the followig 4 photographs were taken.

2007-06-20T14:42:32Z

Fire in building at rear of Stroud college. 16:30, 3rd June-07

2007-06-05T08:08:35Z

Stratford Pk Stroud. Glos. Model railway in the park and wild Garlic in April [3]

2007-04-30T12:46:29Z

Venus & stars.The moon by Earth light. The moon & Venus setting together. Canon EOS 500+Tamron 300mm zoom+tripod, 7 second automatic exposure.

2007-04-28T17:36:38Z

Narrow boat Troy, On the Shropshire canal. (sold in March 08).

2007-04-14T13:31:52Z

above are forward and arft views of the Saloon and kitchen.

Above are forward and arft views of the rear cabin with cupboard containing bedding, its door lets down & forms the centre of a bed

Coal fired stove at the rear of the back cabin. Seperate views of top plate & ovon.

N.B. Troy. 52ft Traditional narrow boat. Gas free.

Engine room. Saloon. Back cabin. Shower room.

Details of N.B.Troy.
One of five built in this style.

It is fully inset panelled and has a front cratch cover.
Engine is John Deere, Beta Bug by Beta Marine, New in 2003.
Saloon contains two settees / integral beds. and a fold away table.
Galley kitchen contains Jotul solid fuel range. Cupboards & plenty of storage space.

A 12 Volt fridge and an automatic washing machine powered by an inverter.
Back cabin has a fold away double bed & a solid fuel Epping range.
Length of 52ft means it will fit locks on all canals.

The mooring pictured here is near Market Drayton Shropshire.

TETRA and mobile phone mast witch hunt (Spot the two phone masts)

2007-03-31T15:55:09Z

Tetra mast and mobile phone mast fears and television transmissions.
Compare this information about television broadcasts, with that for public mobile telephone services and TETRA systems.A mobile phone held to the ear transmits with a power of approximately 2 Watts & due mainly to proximity a large proportion of this power is absorbed by the head. Mobile phone masts transmitt with aproximately 30 to 100 Watts The masts aerials are designed to aim the signal parallel to the ground, i.e. horizontally above the local ground, there for the signal is not so strong just under the aerial as you might imagine. At some distance from the aerial, the signal weakens due to it having spread out and it reduces in strength four times each time it doubles its distance. its called Square law.

Frequencies for mobile phones are in bands at approximately 900 MHz and 1,800 MHz and at 3 GHz.

UK UHF TV frequencies are, for channel 21 (474MHz) which is just above Tetra systems frequencies.
Through to the frequency for - channel 68 (850MHz) which is just below the lowest mobile phones band.

Hence one might reasonably expect that if this band of radio frequency signals were a health hazard then roughly the same hazard exists across the band, Tetra-TV-Phones. However, consider the following.

The Mendip TV transmitter near Wells transmits analogue T.V, channels with a power of 500,000.Watts, And digital T.V. with 20,000 Watts, from a very high mast and again aimed horizontally, and all round.
So the lowest mobile phone band is proportionally just higher than the T.V. channel 68, which runs approximately 10,000 times as much power. How many people have ever worried about this as compared to mobile phone masts? Has the strength of the T.V. transmission ever worried you? Should it?
Tetra systems used by the police use a band of frequencies just lower than T.V. channel 21 & much less power. It does leave a slight chance that some near by T.V. reception may be affected due to proximity & being on a near frequency but this is only likely in a poor T.V. signal area where a booster amplifier is fitted to the T.V. aerial, because the booster may have poor out of T.V. band rejection and so amplify the Tetra signal until it over powers the T.V. set aerial input circuitry, blocking or distorting theT.V.signal.

Accusations that mobile phone masts are a health hazard reminds me of hunting witches, if they can't prove them selves innocent they are assumed to be guilty & any unfortunate & unexplained incident near by gets blamed on them.
Don't let anyone confuse you between the damage done by ionizing (radio active) radiation and non ionising radiation (radio waves) Terms such as "low level radiation" apply to ionizing radiation & don't have the same meaning as a high or low amount of the same thing, its a difference in qualities.Ionizing radiation concentrates high energy into an extremely small area, as does a bullet, radio waves share energy over a wide front as does a wave arriving on a beach.

See report http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2006/2089.html#

TETRA. Oficial information.

Radio spectrum for TETRA in Europe
The fast roll-out of TETRA in Europe partly resulted from the fact that a virgin frequency band was allocated for the emergency services based on agreement between the EU and NATO. As a result, European Public Safety and Security forces are using the radio frequency band 380-385//390-395 MHz for operation of their TETRA networks.

Within this emergency service TETRA spectrum allocation most of the radio frequencies are reserved for Trunked Mode Operation (TMO). The Direct Mode Operation (DMO) frequencies are typically allocated at the lower end of the radio frequency band (from 380 MHz upwards) and specific frequencies for Air-Ground-Air (AGA) operation are allocated at the upper end of the band (from 385//395 MHz downwards) to allow international compatibility.

For the European non-emergency services, TETRA frequencies are mainly allocated in the 410 to 430 MHz band with some countries allocating frequencies in the 450 to 470 MHz band. Countries that are not members of NATO can sometimes allocate radio frequencies in the 385-390//395-399.9 MHz band for non-public safety TETRA users.

4) The TETRA technology utilises a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) system that is also used in technologies such as GSM, D-AMPS, iDEN. In all of these technologies the mobile/handset produces RF energy in short bursts. Concern has been expressed in relation to the somewhat lower rate at which TETRA bursts are transmitted. The TETRA Association is aware of research into the effects of this type of transmission although, at this time, we are not aware of any government or standards agency that has concluded that existing exposure limits should be reduced. As already stated, the Association would welcome further research into this area.
The comments relating to the burst transmission characteristics of mobile equipment do not apply to base station equipment as these transmit a continuous radio frequency.

International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
View/download http://www.icnirp.de/Documents/Emfgdl.PDF

Ledbury Town. Herefordshire

2007-03-19T06:51:57Z

Hereford, Town hall, Museum, Library, Arch near the Cathedral.

2007-02-26T01:40:13Z

Hereford Cathedral. Front, Isle, ceiling & stained glass window. (see below)

2007-02-22T00:32:49Z

Houghton Mill. Saint Ives lagoon on January 1st, and Cambridge with snow.

2007-02-20T02:47:19Z

Ludlow Shropshire. The town square and market and Ye Old Bullring hotel & clock & streets.

2007-02-09T01:53:26Z

Ludlow Shropshire. River Teme and Ludlow castle. A cannon captured in Sevastopol, Crimea 1855. [1]

2007-01-22T03:13:59Z

Souvenir shop in Bogota' Colombia. [2]

2007-01-11T04:34:00Z

WW2, gun pill box, Saul Jcn. Sharpness canal, by Wycliffe College landing.

2007-01-09T03:01:42Z

Wootton Hill near Wootton under edge. Monument of trees, see sign bellow.

2007-01-09T02:01:41Z

A busy day on the Gloucester and Sharpness ship canal.

2007-01-06T03:43:28Z

Horses in the ford near Toadsmoor lake

2007-01-01T03:07:56Z

Lake in Chalford valley in autumn

2006-12-30T02:08:14Z

Seagulls beside the River Wye,in late afternoon sun.

2006-12-30T01:49:54Z