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Bob's Other Interests Page
This is a link to my own secret internet launch page
- its got loads more links than my official useful links page but many of the
links have not been checked for ages so some could redirect you to some of those
unsavoury sites that tend to take over domains whose original owners have lapsed
or not renewed.
Family
Elder son Poul has a web site with an on-line
portfolio of his architecture projects
Younger son Yan has no web site at the moment but this is where he works Foundation
Networks (supporting businesses with management and web-based tools and services
to maintain their ever more complex partner relationships)
Family History
Follow this link to Bob's On
line Family History Pages
Interests
- Windsurfing
- Definitely only a summer occupation, doing it for years
but never graduated to short boards and still trying to
water start! As a member of Oxford Sailing Club things
will hopefully improve as Farmoor Reservoir has more of a breeze than the
other local lakes. After an excellent windsurf activity holiday in Turkey
in spring 2005 that got me to RYA level 3 I changed my kit. I sold
the 210 litre BIC
Techno 293 board and rig that I had used since 2001 and am now using a 150
litre Mistral Explosion (the board I got on best with in Turkey).
- Here are my favourite windsurf weather links:
- WindGuru (a Czech site) gives
detailed predictions for the week ahead based on models of varying
precision, only the 100km grid is free and not delayed 12 hours however,
see this one
which should be about right for Farmoor Reservoir
- XC weather derives real time
wind data from airport weather data as well as giving predictions for the
next few days. Just roll your mouse over the arrows to see the data
for a particular airport.
- This
site provides excellent predictions of future wind conditions for the UK
and much of the rest of the world. The wind data is plotted on a
map with colour coded contours of wind strength.
- Check out the current thunderstorms in the UK plotted on a map of the UK
centred on Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. The detector has a range of 300miles in all directions and the plot page is refreshed every minute.
- This Thatcham
site provides historical thunderstorm data for Europe over the day
and an hourly map of the UK updated every hour.
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- Bell Ringing
- Regularly ring at Marcham All Saints Church but still loads of room for
improvement, I am still very much a beginner at this fascinating activity.
We have a web site
under development with some information about the bells.
- Languages
- German and Spanish particularly but also French and I used to be quite
competent at Lao too.
- Travel
- Particularly if I can practice the local language.
- Amateur Radio
- Licensed since 1970 as G4AEV (also one
year in Laos as XW8GN in 1974). Keen on
HF and CW but I have not been on the air much in the past few
years. The last thing I did was on the BPSK frequency (28.120) in an
attempt to make some use of the last sun-spot peak. You may come across me there still
running my old FT101E.
- Marcham
- Now they want to build on the lovely green field in the centre of
Marcham!! These pages are my attempt to stop
this awful prospect.
- Copyright Bob Anderson
- 29 November 2007