Friday, May 27, 2016

Moscow Food Truck Festival April 2016

Some Moscow food trucks shared from my other blogs.

Went there last year so when I heard of a food truck festival this year and at the same location not far from home, we went there also last Sunday 24.04.2016.


More food trucks. As you will see, many are MB-based trucks, also some Fords and some Danish style sausage wagons.


Something called Sweet Tokyo.



Hell's Pizza... saw them last year.


Friday, May 20, 2016

My Radios: 2005 Grundig Yacht Boy 80 - WR5408 PLL

Radios (with shortwave bands, the more the merrier) is another object of collecting for me and here is another radio from my collection the 2005 Grundig Yacht Boy 80 also known as the Grundig WR5408 PLL.


I have had it since 2006 and it is not just a collection piece -- far from it -- it is the one that is used the most for my occasional amateur radio activities like a bit of DXing - trying to hear some shortwave radio stations maybe getting QSLs from them.


So far almost all that I have recorded on my dedicated radio blog was received using this very radio set.

And it winters by itself at my country villa in minus 20 or 30 Centigrade temperatures too. But now it is basking in the sun.


 It has a nice soft real leather cover on magnetic fasteners which doubles up as something of a stand.


This review will be short on words (just my general impressions, nothing too technical) but long on pictures.



For some reason I like these time zones schematics. Many of my other radios also have them. See, for example, my header picture on this blog page. But in this case it's on the back so you rarely see it, especially since it is covered by the leather fold.


And a frequency range table.


One of the complaints is that it doesn't include an AC/DC unit which you have to buy separately (as it has no mains power) as I did.


SSB On/Off is there.


Another thing that it doesn't have is a signal strength meter. But everything else seems to be there.


Reception using its telescoping antenna is pretty good. You can find proof of it on this very blog.

I haven't used an external SW antenna yet (even though a reel antenna is included) but am planning to use it this summer.


Other than that, everything is pretty good and ergonomic, easy to use and operate and also durable.


Thursday, May 12, 2016

Vostok Ship Clock Setting Time and Winding

Setting the time on my Vostok Ship Cabin 5-ChM clock and winding it.


The clock itself is catalogued on my blog in this post - Vostok ship clock.



Sunday, May 1, 2016

Preparing for Euro 2016 Football Championship

The European Football (aka Soccer) Championship 2016 in France is upon us, not long to wait, and here's my preparation for same.


Got me two EURO 2016 T-shirts and a baseball cap.



Why a BASEball cap? Because there's no FOOTball cap, duh!



Official licensed product. No knock-offs for me (yet).


Money to burn (maybe even literally).


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