Today saw the re-imagining of the once iconic and globally respected British Rail (if you can filter out the memories of what it was actually like towards the end...) with the government offering a glimpse into the future by recycling something that looks for all the world like the misty-eyed past.
It reminded me of the dirty, smelly interiors of the slam-door rolling stock I used to ride to work, and I was reminded once more of those days just a few hours later, when I was presented with this version of the classic moquette seat fabric from back then.
I think we're going to need a bigger allocation for data-modes...
Forty metres at tea-time. It was madness. Everyone was just pouring on more and more power, trampling deliberately over the weakest signal on the band like animals. When you're having to fit 50 data exchanges into the space taken up by one SSB signal, something's not right.
Welcome to the future. I hope our railways have better luck, but I doubt it somehow.
Berni M0XYF
