• Re: Hobbies...

    From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Thu Jun 13 20:41:00 2019
    On 06-12-19 09:16, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I've thought about getting into HAM radio for a long time, I just
    haven't yet..

    I know a few people like that, and it's never too late. :)

    bed in 2008. Over the years, I've dabbled in photography and video editing, and done a bit of announcing/DJ on community radio. I also chased

    That's another thing I forgot to mention, in the past several years
    I've gotten into photography a bit. Sometimes I enjoy trying to get a nice photo.. I bought my first DSLR in 2015 and enjoy taking photos
    with it sometimes.

    I've never had the luxury of a DSLR, maybe one day. :)

    2007. Drone flying has caught my interest, as a tool for photography and video, but also the act of flying itself.

    Yeah, I think it would be interesting to get some photos with a drone.

    Yep, and video. I'll experiment with drones in the coming months. :)


    And of course, BBSing was a big hobby for me in the 1990s, and it's now back, as you can see by my activity on here over the last few years. ;)

    I was a little surprised how many BBSes there were online when I got
    back into BBSing in 2007. I thought BBSes were pretty much dead when I took mine down in 2000. And now I've been running my current BBS
    longer than I ran my original BBS in the 90s.. About twice as long
    now, actually. I ran my original BBS for 6 years (1994-2000), and I've been running my current BBS for 12 years.

    Yes, I was pleasently surprised when I finally hooked Syndhronet up a few years ago. It's good to be back! Our original BBS ran several years. I'm unsure of the exact date we closed. I know my point survived a bit longer, killed off only by the advent of cable broadband in late 2001.

    I've always heard it's healthy to have a good amount of physical activity.. I enjoy playing sports sometimes, but it's not something
    I've ever done regularly.

    Oh, it does wonders for me, both physically and mentally. I remember in my teens that I wanted to run track, but I lived in a small town, and the nearest competition was an hour away. Took me 30 years later to realise that dream. But now I'm enjoying the training, competition and the challenge of getting a bit more speed out of myself. :)


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Vk3jed on Thu Jun 13 09:22:44 2019
    Re: Re: Hobbies...
    By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Thu Jun 13 2019 08:41 pm

    That's another thing I forgot to mention, in the past several years
    I've gotten into photography a bit. Sometimes I enjoy trying to get
    a nice photo.. I bought my first DSLR in 2015 and enjoy taking
    photos
    with it sometimes.

    I've never had the luxury of a DSLR, maybe one day. :)

    They can be expensive.. Sometimes I've thought of buying another lens for getting different types of shots, and after seeing how expensive the lens is, I change my mind. :P The cameras themselves can be expensive too, especially full-frame DSLRs. It seems a bit crazy, but after reading up on the manufacturing process, I can understand.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to HusTler on Thu Jun 13 16:09:02 2019
    Re: Hobbies...
    By: HusTler to Vk3jed on Wed Jun 12 2019 10:29 am

    to watch tournaments on TV years ago.
    Back in the day I was volunteer fire fighter. We would competete against local departments in tournaments. Each department built their own "carts" to race with. Fun to watch. I was pretty good in Track in High School. Went undefeated in the 120 yard hurdles. It's good to see you're not letting "age" get in your way. You're not just getting older. You're getting better.


    i must have missed all that. all i did was manage chemical spills and put out small fires.
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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Fri Jun 14 10:00:00 2019
    On 06-13-19 09:22, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I've never had the luxury of a DSLR, maybe one day. :)

    They can be expensive.. Sometimes I've thought of buying another lens
    for getting different types of shots, and after seeing how expensive
    the lens is, I change my mind. :P The cameras themselves can be
    expensive too, especially full-frame DSLRs. It seems a bit crazy, but after reading up on the manufacturing process, I can understand.

    Yeah, and that's why they take awesome photos, even when using long telephoto lenses and other sophisticated lenses - the manufacturing quality is very high, and you get what you pay for.

    I'd also love to connect a DSLR to my telescope for some deep sky photography, but then would also need the tracking motor for the telescope, because any exposures longer than a few seconds will show the rotation of Earth.


    And moving back to sport for a second, here's a video of me in action on both track and fire brigade competition. It's a few years old, and my performances have improved since then. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhw3YnKJhM&t=306s

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