Aerial Day

Andrew stayed overnight - one reason was that he had brought up some coax cable to help complete the installation of an external aerial for the radio - we have long had an internal one that did not work very well at all and depended on where we were sitting as to whether it generated a good enough signal!

Mike had experimented a couple of days earlier with a car aerial he had bought a few months ago (our last attempt at using it was unsuccessful but we did not have a means of mounting it upright at the time) This time, Mike tried it mounted on a biscuit tin which was strapped to the roof and seemed to give much better results.

So, today Andrew led the charge to thread a cable through the various spaces between the radio and the front of the boat where we mounted the aerial on the roof overhang in front of the cabin. After connecting it up it still seemed worth the effort!

By now it was lunch time after which Andrew made tracks for home. We had an uneventful afternoon, broken only by a trip to Tesco for a few supplies.