Friday 25 September 2015

Sunset

We have had a couple of nice Sunny days here though the cool breeze has taken the edge off the temperature. Tonight I took a couple of shots of the Sunset seen from my back garden:

This one taken with the auto setting on the Nikon:
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This one with the Sunrise / Sunset setting:
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The auto setting is the more natural of the two.
I do like the view in that direction, looking through the delicate branches of a Silver Birch.

I needed some way of stopping me from waffling on while I am talking to other amateur radio enthusiasts when I am using our local repeater. It has a three minute time out and it caught me out a couple of days ago while I was chatting to an amateur in New Zealand.
To that end I spent  yesterday having a think and today finally decided to use the small colour LCD screen I showed many moons ago. It is plugged in an Arduino Uno. The problem came when programming the Arduino. Last time was so long ago I had forgotten how. After a lot of Googling I found the information I needed to make it show a slowly pulsing large green circle which changes to yellow after about two minutes and then to a faster flashing red with about 30 seconds to go. There is a push button to start the thing when I start rabbiting on. Time will tell whether that is enough to curb the flow of hot air.

6 comments:

  1. My son is an enthusiastic radio ham abd spends many happy hours chatting to folk all over the world. Good hobby.

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    1. Weaver: It is and it's great to get back to it after a gap of seven years.

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  2. i like the auto setting better, too!

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    1. TWG: Yes, the filtered version spoils the natural subtle colours.

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  3. The sunrise/sunset setting got rid of the lovely lavender and purple in the clouds. I like the auto better, too.

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    1. Wilma: I often find the pocket type cameras have too many fancy features which spoil natural photography.

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