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Andrew Plant G0MBL

@plantfamily.net
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Retired IT technician, radio amateur (mainly FT8 & other digi modes) and a late convert to cruising (ships, not the other kind!). I live in Ramsgate UK. Intensely introvert: hate sarcasm & 'banter'. I'm Socialist & Woke. Open Borders. Cis but support 🏳️‍⚧️

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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 20/10/2026
Succession of deep lows forecast to pass over the UK for the next few days. 50mph gusts forecast for tomorrow evening. And the @metoffice.gov.uk app says 'light winds" for the same period 😲??
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 16/10/2026
I've meant to visit Alexandra Palace for ages but never got round to it. Now I'm here!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 21/09/2026
A lot of drivers in #Pegwell #Ramsgate apparently unable to read 'Road Closed ' signs
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 07/09/2026
My first computer, and one of my first PCs!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 06/09/2026
Do you take us all for fools Kent Police? Since when did a 'spontaneous protest' involve hundreds of men wearing identical dark clothes and balaclavas? Hundreds of men arriving by train in obviously organised groups constitutes a 'spontaneous protest' - really🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 05/09/2026
Did you see the geyser as well?
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 04/09/2026
You must have been standing in almost the same spot as me, is it already over 3 weeks since I was there 😒
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 21/08/2026
At the #cne Canadian National Exhibition in #Toronto and met the floofiest floof I think I've ever seen ❤️
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 20/08/2026
Riding a big Canadian railroad train to downtown Toronto!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 18/08/2026
Set the alarm for silly o'clock to watch the sail in to NYC
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 17/08/2026
No no no no nooooo
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 12/08/2026
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 11/08/2026
In Isafjordur today, together with 4 other ships! I think a substantial percentage of the world's cruise ships are near Iceland for the eclipse tomorrow!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 10/08/2026
Always take some photos of #radio masts and ancillary stuff on holiday, the middle one has the mountains of Iceland in the background!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 09/08/2026
A bit chilly perhaps but I always love to watch the ocean drift past #QM2
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 08/08/2026
#QM2 moored in a very wet #Skjolden
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 07/08/2026
In #Olden #Norway #QM2
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 07/08/2026
Got up v early to watch the sail down the #fjord #Norway #QM2
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 06/08/2026
Today on QM2 the conditions are very different from yesterday. High winds, rain, cold...but I still love being at sea regardless. Mrs MBL however is suffering from mild seasickness 🤢
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 06/08/2026
#QM2
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 05/08/2026
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 04/08/2026
Sunset in the English Channel on #QM2
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 04/08/2026
Back on board the beautiful #QM2, always feels like coming home 💞
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 27/07/2026
I have posted this before but I love it and it bears reposting! #QM2 at dusk, East bound for Southampton in the middle of a flat calm Atlantic Ocean. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 27/07/2026
The Shard near London Bridge seeming to vent a mysterious gas into the night sky #weekDforDark
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 08/07/2026
Er...win his next match?
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 07/07/2026
Looks like a big opening on 6m to the US - but absolutely nothing in East Kent. Looks like stations in the west of England getting all the fun 😒#hamradio
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 28/06/2026
Found this in the Café Nero at the University of Kent in Canterbury #oldtech
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 18/06/2026
Two years ago we woke up one morning to see this on our stateroom TV - hope you don't have the same 😀🤞
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 09/06/2026
This one came to say hello at the allotment yesterday!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 04/06/2026
This has got to be the most ridiculously clumsy spam email I've ever seen. Is there really anyone in the whole world that would fall for this nonsense?
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 03/06/2026
Jet 2s advertising budget has been cut 🙂
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 31/05/2026
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 28/05/2026
I've just bought a fan - because it's b****y hot. One of the h&s warnings - do not place the unit in a hot... environment 🤔
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 23/05/2026
Wow, that was a suddden and totally unexpected increase in wind speed. 5 to 25 km/h in under an hour - looked like a front going through, but can't see that on the charts with this huge great high pressure over us. The antenna mast had been at full height all day and had to be lowered pdq! #hamradio
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 23/05/2026
Since 2nd May....
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 23/05/2026
Yes I tried to get a view inside the cockpit and there did seem to be the usual instruments and controls there
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 23/05/2026
Regardless of one's view of private education, it would be sad if this beautiful building and this view were lost to housing development #StLawrenceCollege #Ramsgate
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 23/05/2026
There are times when even Ramsgate can look beautiful!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 21/05/2026
Absolutely, regardless of the weather! I'll usually spend an hour or so sitting on a lounger on QM2's promende deck watching the ocean drift by, so relaxing. Usually do a lap or two before bed as well, helps me to sleep! Queen Victoria's promenade deck in contrast is not a very nice space.
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 20/05/2026
Refusing to look straight at the camera as usual!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 02/05/2026
The Cunard Queen Mary 2 ocean liner in port in Alesund, Norway, taken from the Akla viewpoint #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge
A photograph of the Cunard Queen Mary 2 Ocean Liner in port in Alesund, Norway.
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 24/04/2026
Well this caught my eye on 6m this morning. Doesn't look like the usual false decode and locator EL06 really is in Mexico, but it was a one off and there was no other evidence of transatalantic propogation #hamradio
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 22/04/2026
Ah, someone else with A&A! Same here, even with four of us in the house, one working from home!
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 01/04/2026
Somehow I don't think this was a valid decode on 2m FT8 from UK 🤣. Got a JT 'new country' alert and got excited for a moment! #hamradio
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 23/03/2026
Have you invented time travel @stagecoach.bsky.social - how can this service arrive before it departs 🤣
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 22/03/2026
Reminds me of Blue Peter back in the day 🤣
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 27/02/2026
Used to play guitar a little bit 50 years ago. Now I'm retired it will be interesting to see how I get on with this 🤞😃
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 18/02/2026
May sound weird, but I love walking by the Thames on a dark wet night. The reflections and lights are lovely
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Andrew Plant G0MBL @plantfamily.net · 18/02/2026
Always like this hotel near Tower Bridge with nice views...
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