A long overdue update…
Well it’s been quite a while since I last did a blog on here!
A few things have happened since then, most notably that the summer holidays are nearly 2 months old (well for me, at least!) and there’s 69 days left until the start of Semester I of Year 2 – can you tell that I’ve been counting the days?!
I haven’t been very active on HF or VHF of late, I don’t know why though as I have been known to say “I’m bored” a tad too often. I finally got HRD installed onto the laptop and it makes a pleasant change from one of the very early v3.4 builds I used until fairly recently on a desktop and got a USB to dual RS232 9 pin serial converter so I can plug in the ZLP interface and have CAT control for the FT-857 on the go at the same time 
I’ve also been footering with MS Train Simulator with the Irish Enterprise Route pack and designing a very simplistic NI route, in no way related to the MakingTracks Irish Enterprise Belfast-Dublin route, for my own amusement, the only difficulty is trying to lay the track graphically as close to the actual coordinates of the Larne, Londonderry/Derry, Bangor, Knockmore-Antrim, and Newry lines.
And in future I must remember to update here and my YouTube vLogs more often as I have yet to publish my 2nd vLog after publishing the first in January past, whoops!
University Update
Well, I'm now into the 2nd teaching week of the Autumn Semester and thankfully so far there have been no major problems - all the rooms have been sussed out and have already got coursework to do 
The joys of the student life............. So far, everyone seems nice, students and lecturers alike, some more so than others.
At leas there's only 10 full weeks left of Semester 