Welcome to the webpages of Dave Ackrill (G0DJA)


I live in the town of Bolsover, with my partner Kate and three cats.  There should be some pictures as soon as I get the hang of setting up these pages.

Kate now has her own webpage set up on Virgin, please go and take a look at it.  Like these pages, they will develop as time goes on.  The first problem was navigating the confusing instructions on the Virgin website!

Bolsover has a castle, several pubs and a few assorted shops.  It's on a hill overlooking the Derbyshire countryside, which is useful as I'm a keen Amateur Radio enthusiast.  I have some other pages, relating to Amateur Radio, on the ham-radio.ch servers

I'm trying to research the early UK radio enthusiasts.  This started when I was living in Crigglestone, near Wakefield, and I read a book called "The World at their Fingertips" by John Claricoates (G6CL).  In this book was an extract from the Return of applications for Licences under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, dated June13, 1906.  At the top of the list, which appears to be in alphabetical order, was H. H. T. Burbury of Crigglestone (Wakefield) and Barnsley and that started me wondering about who he was and where he experimented from.  I'm building up a list of the Early Radio Pioneers and am looking for more details about them.

Professionally, I am an energy efficiency engineer, carrying out surveys for The Carbon Trust and advising companies on how they an reduce their energy use, save costs and reduce the Carbon Dioxde emissions.  Again, links and pages will be added when I get round to it.

Please send me an email if you want more details of anything on my pages, or you have information that you think may be of interest.  My email address is dave at g0dja dot co dot uk.  Use @ for 'at', a full stop instead of the word 'dot' and don't leave any spaces, nor have a fullstop after the 'uk'.  :-)


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