Sadly not open this pm. Will see if I can get a look in the morning before we leave. About to eat at the Magna Carta pub before partaking of a ‘ghost’ walk this evening.
It is a faint shadow of what it once was. I think John is in his 90’s now and the place isn’t open very often. There are rumours about riches still in the deeper recesses though, where John only lets his closest friends go.
When I was a teenager the place was absolutely stuffed and doing a roaring trade in surplus kit, not least from the many WWII RAF and USAF bases being consolidated across Lincs. Aged 14 or so I bought a WS19 from there - Canadian built with the front panel labelled in Russian. I joined the local pirate net just above 6MHz - long-wire aerial down the garden, homebrew high-voltage power supply built in a biscuit tin (the original supply would have been run from a 12V vibrator/dynamo, bloody noisy, but not as noisy as the tank that the set was installed in). The radio equivalent of the jumpers-for-goalposts experience … 
When the internet started to be a thing John was asked if he was going to have a presence with an e-mail address. He famously replied that if people wanted to get in touch with him there was nothing wrong with (expletive deleted) Morse code ! The family friendly version of that story is reported here by James Blades aka Zyra, once a schoolfriend of my brother’s and sadly no longer with us (a pretty strange story too, starts here and ends with him dying a trans multi-millionaire in Panama).
I last saw John a few years ago at the NVCF. With his daughter’s help he was selling the last of his personal stuff. I bought the CT-160 he’d used for more than 40 years. I still have it.
VB
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Fabulous story Graeme 
Thanks for passing it on.
Always wanted to dive there. Serious deep dives there that need a lot of planning and know how.
Are they on air or technical diving?
Jealous.
Not full technical, enriched air I think.
Nitrox, isn’t that a 30m max depth? That will rule out the deeper dives but still fantastic options.
Still jealous.
Sam has been ‘deconstructing’ a knackered PC, whilst explaining what all the bits do.
Not sure if he found the two bananas in there or not…
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That’s the last you’ll see of your kitchen table for the next 5 years. Unless you get him a shed for his next birthday.
VB
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Progress!
More virtual bits than last time 
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disturbed night - wife of neighbour across the road passed away late last night. RIP Sylvie
Sorry to hear that Simon. Very distressing for everyone concerned.
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Indeed - not a nice experience.
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Up at the caravan. With the weather being so hot we decided to just do easy low level walks. This morning Jan said let’s do a mountain. Ok I said, just a small one though.
So here I am on top of Helvellyn.
When Jan says do you fancy doing something it is never actually a question.
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Fighting the hum !
My amp starting humming a few days ago. So, unplugged everything, reconnected one item at a time. Replaced amp. Twice (I am @ICHM and I have a problem).
Double checked everything with brewery system. Exchanged a couple of items.
Moved shit around. Cleaned contacts. Researched servicing. Swapped cables.
Finally found a knackered cable. Replaced.
See, cables DO make a difference.
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Even Peter Walker accepted that. He said if they weren’t long enough to reach you could really hear the difference.
VB
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To Hunmanby Gap for a nice walk along the vast beach to Filey and back.
A very fine slice of Bakewell from the Gap cafe.
View back towards Flamborough Head
Beautiful today.
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Cracking