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Car: BMW 316 Compact (E36/5)
Date of first registration: 6th March 1995.
Registration region: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Latest recorded mileage: 61,125 (MOT 9th November 2018).
Date taken: 19th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
What might look like an abstract artwork is actually a novel antenna, small enough for a minisatellite, to track global ship traffic from orbit.
Commercial vessels are mandated to transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals, which are used to track maritime traffic – the oceangoing equivalent of air traffic control. The system relies on VHF radio signals with a horizontal range of just 40 nautical miles (74 km), useful within coastal zones and on a ship-to-ship basis, but leaving open ocean traffic largely uncovered.
However, in 2010 ESA fitted an experimental antenna to Europe’s Columbus module of the International Space Station, demonstrating for the first time that AIS signals could also be detected from up in orbit, opening up the prospect of global ship tracking from space.
“Based on our testing, this new prototype designs offers a four-fold increase in ship detection performance,” explains ESA antenna specialist Nelson Fonseca, overseeing the project.
“The AIS detection system on Columbus employs a low-gain ‘whip’ antenna, receiving signals within a very broad beam, with corresponding potential for signal overlap and interference.
“This antenna design combines higher-gain with a more reduced footprint, allowing more of a focus on regions of highest interest, and can also discriminate between polarisations, increasing the likelihood of detection for any individual AIS signal within the antenna field of view.”
In addition, clever engineering has shrunk the overall antenna size to a size where up to five could be hosted on a single cubic-metre minisatellite.
“Despite its name, VHF is quite a low wavelength in space terms, implying a bulky antenna of about 1 m across and half-a-metre thick to operate ideally at that frequency,” Nelson adds.
“But the patterned square-shaped structure on the underlying face of our antenna changes the signal behaviour, enabling us to shrink the design to 50 cm width and 3 cm thickness – making it suitable for hosting on a smaller platform.”
The antenna was developed through ESA’s ARTES Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems – Advanced Technology programme with Italian companies CGS as prime contractor and MVG as subcontractor in charge of the electrical design.
“CGS and MVG are highly interested in moving forward with the optimisation and environmental qualification of this outstanding antenna element,” explains Andrea Di Cintio, managing the project at CGS. “The next step will be to identify a specific mission and then optimise the design and qualification accordingly.”
“Significant reduction of antenna dimensions and weight without compromising electrical performance was challenging,” adds Andrea Giacomini, lead antenna designer at MVG. “It required a radical change in the design and validation approach. We are proud to have been involved.”
Credit: ESA–G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
New constructions for the wall - Compact St Jude's Dungeness - Wood, nails, 13 years of gloss paint, lichen, stabilizer and varnish
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Year of manufacture: 1999.
Date of first registration in the UK: 20th May 1999.
Place of registration: Chelmsford.
Date of last MOT: 7th April 2021.
Mileage at last MOT: 100,621.
Last change of keeper: 9th August 2020
Date taken: 3rd June 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
A very basic Compact. Top spotting points if you see one of these now.
Plate comes back to a Piaggio T5 (a scooter?)
My first pass at the building was only three stories, then I added an additional three. If I had to fit the building in a more compact space or if looked out of place in a layout, I could go back to three.
This 1 3/8 inch figure is the DC Comics character The Flash as seen in the game HeroClix. The red and yellow streaks behind him are actually tissue paper.
I believe this is the first toy photo I've posted to Flickr that was lit by my camera's flash. I typically use lamps, flashlights, LEDs, etc.
This image is straight out of the camera: no tweaking, no color processing, no cropping, no nothing.
Submitted to the Flickr group 7 Days of Shooting.
The best words to describe HK's cityscape.
Recently fall in love with the skyscrapers and cityscape, I spent few weekends on wandering around Central to Wan Chai. Look up and look for sth fun!! :)
My prototypes for the 4 hood's i've designed so far.
The two for CV 21mm and CV 25mm are still going through testing at the moment, so aren't yet on sale.
The Foxtrot fighter is a modified GARC viper. She's equipped with 2 short-range ballistic guns and 4 low-frequency phase cannons for shield dampening. Though she's low on firepower, she makes up for it with sheer speed. All this coupled with the ability to compact into a small cargo bay makes her a bounty hunter's best friend.
This has got to be my absolute favorite out of all the fighters I have built for the 14x14x6 starfighter challenge because it's just so fun to convert, and it's pretty dang swooshable too.
... sieht man hier mein Lieblingsmotiv, aber dafür mit Storch 😉
Aufgenommen mit der Canon EOS 650 und dem Sigma 28-200 mm auf einem Fujicolor Press 800, abgelaufen ca. 2005.
Der smarte Micro-Crossover Ignis: Effizienz zum Verlieben.
Kraftstoffverbrauch Suzuki Ignis
1.2 DUALJET HYBRID COMFORT und COMFORT+
(61 kW | 83 PS | 5-Gang-Schaltgetriebe |
Hubraum 1.197 ccm |
Kraftstoffart Benzin): innerstädtisch (langsam) 4,9 l/100 km,
Stadtrand (mittel) 4,2 l/100 km,
Landstraße (schnell) 4,3 l/100 km,
Autobahn (sehr schnell) 5,9 l/100 km,
Kraftstoffverbrauch kombiniert 5,0 l/100 km;
CO₂-Emissionen kombiniert 112 g/km.
Beim Anfahren und Beschleunigen versorgt der ISG den Benzinmotor mit Energie aus der angeschlossenen Batterie.
So erhält der Antrieb im niedrigen und mittleren Drehzahlbereich ( 1.600 - 3.900 rpm ) die nötige Leistung (35Nm) sowie eine verbesserte Kraftstoffeffizienz (minus 11% Verbrauch)
Sinnvolle Assistenz-Systeme
***** NCAP TEST
Not-Stopp-Signal-Leuchten
Bei plötzlichem Bremsen bei einer Geschwindigkeit von über 55 km/h leuchten nicht nur die Bremslichter auf, sondern auch die Warnleuchten beginnen schnell zu blinken, um nachfolgende Fahrzeuge zu warnen.
Notbremssystem mit Kollisionswarner*
Dual-Camera: Front
Zwei Kameras erkennen wie das menschliche Auge vorausfahrende Fahrzeuge, Fussgänger und Fahrspuren. Mithilfe der von den Kameras erfassten Informationen trägt das System dazu bei, durch Warnungen und automatisches Bremsen Kollisionen zu vermeiden.
* nur beim Spitzen-Modell
Compact Top (CH), Comfort Plus (Germany)
Sondermodelle Schweiz:
Ausstattungslinie
Suzuki-Lederkollektion
Gestalten Sie das Interieur nach Ihren Wünschen. Wählen Sie aus 14 verschiedenen Konfigurationen die für Sie passende aus – sei es klassisch unifarben, ein elegantes 2-farbenes Modell, oder die absolute Sportlichkeit in Form einer perforierten Sitzvariante. Die hochwertigen Materialien werten jeden Innenraum auf und verleihen Ihrem Suzuki noch mehr Emotionen, Charakter und Einzigartigkeit.
oder
Piz Sulai® Top
mit exklusiven Dekorelementen und einem attraktiven Zusatzpaket unter anderem mit kostenlosen Winter-Kompletträder.
mit Deluxe-Fussmatten
Hybrid 4x41.2 Hybrid
5-Gang Schaltgetriebe (mit Start-Stopp-Automatik)
5 Türen
83 PS
Leistung
61 kW
CHF 23'990.-
5.0 L / 100 km
Verbrauch
Mild-Hybrid System
Klein, leicht, effizient: Das Suzuki Mild-Hybrid System unterstützt den Motor in fast jeder Fahrsituation. Dadurch werden der Treibstoffverbrauch und der CO2-Ausstoß deutlich reduziert – auch ohne größere Investitionen und ohne jede Einschränkung der Alltagsmobilität.
Autobahn (sehr schnell)
5,7 l/100 km
Spitzengeschwindigkeit
170 km/h
112 g / km
CO2-Emissionen
25 g / km
CO2-Emissionen aus der Treibstoff- und/oder der Strombereitstellung
** 925 kg (850 kg leer)
** Leergewicht:
Inkludiert laut DIN 70200 bzw.
EG 92/21: Einen zu 90% gefüllten Tank, 68 kg für den Fahrer und 7 kg Gepäck (und es ist physikalisch streng genommen eigentlich die
"Leermasse").
A
Energieeffizienz-Kategorie
wassergekühlter Vierzylinder-Benzinmotor, 16 Ventile, 2 obenliegende Nockenwellen, Multipoint-Einspritzung
Sondermodellserie Piz Sulai®
www.vonrotz.ch/suzuki-piz-sulai/
ATTRAKTIVES PIZ SULAI® PAKET:
Vier Aluminium-Winterräder mit Premium-Markenreifen,
sportliches Designpaket, Einstiegsleisten,
Lenkradapplikationen, Schlüsselanhänger und eine praktische Kofferraummatte — alles im exklusiven PIZ SULAI® Look.
Limitierte Sonderserie, nur solange Vorrat.
Individuell Konfiguriert:
Comfort Plus
Dual Color
Seitenleisten
20.960,24 EUR
ohne Winterset Alu-Reifen und Felgen
ohne Chromleiste
ohne 5 Jahre Garantie
also etwa
23.000 EUR 2023 / März
Ohne Händler-Rabatt
From where I sit at this moment, Orkney seems so remote. It's easy to forget that it sits just off John o' Groats and was a bit of Scotland nibbled away and submerged at the end of the Last Glacial Period. Prior to that, the lowered sea levels left Doggerland high and dry — a convenient stepping stone for humans to repopulate Britain from the rest of Europe. Yes, I've been to the very north of the archipelago, to North Ronaldsay. Today I'm away to South Ronaldsay — ironically juxtaposed at opposite ends from its northern namesake. This won't take me to Orkney's most southerly isle, Stroma, which to be honest has less water between it and Scotland that it has between itself and the rest of Orkney.
Here's a reminder of how compact these islands are. This is the northern tip of Glimps Holm looking back across Lamb Holm to Mainland. By now I've crossed two of the causeways constructed as navigation barriers in WWII. There are what appears to be military installations, there on the cliffs of Lamb Holm. In the middleground lie relics of the block ships sunk here early in WWI. I think this was the SS Numidian, an almost 5000 ton steel hulled steamer scuttled here on 30 December 1914. She was sunk in the company of SS Aorangi, SS Thames and SS Minieh with, I think, Numidian in the shallow water near this spot. I could be wrong. If you need a better answer there's a kind of trainspotters' guide to the wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Orkney is so user-friendly. It's a small place, compact, packed to the gunwales with history; so much that with sea level rise its, Plimsoll line is in peril of disappearing beneath the waves. Getting about is quick and easy; all that and it has a village named Twatt.
If there’s one company in Australia with heaps of dino compactors, that company will be Suez, or SITA as I wish they were still known. Maybe in the past the company had more dino work on a national scale, but the high majority is now subject to their Sydney operations, with most of their bulk bin trucks indeed dino roll-offs. I’m sure the company has a good couple hundred open top containers, compactor containers and integrated units in Sydney, a lot of which appear to be young or freshened up. However, a few years ago I came across one of their older pieces of equipment outside their Wetherill Park transfer station, just sitting on the road unattended while its transporter was somewhere else. I love seeing a compactor just sitting on the road out from a dock, especially at night in the Sydney CBD haha It’s not often you would find a compactor of this capacity being used for garbage, so I think it’s safe to say this is a dry waste container or more likely one for paper and cardboard. You can tell this one is an oldie, with very faded paint and signage, plenty of scratches and a decent amount of rust. You can see the front of the container has been punched inwards... a result of the many times this steel box has been pushed into its resting position by the bail hook and frame. I reckon the “No Parking Day Or Night” signs should feature an additional “Offending Vehicles Will Be Towed” - not hard to do with the truck!
Taken on the Severn estuary about 10/11 years ago - not brilliant quality - I took it with a Canon G10 compact camera.
showing the collection of treasures inside. it seems i can't resist the rhinestone rondelles whenever i find them.
I was given a box of old compact digital cameras to see if I could resuscitate any of them. This one is awaiting a battery and further testing. Kodak made a ba-jillion types of early digital cameras. They tried everything to satisfy a fickle marketplace. What they DID succeed in doing (at least for this guy) was to make wonderfully colorful cameras. We could use more of that these days. Lots more. IMHO.
I normally don’t fall in love with AF zoom compacts, but I did with this little Konica Lexio 70 W! It is incredibly small and (to my eyes) a very handsome camera. I can’t call it a plastic wonder as it is made out of metal. It feels like an expensive camera, the Yashica T4 feels positively 3rd rate compared to the solid and chic Konica.
Specs wise, it manages to pack a 28-70 zoom with a very respectable aperture of 3.4 at the 28 mm setting. This is a bit Pentax Espio 928, but in a body of an Espio Mini. The large LCD is backlit in indigo blue, very nice touch. The camera has all the usual modes including a backlight compensation of 1.5 EV. There is no dedicated button to cancel flash, but there is a curious feature. If you select to cancel the flash and turn the camera off, next time you turn it on, just press the mode button once and the camera reverts to your previous setting, very cool!
This is the very first time with an AF zoom compact camera that I can’t complain about the viewfinder. For the first time I have a compact zoom camera with a big viewfinder, in fact so big that I can compose with my eye at 15/20 mm from it, remarkable. Konica has profited from this big viewfinder and incorporated not LEDs but icons at the bottom of the frame like macro, AF confirmation, flash and infinity focus. Also, the viewfinder is very bright and has a dioptric correction.
I suppose there must be a catch, but I have failed to find it just by playing with the camera. Possibly the week point of the camera is in the lens. I have to try it and confirm my suspicion, if the lens performs decently, then this Konica Lexio 70 W will be the first zoom P&S camera that I will use with pleasure.