Welcome and thank you!

From Chris Bolton on the mailing list, 5 May 2026 11:58 UTC

Many thanks for signing up to the North Devon Technology Club, the response over the past 24 hours has been very encouraging and we now have 17 members!
If you haven't done so already please introduce yourself with a few words about your background and interests.
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Patrick Lidstone has kindly offered to create and host a club website which will help to drive engagement and interaction, thank you Patrick!

From Mark Wildig on the mailing list, 5 May 2026 12:17 UTC

Good Morning everyone,
ive always been interested in electronics buying equipment with my pocket money back in the day and taking it apart or blowing up the capacitors !
i was fortunate enough to do a 5 year apprenticeship with a TV rental company called Rediffusion was amazing fun and got me my C+G qualification.
Then i saw advertised a job at the BBC to staff up with studio engineers for the launch of Breakfast Time one of the first morning news channels , got the and did my 9 months training at BBC training center Wood Norton to become a studio engineer .
Got drink one night with a few friends and decided to start are own company called Smoke and Mirrors , had amazing fun and worked on lots of Film and TB special effects .
now retired but still love building projects, home automation , radio communications (G6BNB) and all the other cool stuff!

looking forward to what we could achieve in this group, give me a shout if i could help in any way , would be great to have a catch up with other over a beer sometime?

Mark Wildig

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