The Orkney Wireless Museum will be on the air as GB2OWM during the Orkney Science Festival between 1 and 11 September. Probable operating times will be weekdays and Sundays between 2.30 and 4.30pm and on Saturdays from 10.00am to 12.30pm. The 2004 Festival will run from Wednesday 1st to Saturday 11th September. It will open in spectacular style with a concert by the visiting dancers and drummers from Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan, on the evening of Thursday 2nd. The relationship between traditional worldviews and modern science is one of the themes of this year's Festival, particularly appropriate in an island group with a rich heritage of ancient sites such as the Ring of Brodgar which have been shown to contain sophisticated astronomical alignments. Orkney's rich archaeological heritage, internationally-renowned, features each year in the Festival programme, with new insights and reports of excavations. The glories of the Neolithic, with the Ring of Brodgar and Maeshowe and Skara Brae, have long been regarded as the start of it all, but research in recent years is throwing up tantalising hints of an older Mesolithic hunter-gatherer culture. [Tnx MM0DFV] ===================================================== 73, Dave - VA3RJ =====================================================
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