A winter evening with a wood fire, cooking, shortwave radio and cats | cosy cabin

First trip out in 2024. I spend the evening at a cosy cabin near Alton Towers. I set a HF radio up that was not behaving itself, I can only presume it was the feedline somehow, maybe the length of it?
I do get to try out a Shortwave active antenna I bought from eBay, cook some delicious food and 'entertain' two farm cats with a midi synth guitar.
Discovery TX-500 HF radio
HLA linear amp
M1ECC tripod antenna
MLA-30+Plus 100kHz-30MHz Ring Active Receive Antenna Low Noise Medium Short Wave
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00:00 Introduction
04:38 HF antenna set up
07:23 Discovery TX500
10:14 HF Antenna woes discussion
11:50 Shortwave antenna unpacking
14:05 Cosy fire and HF radio
18:58 Cooking time
23:43 Shortwave antenna test
26:49 Midi synth guitar