I think thats why they shifted to Caversham. Antennas are in a higher bit of South Oxfordshire.

It is one of the highest bits of SE England.

Incidentally although the cat I meowed with as a somewhat bizzare “cross species male bonding exercise” decided to delegate mouse catching duties to me as the “alpha male” (with the predictable result the mice all got away), he would signal like a covert sniffer dog whenever he heard my radio scanner go off on the police frequencies.

I lived in the flight path to RAF Benson where TVP kept their heli XA97. it was and is also a main route to several civil and military aerodromes (another thing Auntie did was make sure anyones band II transmissions (BBC, IRN or even pirate) did not cut into the aviation band) Whenever this aircraft flew overhead, he would go and sit on the wheeled bin and look up at it. He never did this with any other aircraft and there were of course loads.

I did not openly train or encourage the cat to do this, but he seemed to pick up on my reactions to hearing the police traffic or the helicopter and that it was something to be aware of. Given some of the things I was involved in at the time this was a welcome extra pair of ears :laugh_at: