Electromagnetic Field 2026

We infer that the site wifi was one of the first things to start working in the setup process

We’re silver sponsors for this year’s Electromagentic Field. Held 16th–18th July in Eastnor Castle Deer Park, it’s a magical camping festival full of weird and wonderful things. We went in 2024 and saw a huge variety of amazing things including a very big Tesla Coil.

This year, in addition to our direct sponsorship of the festival, we’re providing various internet resources to help keep things running. We’re an upstream provider for the network and are already seeing traffic flowing. We also provide some offsite backup space.

Some of our staff are going to be at EMFCamp too and have some things to show. We think there’s something space-themed being created by @bencc@morehammer.uk, and GCHQ will be back with their interactive treasure hunt. We asked our staff for more clues about GCHQ.NET, but they all denied all knowledge about it. In fairness, that’s exactly what we’d expect the organisers to say.

One project we’re helping out is the copper telephone network. To interoperate with the world, we’ve donated a Virtual Private Server to run the SIP gateway to allow inbound and outbound calls. We hear rumours that it might be possible to get VDSL over copper phone if for some reason gigabit Ethernet in the middle of a field wasn’t good enough.

Expect posts of cool things we find on the Fediverse at @social.mythic-beasts.com/@beasts over the next few days.