News, Updates and Other Minutiae
November 2024 Phillipe F6ETI has done some serious testing on the Noise Canceller and shown it works up to 72MHz and is usable with some loss at 145MHz. Links to his website with photo's, video's and description of the testing on the Noise Canceller page.
September 2023 Long time between drinks, but not much happening on the tech front at the moment. Added another couple of rants to the rant page.
January 2023 Updated the AD9833 VFO code to use a 12F1840.
December 2022 Added rant about todays useless (internet) search engines.
November 2022 NEW Project An AD9833 Based Simple VFO. FT101ZD VFO project updated.
October 2022 A replacement internal DDS VFO for FT101Z/ZD rigs. Because the worlds postage system has gone totally bonkers and it is not possible to send a small pcb anywhere except at extreme cost, I am slowly making available the option to purchase pcb's from Pcbway. First up is the Simple DDS VFO 2017 project pcb. Others will be added over time. Noise Canceller kits available again- see Noise Canceller page.
Privacy Policy uploaded. GPDR and all that stuff In accordance with various bits of legislation around the world, either currently in force, about to come into force or proposed, you will now find that annoying "We use cookies" notice at the top of this website. The full Privacy Policy is available at the Privacy Policy link in the footer at the bottom of the page. (If you don't know what GPDR is, Google it. Real scary shit for ANYBODY with a web presence.)
Model Railway Layout - Webpage Under construction - Dec 2017
I don't know why, but quite a lot of Amateur Radio operators also have an interest in trains. Mine started in the UK when my mother used to take me (on a train) to Waterloo Station to watch the trains as a days outing back in the late 50's. Model trains for me started with the old Hornby 'O' gauge clockwork types through to the 3 rail Hornby Dublo (boy, do I wish I had kept all those) and later Triang equipment. I have other the last few years started collecting a bit of the 3 rail Hornby Dublo items I used to have. There were the usual not very sophisticated layouts as a youngster which slowly progressed into something better like that of the Porthleven trackplan below. Unfortunately, I never did get any pictures of it, even though I had a father who was a photographer.
Then the usual things got in the way, cars, girls, work, amateur radio (not necessarily in that order) and modelling took a back seat. All the model railway equipment I do have, is stored in boxes on top of the wardrobes and now I have the urge to do something with it again. The intention is to recreate something like Porthleven, but this time in OO9/HOn30 (I'm not a 'rivet counter' or a stickler for exactness, I much prefer to model something pleasing to my eye, with the odd memory of younger years back in the UK thrown in). Oh and one of the reasons for going to OO9 is that every time we moved house in the last few years, the house got smaller and smaller, so room is at a premium. This trackplan for Porthleven was published in the UK magazine Railway Modeller in July 1967. It is a fictitious extension of the railway into a part of Cornwall (UK) that didn't have railway access.
