Archive for March, 2006
Funny day, though I’m certainly not laughing. Actually got the TVI filter working today, seems the first design I applied would’ve worked but the antenna amp had a broken track on the supply rail to the first stage and therefore, wasn’t amplifying! Quite frustrating as all the effort I put in yesterday was pointless, but this fault explains the lot, so now I can merrily transmit at full power on 145Mhz with not a zilch of interference on the TV downstairs 😉 Job Done!
Erm thats about it, had a couple of zany ideas with Chain about a fun business venture and a bit of pratting around with a DVC looks immenent… Felt a bit down in the evening, jus paced around like a div in a trance. More fun tomorrow me expects!
March 23rd, 2006
Had a letter today from Servowarm asking me if I was still up for starting work for them, but I still haven’t heard from another company that I think I’d prefer to work for…? I spoke to the area manager of Servowarm Monday and explained I had a problem with my voicemail and hadn’t received any of the 5 messages that had been left previous. Thing is I don’t really want to do anything plumbing related, I just want a large sum of money, basically for doing whatever I want. Still I will go with the flow for a bit longer and make my decision when the time is right.
Today I extensively tested alot of filtering modifications to the TV antenna pre-amp to try to avoid the interference I’m causing to the television and actually got it to work, one problem though is that the analogue signal became somewhat attenuated…Acheived very little to erradicate the insertion losses cause by the mods and gave up after about 5 hours. Chain came round and we fitted the aerial mount to his van and after walking around a major Industrial Estate looking very suspicious delivering leaflets, drove up to Butts Brow aprox. 350 feet above Eastbourne to flick around on the radio. Heard one or two stations on HF, though we decided that maybe there was a grounding problem preventing the antenna system from operating correctly. That’s about my lot for today, you sound a bit boring I here you say? I say, never judge a man before walking a mile in his shoes! Today I was quite contented, and my shoes stink a bit so I wouldn’t recommend borrowing them.
March 22nd, 2006
The thing is this: I have often wondered about the reasons for my existance on this planet… And obviously have come up with no answers! Otherwise I would be locked up in some theatrical way of living that seems to suit the people I have the pleasure of being associated with along the way. My unfortunate circumstance places me in a position where I’m not really sure what I should be. I am free spirited, take things as they come and materialism to me is a myth. Life is an act that I see portraited by many people with varying ideas and influences, but the the thing is, who is the director?
Other things today well…Got the necessary components to complete my theoretical filter (thanks Chain). Didn’t really produce the goods, more analysing and research into the complicated mathematics of inductance and filtering made my head spin for a while after mastering bugger all…I went down the pub! 4 pints later and not really worrying about the complications that had before hand had a major impact on my frontal lobes…I feel somehow more at ease about the subject. I can’t remember!
Good day anyway, many cups of tea, and a few beers to boot!… 🙂
March 22nd, 2006
The fact is I’m just about hacked off with the way things seem to be. There’s the age old saying, “Life’s what you make it!” Not untrue, but it sort of does your head in a tad when all oppurtunities of actually making something seem to get missed, and then you get stuck in a rutt where it becomes impossible to actually do anything. So today I sat at home doing sod all!!!
Played around with the banner..as you will see. Knuckled down with some inductance theory to figure out how to wind these coils for my TVI filter (for those who dont get it, I operate on 144-146Mhz and basically wipe out the digibox downstairs, seems the wideband amp front end jus saturates everytime I key. A TVI filter will rectify this) Quite pleased to have the physical data now on paper, jus need to get hold of a handful of capacitors. Chain maybe able to help there, otherwise it’ll be a trip down to SI Electronics…(if he has any). Took JingTong 70cms Handie to bits to accertain the reason for crap audio, seems my assumption was right, that the electret mic didnt have a dedicated hole in the case (???) Left it in pieces for now, want to check audio filtering on the mic pre-amp and also try to eliminate a rediculous tone that belts out everytime you power the damn thing up! Tomorrow now as knackered…
So blog entry number 2…WooHoo!!!!
March 20th, 2006
Well, let’s face it, I need it, probably born one of the unluckiest I know… Having said that I am lucky in some respects let’s hope I can focus more in future and maybe get something done! All in all this is more of a piddling around entry as I’ve only just set it up and dont really know what I am doing…Nothing new there then!
Well thanks for some advice from the mighty Chain, I now can put pics in! Seems the insert image tag doesn’t insert an image, (? so whats it doing there ?) you need plugins and all that stuff wobbling around all over the place, new directories here and there… All sounds very good but i woulda prefered the insert image button to’ve worked in the 1st place, but hey, I’ve only just begun. Gonna play some more in a bit with the gallery plugin…maybe put some interesting pics on here one day, pictures I think tend to break the text up and make it easier to read…Or maybe I’m illiterate and, no I dont go straight to Hagar the Horrible everytime I pick up the Sun Newspaper! That’s after page 3…
Just playing with the gallery plugin here…
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March 19th, 2006
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