Offline? not yet…

Off to Reigate today for 8am, Oxted, Crawley, East Grinstead, Burgess Hill and finally Brighton… Dodgey boiler today, worked on a Baxi Solo, it had a bent bracket on it wich ultimately meant that the flue didn’t line up properly, and never could have. Bit scarey really to think this had been chugging away merrily for two years! Still, this is what I am paid for, putting right everybody elses cock-ups so it seems. Met a nice old lady who reminded me of my Nan, had the faded Welsh accent with London overtones, quite spritely for 87, insisted I had a cup of tea and force fed me biscuits.
No highlights today I’m afraid. My Daughter let me down, she was supposed to stay with me tonight but made some lame excuse about something or other, I switched off at that point. Spoke some more about antennas with Chain, we are gonna end up with an aerial with almighty gain and untouchable performance with the research we have put in between us, if only we understood more than 5% of it! Really we need to experiment with different materials, Chain came up with a new co-axial design for the matching part of the antenna which looks a bit better than the present 300 ohm feeder cable we are currently using, maybe using low loss RG213 which is substantially thicker than what we have used for the loading, will also help improve the performance.

Popped in said Hi to My Sis and borrowed a film, Crash, which seemd kinda intense and I was a bit tired to get my head round it, another watch during waking hours should tie up the loose ends of what looks like a good film…

One more thing, had a call from ISP today, can mean only one thing, they haven’t been able to get money from poxy Bank, so I may well get booted off in the very near future. I would say I will write each entry from now as if it was my last, but that would be really quite sad! If there forms a gap at least the reason is now clear.

1 comment April 6th, 2006