More Of the Same

March 20th, 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!!!!

Entry Filed under: Personal,Technical