Part 1 & 2 have been drafted for quite a while and I only got round to finishing them off. So if you haven’t seen them yet then view them here, Part 1, Part 2. What will probably happen is that this post will end up doing the same. So this is YEC 1382 ‘Unittie’…
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YEC 1382 ‘Unittie’ The Long Term Project, Part 2
Welcome to The Long Term Project, Part 2. The second in series of posts on the restoration of YEC 1382 ‘Unittie’. I hope you have already seen Part 1. In the previous post you will of read about the moving of the loco to a new home for restoration and the start of the evaluation…
YEC 1382 ‘Unittie’ The Long Term Project, Part 1
As some of you may know I have been involved in the restoration of YEC 1382, soon to be named ‘Unittie’. This project has been ongoing since 2014 and is now approaching the end. Rolling back To The Beginning Back in mid 2014 a good friend of mine told me that he’d been given the…
Land Rover Series: Chassis Repairs
It has been a while but I have finally got round to doing some of the chassis repairs that were desperately needed. This work couldnt of been done without the help of my mate Toby who transported the Landy to his dads garage (Westhouse Garage) where we used their ramp to do the work. The…
QO-100 RX & MiniTiouner Project UPDATE
As you will have hopefully seen I have so far published 2 posts in regards to my project of receiving QO-100 (Es’Hail 2). The First being the Building the MiniTiouner V2 from the BATC. The second being Receiving QO-100. These have both been part of my QO-100 RX & MiniTiouner Project. Since these posts I…
ADS-B Tracking Aircraft at Home (Part 1)
With an interest radio and also in aircraft I soon found out that it was possible to receive the ADS-B signals from the aircraft and to plot them on a map. Equipment Getting started in ADS-B reception is very simple. All you need is a simple RTL Dongle and an antenna. The RTL dongle can…
Receiving QO-100 (Es’Hail 2)
As you will of read in my previous post, Building the MiniTiouner V2. The reason behind building this was to enable me to receive QO-100 ‘s Wide Band transponder for DATV. After finishing the Build of the MiniTiouner. The following day I put together a rather messy, temporary, setup so I could connect the MiniTiouner…
Building the MiniTiouner V2
Yesterday I finally go round to building the MiniTiouner V2. I order the parts to build this a few weeks ago with the plan to experiment with the receiving of QO-100 (aka Es’Hail 2). Background / Reasons for Building By using the MiniTiouner this would allow me to: A) receive and decode the low symbol…
ISS SSTV 10th Feb 2019
A Days worth of recieving ISS SSTV transmissions. Signals were as good as the 9th for the final day of this round of ISS SSTV images.
ISS SSTV 9th Feb 2019
Friday 8th February was the start of another round of ISS SSTV transmissions. If you want to be able to receive these SSTV images from the ISS then tune to 145.800 +/- Doppler. For more help see my page on Working Amateur Satellites. After having trouble receiving the images on the Friday I was glad…