Since I acquired my TS-430 a few years ago the RX on the radio has never been at its best. So in this post I will detail my solution to my TS-430s Poor RX Problem. Background Some bands were fine while others were very poor. After a bit of investigation I found that this could…
Blog
Latest ATV Equipment
I have added two more pieces of ATV equipment to my collection. The latest ATV Equipment that I have added is a Solent Analogue ATV Transmitter and a MINIMOSD to add text overlays to my video. Accompanying the Solent transmitter is an 18W PA Which, when i finally get my rotator and 23cm beam up,…
YEC 1382 ‘Unittie’ The Long Term Project, Part 3
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’…
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…