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Windy Miller
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What are they?
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Looks like fly tipping to me ...Shhhh they're "modern art".....
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Love the chair
, might borrow that idea as I think it'd look good with a pot plant in there......
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Bingo. From this page, I thought I'd give it a go as a quick and dirty rig-up and if it works well, build a better one.
The handy thing about this is it's designed to give its best with the top element 6m from the ground, so no awkward high poles.
http://www.clubmarconi.it/deltaloop.html
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I have no real room even for something like that. But a simple longwire in the roof of the shed and i can get most of the hf amateur bands clear enough.
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I've got various verticals and runs of wire, all of which do their job reasonably well, but I need something with a bit more directional punch without going daft with a linear. From where I site this I'll have a decent shot to the east and west, a fairly good view the north, and a fairly dense treeline to the south, but I'm not too bothered about that. For local activity, the verticals work fine and for DX into Europe and the US (if the band ever opens up) this should work well.
As I just used what materials were to hand, it's a bit on the heavy side, but after a proving stage, I'll assemble a much lighter dual or triple element array.
This is all 11m stuff, btw.
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Hey Dave, whatever happened to Lowe radios that were made in Matlock UK ? I always fancied a hf-150, from when they came out, but i could not afford one back then. Might see if i can find one at a reasonable price now for giggles.
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Yeah, I fancied one back then, and I've seen the odd one on ebag from time to time. They vary a lot in price, and if one comes up at the right time (midweek end auction) they can go reasonably cheaply. Not for peanuts though.
Worthwhile doing a sold-for price search.
There you go... low of 80, more commonly 150-ish.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_...50&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684
Cool, now you've explained what it's for I can see it. One of my uncles (sadly no longer with us) was really into his amateur radio, at one point he had a load of ex-telephone exchange batteries powering his kit, he was always messing about with electronics and fixing stuff or modifying it. I was only a kid but I remember him buying ex-army stuff to modify and using a Commodore C64 to decode something or other that he was picking up.
Is a linear also known as a burner ? Could it interfere with the old analogue TV signal ? because I'm sure he had to be careful when he used it or he'd wipe out the entire valley's TV reception.
The other thing I remember was him getting cards from all over the place of stations he'd "worked", I thought it was so cool he was "talking" to people in Russia or the USSR as it was then known because the cold war was in full swing with Reagan calling it the evil empire etc
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Early finish.
Rapid set the bottom row tomorrow and grout.
Kind of floor I like. Only 3 cuts all straight and square.
13 days.
Fully tiled On suite finished bar patching artex and main bathroom ready for finishing monday.
Kitchen next
Rapid set the bottom row tomorrow and grout.
Kind of floor I like. Only 3 cuts all straight and square.
13 days.
Fully tiled On suite finished bar patching artex and main bathroom ready for finishing monday.
Kitchen next
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Had to nip up to Dundee today to get some more Argon and also a couple of more reels of wire. I have used 2 x 33l @300bar cylinders and 3 x 300mm dia reels of 5356 wire so far on this job 
Got the sliding door finished today and it is working well but I forgot to take some snaps of it.
Also got measured up for the handrails for the top of the shelter and got the top rails bent to shape and the intermediate stanchions cut on the plasma.
Got the sliding door finished today and it is working well but I forgot to take some snaps of it.
Also got measured up for the handrails for the top of the shelter and got the top rails bent to shape and the intermediate stanchions cut on the plasma.
Tonight I finished spraying and laquring a few projects old and new part of the rear bumper made a while ago resprayed again in a different colour scheme and a swing away spare wheel carrier I have been making for a while on and off
Went past a few weeks ago....building still there but its something else...My eldest lad was into radio.....we bought a scanner from there many years ago.........I recall telling my boss about this scanner and that it could pick up Police and mobile phones.....he was intrigued and asked me to bring it in to work so he could have a go....we were in his office and picked up a mobile phone that just happened to be one of our Reps slagging him off............a while later the phones changed to digital and killed it
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Laugh all you like... made a trophy for the school's award ceremony next week - this one is for best pupil in my practical metalwork class. I opted to leave, rather than grind off, the purty colours on the welds on the top as a nod of inclusion to the school's burgeoning LGBTQ+ community...
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