This, Just in from the newroom,
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a contemptible miscellany of offcuts, broken ideas and random musings
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 | Hear Ye! Read THE RIOT ACT the original genuine riot act of His Most Excellent Majesty George I, Anno 1714 |
 | How to SOLDER TO ALUMINIUM |
C13
LARKSPUR wireless sender/reciever
military radio schematics and
EMER manual
C11 LARKSPUR Transmitter/Sender
schematics and manual rescanned and digitally edited for clarity (ha!)
C45 and C42 LARKSPUR wireless sender/reciever
my military radio schematics and manual extracts rescanned and digitally edited for clarity
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Bryant and
May Safety Match box labels from the sixties. Who
remembers
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| The care and feeding of
the Australian
Southern Marbled Gecko | ||
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starring Godzilla-the-Gecko, our finger tame reptile. | ||
| The Ray 'O Death a high gain, reproducible antenna for 803.11b wireless networking |
| The
Great Chelsea-Heights Refractor,
A triumph of random optical and cardboard engineering | C13 | The
Wireless Set R5223 An Australian made poor man's Larkspur. |
The A618
naval radio |
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| An actual working telescope made from random found optics | the wireless sender set C13 from the Larkspur Series of millitary radio sets | write up, schematics and now the complete manual | this is not the same radio as the Murphy Radio 618CAS, many similarities, differant manufactures, differant mechanisms but some suspiciously similar circuitry. The Murphy Radio manuals are up on http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/ |
for the discerning
astronomer with no budget
| at least the fully sealed die
cast enclosure was Larkspur grade! |
| The Porkman portable music player for the hard of hearing and the wallet-content challenged | The AM broadcast band crystal set revisited | Sir John Monash His chair, at Monash University |
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| now why would anybody really want to do this ? | why does the world need yet another crystal set design ? | more pics here! |
| An all valve Loran B reciever. I can tell not much more about it, this picture taken at the shack of VK3ASE | ||
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| Loran B was a radio navigation system that was discontinued I think about 1980. This valve "computer" generated pips on an air radar set that "indicated" where you were. The circuit would appear to be a set of programmable delay lines which you turned until "something happened" or something was indicated on the radar display. You then read the dials and by referencing a chart you would know where you were. Thats all I know about it and thats probably just a guess. Those of you that listened to the Hams late at night on 160 meters during the late seventies would hear the rapid pulse like noise emanating from across the planet. These were loran B, a planet wide ship and aircraft hyperbolic navigation system. This apparutus is what decoded and displayed this data. | ||
| the web pages of
prominent Melbourne Radio Identity VK3ASE | ||
| Static Ram Chip testing machine using The Zero Bit Computer microsequencer |
A Dynamic Ram testing machine based on principles from the The Zero Bit Computer microsequencer |
The Zero Bit Computer a novel microsquencer design that
demonstrates a direct mapping from natural language to wired hardware |
A rant by me bemoaning the sad way that TTL overcame the inherently
superior ECL (emitter coupled logic) in the computer component industry ECL is simply better |
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| StaticRam Testing Machine | dynamic-ram-testing-machine | article is still being written | Why did the computer industry not converge on superior ECL technology ? |
| A simple and effective logic state analyser | ||
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| reverse view,leds are all wirewrapped | designed to be left running inside target machine | extensive triggers and only 3 inches |
| Wood working for the practical Australian amatuer. | |||
| tools, conditions, material availablility in Melbourne Australia | |||
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| over the top pc case mod | heirloom coffee table | various bookshelves | The China Cabinet |
| The
Welder O' Doom | Next Generation AC ammeter | The HP 5246L counter | The Model 453 Tektronix Oscilloscope |
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| the melt-formers grows up and gets a job | a new design for an analog , self powered, self calibrating mains AC Ammeter it does not require an expensive moving iron instrument or active electronics | classic Hewlett Packard technology | classic Tektronix technology |
| The LUX AETERNA a small quest for perpetual light | ||
| the truth finally revealed | Autism
Spectrum Disorder my notes and comments on my third child's affliction | |
| The artistic works of Master Tristan E Klimek | this is a collection of favoured links of mine that maybe of interest to other radio hams | |
| The
Saturn V
Rocket Flight Manual ...the real actual thing..awesome no ifs, no buts! |
This site is the best site for all millitary radio manuals | |
A tribute to Australia Posts Dead Letter Office A parcel sent to the "Overseer of the Universe" finds its destination | How hot can the sun's rays get ? Hot enough to make Boiling Lava ! |
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| a homemade wide range LF to VHF sweep generator using MECL | Now that you have learned how to cut glass, make a traditional glass kaleidoscope | A frequency counter based on the now unobtainable Intersil ICM7216 frequency counter chip |
uses Motorola MC1658 MECL111 vco and novel ramp generator | kaleidoscope | with original data sheet circa 1979 |
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| misc stuff | wide band RF milliwatt meter using an Analog Devices AD640 Logarithmic Amplifier | please bid our new arachnid overlord welcome! |
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Tue Oct 2 16:31:14 EST 2012 coming up RSN, the zero bit computer, led matrix array oscilloscope, the repair of flat screen monitors, 10Mhz WWV reciever
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