a contemptible miscellany of offcuts, broken ideas and random musings

if you find the content of these pages usefull, let me know. There is more stuff to come.

A recent view of the Melbourne CBD taken from the Menzies biulding at Monash
reminds me of a fleet of battleships on the horizon

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Hear Ye! Read  THE RIOT ACT  the original genuine riot act of His Most Excellent Majesty George I, Anno 1714 the riot act

A tribute to Australia Posts Dead Letter Office

This site is the best site for all millitary radio manuals

 
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 

military radio schematics and manual   rescanned and digitally edited for clarity

Wireless Set C42 / C45

The Saturn V Rocket Flight Manual...the real actual thing..awesome no ifs, no buts!

Bryant and May Safety Match  box labels from the sixties. Who remembers ? remember match box lables ? Here are matchbox labels I collected in the early sixties!

starring Godzilla-the-Gecko, our  finger tame reptile. 

                the wireless sender set C13 from the  Larkspur Series of millitary radio sets

this is a collection of favoured links of mine that maybe of interest to other radio hams

The Great Chelsea-Heights Refractor,  A triumph of random optical and cardboard engineering	The Wireless Set R5223  An Australian made poor man's Larkspur.	The A618 naval radio RECIEVE OUTFIT ACAS RAN PATTERN 16303
An actual working telescope made from random found optics	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!	images and my reverse engineering notes and schematics A618 page

The Porkman  portable music player	A cheap and effective PCI ATA IDE raid card for Linux users that require extra IDE channels	The AM broadcast band crystal set	Sir  John Monash
for the hard of hearing and the wallet-content challenged	Available at assorted Melbourne swap meets and PC shonky shops	revisited	His chair, at Monash  University
now why would anybody really want to do this ?	"Penguin Approved"	why does  the world need yet another crystal set design ?	more pics here!

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
StaticRam Testing Machine	dynamic-ram-testing-machine	article is still being written	Why did the computer industry not converge on superior ECL technology ?

reverse view,leds are all wirewrapped	designed to be left running inside target machine	extensive triggers and only 3 inches

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
the melt-formers grows up and gets a job	a new design for an analog , self powered, AC Ammeter it does not require an expensive moving iron instrument	classic Hewlett Packard technology	classic Tektronix technology

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

The General Radio Piggy.		bulging electrolytic capacitors...arrgh!
General Radio quality ,Rolls-Royce grade construction, interesting wideband design	An analog computer is the basis for this advanced RTTY demodulator	a rabid and livid rant about the latest method of enforcing planned obsolescence
my implementation of the ARRL transmatch	A noise bridge for the measurement of complex impedance in the HF range based on an  QST article from 1989	7 and 9 pin valve extenders for testing  in hard to get locations
L match ATU made from ancient found junk	drilling machine for thin metal flashing	An invincible army of Dalek drones irreversibly reduces all RF power to mere heat with this load of dummies
		blank, for now!
the shielded loop antenna	The slotted line apparatus,

Electronic nostalgia from the pages of Electronics Magazine

scanned advertisements that have "historic" or strictly personal significance

coming up RSN, the zero bit computer,   19inch rack expander

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