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News:   June 2008
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And the Lord spoke...but now with radio!
(Menorca - Monte Toro convent)

My blood ran cold when I switched my FT-990 on and found the 'lights on but no-one at home'! Luckily it is now working again after I accidently connected -12v to +5v outputs from the voltage regulator. The suspicion is that a semi-dry joint on the 5v regulator was made again by me overloading it!

I have declared the Sutton DSB HF transceiver finally complete! The latest modification has been an LED bargraph audio derived relative s-meter. Now I can think about starting a new construction project - probably the Single Sideband 'Minster' transceiver, a Walford Electronics design soon to be available in kit form.

Just before Christmas, I upgraded my AKD-2001 2m FM rig to 12.5kHz channel seperation. Garex have made an upgrade kit available which was very straight forward as most of the hard work is done by the replacement PIC processor which they provide. Since then I have added a CTCSS encoder - for details, click here

Early in the New Year I built a L-Match ATU  from mostly 'retro' and scrap components. The hardware side of the project was the most difficult - drilling and cutting all the metalwork. My son cut the front and back panels thankfully. See pic -->

Over the Christmas break I built the Cumbria Designs Frequency Counter kit. Its main purpose being to sniff whatever RF I'm transmitting! The counter is working well.

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