G4ZFQ - Amateur Radio, Propagation monitoring, Notes regarding associated items eg. G3SKY, Locator Maps, GPS Frequency Standards, Computer techniques.

Some pages I hope will be of use to someone - nothing fancy - just  information about my mainly radio related activities. Some links will go to Google Sites 100MB space!

  My Home at Cowes         Maybe I'll get round to updating this sometime! 

  My construction of a Cobwebb style compact 5 band antenna. March 2007

Si570 a programmable oscillator providing a reasonable substitute for a crystal oscillator, or even VFO! A few notes, links to information regarding the use and control of this device. Also it's use with a Softrock SDR, including pictures showing a home brew circuit board.

FT847 Audio interface for data.

 SpecLab Recordings to Investigate Sunrise/sunset propagation enhancement. "Greyline" Index Page.  July 2008 Latest recordings. Includes Excel charts of reception and a list of propagation recordings made over the last few years.

 Isle of Wight Locator/WAB maps, notes on use of GPS. 

The Isle of Wight Radio Society Look here for the latest on G3SKY  I am now looking after the Club site, the link to pages below are less likely to offer the latest, just archives from years back. Note the Club has now moved to Haylands Farm. 

 www.qsl.net/g3sky The Isle of Wight Radio Society  This is the old G3SKY web site, before  Zak made the current site. It holds lots of old records, newsletters and information including exactly how to find us!. Best viewed in the European morning, can be very slow when America is awake!

  UK 5 MHz Beacon Logging Using G3PLX software  Index page. Includes beacon info, monitoring techniques and equipment, real time internet updates, soundcards, computer time keeping.  June 2007 Some links may not be live, but give an idea of what I have been doing. 

Notes about "Chirpview" another monitoring program and GPS modules. Notes about "Chirpview", using it to make ionograms. Notes about GPS units for timing and frequency measurement.

 If anything on any of my pages interests you, take another look some time. I never finish anything in one go, putting things aside until I get another inspiration, so these pages can never be considered finished! Sorry if pages are missing, I've only got 10MB here.

03 April 2009 Please email me if you think anything is of interest. G4ZFQ. Links open in new window.

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