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

Softrocks and SDR, getting, making, setting up, software, also the  Si570, a programmable oscillator providing a reasonable substitute for a crystal oscillator, or even VFO! This is used in Softrocks and other projects.

Propagation Research SpecLab Recordings to Investigate Sunrise/sunset propagation enhancement. "Greyline" Index Page.  Continuing May 2011...and on  Latest recordings. Includes Excel charts of reception and a list of propagation recordings made over the last few years.

http://g4zfq.alotspace.com/5MHzBcon/RAL=Weekly.htm , monitoring techniques and equipment, real time internet updates, soundcards, computer time keeping. Some links may not be live, but give an idea of what I have been doing. 

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

NEW SITE MAY July 2011 The Isle of Wight Radio Society    Paul 2E0CCR is 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 is at Haylands Farm. 

Archive:-  www.qsl.net/g3sky The Isle of Wight Radio Society  This is the old G3SKY web site. It holds lots of old records, newsletters and information including exactly how to find us!

FT847 Audio interface for data.

Timed switching operations via the LPT, parallel port. I could not find anything to act as a simple programmed timer so did this...November 2011 a simpler way that works with XP, not sure about later versions of Windows.

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.

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

 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.

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