Aberlady X-Craft
Derry Hamilton - 31/05/2015
A potter round Aberlady nature reserve, and some photos of X-Craft. ...
An Antenna Bracket
Derry Hamilton - 02/02/2015
I was looking for an antenna bracket that would fix to a camera tripod, and allow vertical antennas on 2m/70cm, and a pair of HF whips horizontally. No such thing appeared to exist, so I designed one. The easiest way appeared to be to use Schaeffer‘s Front Panel Designer. It...
Ben Chonzie
Derry Hamilton - 25/10/2014
Popped up Ben Chonzie while Tor was investigating Yarn. Visibility was poor, but good for navigation practice. ...
In Search of the Simplest Oscillator
Derry Hamilton - 10/02/2014
Studying chemistry, one of the lightbulb moments was the realisation that lab skills weren't about learning how to use techniques, but instead about learning how to avoid stuffing things up, and rescue things once they were stuffed up. As the saying goes: "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there's a...