Monday 25/04/2011

No radio this week but here is some more of us fixing radios in Banstead, Video by Chris 2E0CTH

See you in a couple of weeks.

Monday 18/04/2011

More fun at the Scout hut in Banstead.

Activities this week included Denis working on his fox hunting receivers. Mick and Denis made a bracket for a pump up mast. Neil and I spent some time testing old valve radios and did not blowing them up. Both radios need a fare bit of work to restore the back to showroom condition.

Some pictures below:

A nice old Decca Radio:

 

 

and a Hacker Mayflower II

Lots of Tea, Coffee and Biscuits consumed :-)

All in all, another good night out with the boys.

Good Friday for some: The guys out playing on Epsom Downs.

…and for those of you that missed it, here’s the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGHxd1SlZTc

Monday 11/04/2011

This Monday I spent some time playing with a couple of valve radios I was given a few years ago. One can be repaired and I am looking forward to renovating it.  The other was too badly decayed and has ended up not worth repairing.

Saturday the guys and I had a radio play day. Ten of us met in the car park on Epsom Downs. Various antennas were erected and a number of bands worked. Pictures below:

Monday 04/04/2001

Last week Alun and Steve did the 80 metres CW contest. Warren showed us a radio new to him. It was a 1935 Philips Radio and it worked. Warren will be renovating this over the next few weeks.

David showed us a Racal RA17 he has been working on and also had it working before he re-cases it.

Monday 28/03/2011

You never know what is going to turn up here at the play night. Colin (M0NLP) turned up with this piece of kit. Brand new still in its original box purchased just after World War II as surplus. It’s been packed away in a loft for over 65 years.

What is it?

 

An   RT-7/APN-1

Radar Altimeter, 420-460 MHz, Doppler frequency shift, dual scale meter 0-400 and 0-4000 feet, TO AN 16-30APN1-4, Output 0.1 W, 14 or 28 VDC, Major components

 
The RT-7/APN-1 is a Transmitter-receiver, part of the system.

 Neil (M0ZEY) had a FM receiver kit that was not working. We had a quick look but could not get it to work.

 We are always up to something each Monday.