J de B Pollard, M0JDB Windy Arbour Kenilworth, CV8 2BB Maidenhead Locator IO92FI ..alternatively 51.3 degrees North 1.7 degrees West please email me at: M0JDB

Link to John Pollard's Home Page

Current projects:    - The NORCAL keyer. Manual here and very nicely produced beginners construction guide here.

                                -  Frequency shifter (for fox-hunting)

Link of the month:

I have recently bought a SONY HD set.   So I often find myself talking about the benefits/ problems.  (One problem, generally unsuspected, is that the HD resolution is so good that the customary viewing distance from acroos the living room is too far.)

There seems to be a lot of confusion about  whether to buy a full HD set or an "HD ready one".  This website is helpful (note the comparison table and zoom into the images on this page).

For some personal details see under M0JDB at QRZ.COM

What got me back into amateur radio was buying - at auction - a quality Eddystone HF communications receiver (a 940).  For more info about these splendid sets (my Eddystone double conversion superhet 880 has a crstal filter which, once the set has warmed up, pulls a CW signal from a crowded band better than most modern 'black boxes').  See the  Eddystone User Group web site for whatever anyone could wish to know about these great British made (locally in Birmingham) sets. 

I also look after the web pages of the Mid Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society .

Check out the Xmas quiz

The "Jewel in the crown": an Eddystone 830.

Revised 6th October 2009

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