I hit upon this article whilst looking for equipment boxes for the wireless router project. it’s not until you get to about page 3 that you start to think with this is either a wind up - or he’s a potential radio amateur!!
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39099&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
It’s no wonder they created legislation to protect those stupid enough to kill themselves with electrikery!
I have just bought some MC to N-type pigtails for the wireless project but now I’m trying to find equipment enclosures to house the router up the mast right next to the grid antenna. Can I find one? Nope. There’s a company paying good money to Google for first place in the rankings for “non metallic enclosure” but the site is so bad(!) and the pages are even named, “NewPage 1″ and stuff like that. The MD’s son’s summer project by the look of it. Need to get the pros in!
After much searching, I found a few sources:
Now that I have installed and got working the photo library, I’m thinking that maybe there’s better options on the market! phpWebGallery is hardly user configurable so I’m a bit stuck for pre-completed themes. I’m looking at CopperMine (see http://coppermine-gallery.net/) but I don’t know how to uninstall phpWebGallery. What a drama.
I got a really childish buzz out of doing the AFS yesterday. The adrenaline rush at the beginning was so real! My voice was faulterinig and I was shaking through the excitement, how mad is that? I remember looking at the shack clock 11 minutes after the start with 20 QSOs in the log wondering how I was going to cope for 4 hours? I bagged 103 in the first hour and 95 in the second hour, thinking that I was heading for a world record(!), but I only scored 39 in the third hour. Anyway, it was such good fun and to do 4 hours on the radio without a pee? I must have timed everything just right.
After dinner, I asked Emily if she’d like her own blog. She’s had www.emilymac.co.uk for over a year and although I built her a really pretty site, she coudn’t update it because it was a static site, with no software. Anyway, we’ve sorted one out for her and I spent most of last night getting it working.
2:30 in the morning I was still awake, listening to the occasional banging from the neighbours garden gate that wasn’t closed properly. Finally I had had enough, I got dressed and walked around three sides of a square to get to their house and would you believe it, their son opened the window just as I walked up the path! We both spooked each other. I told him my purpose and he grunted (he’s about 17, they grunt quite well).
Then I just lay awake for ages. It’s morning now, so I guess I slept.
Thanks to Lee for finding this link: http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/ which is about some keen guys putting together a “Circular Waveguide Antenna for 2.45 GHz / 802.11b / WiFi / WLAN” achieving a 2200 meter link with tin cans. There’s hope for us yet!
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