Just a quick note to say I visited the National Hamfest in Newark along with Charlie, M0PZT yesterday. It was quite a long trip - about 2.5 hours to get up there, but good fun.
I'd gone with a small shopping list in mind - nothing big, but some bits and pieces that I would find useful. Coming back with 6 out of 7 items suggests it was quite successful.
My haul included a book on HF aerials, a microphone/earpiece for my handheld, a new mag-mount for my 2m/70cm aerial, 2 variable capacitors, two 3.5mm stereo plug > 3.5mm stereo plug cables and a small 4-port USB hub. The only thing I couldn't find (and didn't really expect to find) was a USB to Serial adaptor.
The variable capacitors are needed for my next project which I'll be starting once I'm happy with my soundcard interface which I've been building over the last couple of weeks. I intend to build a small magnetic loop aerial - it'll be the first aerial I've constructed and hopefully will be quite useful in my limited space QTH.
I haven't mentioned the soundcard interface on this blog yet (although it's come up once or twice on Identica/Twitter). Once it's finished I'll do a write up with some photographs. My main stumbling block at the moment is the USB to Serial Port adaptor - the laptop I'm using for radio doesn't have a built in serial port. Curses to progress!
I'd gone with a small shopping list in mind - nothing big, but some bits and pieces that I would find useful. Coming back with 6 out of 7 items suggests it was quite successful.
My haul included a book on HF aerials, a microphone/earpiece for my handheld, a new mag-mount for my 2m/70cm aerial, 2 variable capacitors, two 3.5mm stereo plug > 3.5mm stereo plug cables and a small 4-port USB hub. The only thing I couldn't find (and didn't really expect to find) was a USB to Serial adaptor.
The variable capacitors are needed for my next project which I'll be starting once I'm happy with my soundcard interface which I've been building over the last couple of weeks. I intend to build a small magnetic loop aerial - it'll be the first aerial I've constructed and hopefully will be quite useful in my limited space QTH.
I haven't mentioned the soundcard interface on this blog yet (although it's come up once or twice on Identica/Twitter). Once it's finished I'll do a write up with some photographs. My main stumbling block at the moment is the USB to Serial Port adaptor - the laptop I'm using for radio doesn't have a built in serial port. Curses to progress!