The continuing saga of Barf

 Well, those of you who do follow my occasional bloggings will possibly be confused by the sudden change of title and bio! This is to reflec...

 Playing around with my old Samsung Galaxy S7 today to finally put it into the BOINC farm. Tests with it and the old Ace J5 running via a US...

 Ordered the U10 MCP9801 temperature sensor IC for my mcHF transceiver. Arrived today, fair enough it was only coming from the next big town...

 Ive not done much updating on this project, but it is coming along. I now have the LPF toroids wound and installed, going by the specified ...

 After the success of Toms first little Chinese clock kit, this week we moved on to the second. This is the SH-E 879 kit. A somewhat bigger ...

 A few notes on this kit. I had hoped that it might be operable at 3V, but a test of this showed it doesnt. The LCD backlight works, and the...

 With not being at work today, only supervising my youngests home schooling, and needing something to relax me and take my mind off other wo...

 Feeling a little flush (this being before I was suddenly hit with an expensive DEFRA poultry housing order!) and really not liking doing my...

 Ive spent some time recently on just feeling my way around the physical construction of this radio. Its a very compact unit, so it makes se...

 With so many long term projects, Ive finally pushed myself to bring out the Merlin. My boys bought me this as a present a couple of years a...