After passing my Foundation Licence only a few weeks ago, I wanted to work SSB on 2m and my roof mounted vertically polorised colinear X200 clearly wasn`t up to the job. I decided to try a homebrew 3 element Yagi, the dimensions and details were all provided by Neil, many thanks: 1. Reflector – 1040.6mm [...]
I had it running on the slides but thanks to JasonB and his suggestion over on madmodder, I`ve made a simple design to hold the leadscrew nut. It just so happened that I had a few pieces of chunky brass plate lying around from the frames of my clock build so I quickly neatened up [...]
More time spent on the router – I managed to secure the table to the base on the slides (it`ll have to come off soon to fit the lead nut). This is the lead screw – trapizodal with nuts ordered from MerchantDice on ebay. Excellent delivery – I ordered 10am and it came 11am the [...]
After seeing my mate Steve’s router out of the corner of my eye one visit back during the Christmas period I`ve been frequently going on cnczone to eye these machines up. As is usually the case with the internet, and that is part of its brilliance, there are countless ways to make these and every [...]