mark117h

4 hours ago, Kn4fty said:

Howdy folks! I was just curious how many amateur radio operators are on the forum. Also have any of you made Ham contact with the ISS? I'm currently working on a hand held dual band yagi antenna. I've finished the 2 meter half and need to finish the 440 side. My intention is to make ISS contact with only 5-8 watts. Can it be done? I have no idea. I just going to try to wing it since I'm the only Ham I know that has any desire to try. I've googled ways to do it, but some of those use equipment way out of my wallets ability. If anyone here has tried it using super simple equipment, I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks 

Rob

Hi Rob.

I am in no way a licenced radio operator or user of HAM Radio's, i do like the idea and sometime in the future i might even give it a go.

What i would like to say is, Would you be able to use a signal booster to help the signal get through or make it stronger, i don't know really, just wondering if this is even possible, either way i am going to keep an eye on this thread to see how you get on.

Good Luck Mate, hope you get to have a chat with them as that would be really cool.

Mark.

Hi Ian.

Very helpful and full of information regarding the human eye and how we view objects with color and movement. 

Going to go have a good read now about our eyes and our perception. 

A few years back when I was only about 12yrs old I had an accident where my fishing rod slapped back and hit my right eye,  On my dad taking me to the hospital, the surgeon who looked at my eye said I was very, very, lucky that it had just missed by a fraction of a millimetre my retina, here's the crazy thing, when it hit my eye I was blinded literally straight away, total blackness and very scary.

Anyway, on the way home my sight gradually began to come back in stages it was very strange, because as it gradually came back it was like all was pitch black on the edges of my vision but here's the strange thing, my vision in the center looked like I was seeing through the red cross ➕ logo but I could only see through the cross if you know what I mean, it's hard explaining it,

To this day the side effects of the accident have left me with a black dot on my right eye that sometimes has me swatting out like I'm trying to get a fly lol ? only for it to be this black dot/smudge on my eye. 

Thought the Post was informative and has opened up my mind to look and try to get some basic knowledge on the human eye, Thanks again Ian.

Cheers ? Mark. 

Hi Everyone,

I was lucky enough for our lass to say that she does not need her case no more, so eager to get to work on it i used the underlay from our carpet to make up the layers and cut a few lens holes, everything seems to sit nice and tightly and cannot move at all, still we are thinking of getting some of the square press foam, all in all though not a bad little project and for no £££'s either which is a bonus, i seen the post earlyier where someone mentions popping a few silica gel packs in too, might just do it, can only help with moisture.

Anyway here is my pictures

It does the job Very well

Cheers

Mark

Well here is my entry's for when we do this again,

1st i think i caught a very rare and on occasion event of capturing the sun in the night sky, "i know weird right" that the moon eclipsed it.

2nd I'm not sure but could "Possibly" be the sun about to be dwarfed by some crazy ship or even planet lol.

Cheers Mark

Hi Guys,

I have downloaded the Boinc software and currently have got it running, my P.C. Specs are a GTX 750 Ti, Intel i5 3570K CPU, And about 20GB RAM, not great but to be honest it has played anything I have thrown at it up to yet, look forwards to helping and contributing when and where I can, cheers mark.