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    Faraday Cube

    My wife and I live in a small flat with corrugated iron roof and aluminium framed windows which makes it a Faradays Cage. We like to listen to FM radio but having major problems with reception. There is no outside window in the room. TV aerial is unsatisfactory for radio and there are too many...
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    TV sound problems

    TV sound problems. Like most LED screens my picture is excellent but the sound leaves much to be desired. Like most mature people I have slight hearing problems. I need to add a hi fi system but being in a small pensioner flat there is no room around the TV. I therefore need to set one up a...
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    Wi fi for iPad

    From my den I can pick up free wi-fi from several sources with my laptop PC and a booster aerial. My smart phone can pick up the same but my iPad is less sensitive and can only pick up from a local source like my phone. Is there any way I can boost the aerial reception on it? Back in the days...
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    FM fading

    I live in a ground floor flat with a corrugated iron roof plus aluminium window and door frames. This is an ideal Faraday Cage and gives me problems with FM reception. I can't use the TV aerial because it is the wrong type so I have ended up with a wire home made contraption outside the nearest...
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    Small print

    Am just assembling a kit to control motor speeds. I had a lot of trouble reading the small printing on some semiconductors and identifying them with the list supplied. I solved it by photographing them with a macro lens on my mobile phone and then had a decent sized picture to work with. Old...
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    Strip Lighting

    I've just been trying my hand at installing strip lighting in my wife's glass display cabinet. The results are quite pleasing but I need to know a bit more about the product.......The self adhesive strip requires a 4 pin connector. One pin is marked 12v and the others red, green and black. What...
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    Slip up!

    I use a Behringer Chorus pedal to improve the sound of my guitar playing. Last week I had some clicks and other unwanted noises coming from my amp and decided to check over the connections on the lead. All the solderings seemed to be ok so the next thing was dry contacts. I lightly sprayed the...
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    Wi fi antenna

    I've been studying wi-fi antenna designs to try and improve my knowledge and at the same time build an efficient system. I can now pick up free Spark wi fi from a telephone kiosk which is not only approx 500metres away but not even strictly in line-of-site. I feel I can improve on this but need...
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    Morse buzzer

    Just gone back to my youth and have bought a morse key on trademe! I need a simple circuit for a morse buzzer, suggested power 9v. Can anyone help please? Deigh
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    Wi-fi

    I am using a Digitech wireless N high power booster to boost the internet wi-fi signal from a public source about 150metres away. It works fairly well but I have damaged it and would like to replace it with something stronger. Can anyone suggest a reasonably priced replacement that would work...
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    wi-fi

    Hi there, back on the forum after a short break. At the moment my home computer is away being repaired and i'm using a free-be at the local library. Here is my problem... When using a computer from home I take advantage of free w-fi from the local library which is about 300 metres from my flat...
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    Radio reception

    You would expect better of a man of my age but........Having lousy reception from VHF radio in our new flat. Decided that the cause was a wornout set. Found a nice new one at a well reduced price and put it on the credit card. Got home and found it was as bad as the previous one. Now the brain...
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    Footprint

    Here we go again. Finger movement and guitar playing has improved to the extent that I can start thinking seriously about messing with reverb again. Battery needs replacing in the amplifier and I am wondering if I could replace it with a bigger one. This would take more area which at the moment...
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    Wi-Fi

    I have moved into a pensioner flat in Waiuku (N.Z.) Just at the bottom of the hill is the public library which has free wi-fi. Every now and then I take the computer into there when I need to do some serious downloading. Very handy! but, I would like to use it from my flat and I am just slightly...
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    Reverb installation

    Been out of circulation for a while but am now back and looking to complete a project start a while back. Want to sweat a reverb tank into an amplifier. I have mounted the tank and tried it out by just plugging it into the guitar input but no significant response, although banging the unit with...
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    Wot is this?

    I live in a bus converted to a motorhome. I did the re-building fourteen years ago and am still doing modifications. Recently I swopped all the 12v internal lights for LED ones to save power. It worked excellently except that some of them interfered with the radio reception. I did lots of...
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    Tank reverb

    I have a 30 watt battery powered amplifier which is quite excellent. Only trouble is that when playing solo the output is a little too pure and I need a reverb. I have a plug in one which isn't the best so I decided to upgrade the circuit. I purchased a tank reverb P_RMOD which is an ideal...
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    timer

    I am involved in a project where a small and inexpensive timer is required. Can anyone help me with a circuit? Requirements are that it be battery powered and that anything placed on it would cause a light (LED) to switch on and stay on for a certain time. This time should be adjustable from...
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    phones

    A few months ago I had to purchase a new phone to use the new frequencies allocated by the government. I purchased a Samsung and had a lot of trouble getting used to it. It costs twice as much to run as my previous unit but that is a crafty move by the ISP people to make more money. Have now...
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    keyboard finger

    Have managed to built that spacebar operating finger I described some time ago. With a bit of luck here are the pix:D
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