Terrain | Program to plot the terrain between two mainland UK radio sites |
TV Aerials | Choosing and Siting your TV aerial |
Belling-Lee | How to wire a (UK/European) TV aerial plug |
cable | How to recognize CT100/WF100 cable and why it is better for DTT |
Field Strength | Calculation line of sight maximum signal levels given TX eirp, frequency, distance |
What's Wrong with Set-Top Aerials |
Measurement of exactly how much a set-top aerial sucks compared to a basic rooftop aerial. |
Beware the Booster | using booster amps right |
Mo' Betta | and using them wrong... |
Tinkerer's Curse | is that improvement really an improvement? How long must you wait to be sure? |
Poor Man's DTT test set | Some PC adapters give you the BER measurement you need to line up right. |
Audio noise estimation | Noise estimation of a mic and recorder combination |
P48 to MD howto | Connecting P48 phantom powered mics to a minidisc |
MD LH Mic attenuator | Using a stereo MD with a mono mike you can use the second channel to record an attenuated version of the main signal. So if you overrecord the main signal you can use the attenuated channel which is not overrecorded unless you've gone way over the top. |
Battery Box for electret mics | Get a better loud sound overload performance and lower distortion using a battery box |
Using Piezo contact mics | These guys have a bad rap for tinny sound. Here's how to avoid that by using them right. |