Dyn's World

It's really really boring... most of the time... honest!

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Location: Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

While I make my living out of being a software engineer, I'm trying to become a published author, writing books for teenagers.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Oops... forgot to write

Yes, yes, I know I haven't blogged for a few weeks. I'm going to have to sort out some regular time to write, because I'm finding that my usual slot is getting eaten up by other things. Ok, a quick summary of what I've been up to.

On the day of my last posting I did my second ofcom regulations presentation, which went smoothly. The next day All the radio station management got together to look at the new website to check it against the specification - just a few minor changes there. I then didn't do anything else with the radio station until Saturday, finding time to go teach more bellringing and present some more hospital radio on Wednesday and go to the radio club on Thursday.

Saturday was my next studio visit, armed with multimeter, headphones, and soldering iron, I decided to attack the long standing telephone channel problem. After 5 hours of chasing the fault around the board, I narrowed it down to the gain pot (having checked back from the input op amp, and worked backwards until the fault stopped manifesting itself. Took 5 hours to sort it out, but now things are now working well. Also noticed that the fader start remotes for the OTS channels no longer stop the player - a wire has come adrift on the PCB, and I was unable to re-attach it as the tracks are all lifting on the board, and it soldering connections to it is now seriously risky (I hope it doesn't fail while we're on air - it's new PCB time I think). Did a bit more compressor tweaking, but only to sort out some left-right drift.

Finally, I moved some kit around the rack to get the satellite receiver out of the way for the transmitter, which will sit on top. Then back into the training push, getting regular slots sorted out in the final run up to the RSL.

Other incidents of note over the last few weeks, include the office workstation, which is on the wireless network, dropping off the net after a system upgrade. Ended up having to fit an old NE2000 card to get it sorted out. I've managed to sort out the mic-live light connection to the mixer, having bodged it slightly when I first wired it up. I've attacked several wall mounted carpet tiles with some tacks and a hammer.

Last Friday, I was thinking about ways of getting log files copied off the station computers, bearing in mind that I've only got a 6GB disc in my laptop. I looked at USB hard discs, and saw this. So I decided to buy a 40GB disc, which arrived on Monday. I've got to say I'm most impressed with it too!

Right - will try not to leave it so long before I write again!

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