Radio
The receiver I'm currently using is quite old (date?) and was sold in kit form, which was built by a Mr John Collins
It was sold in kit form by a company called CirKit whom I believe are no longer around
It uses seperate Crystals for each frequency
Pictures of my Receiver...Click Thumbnails to enlarge (BIG Pictures!!!)
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| CirKit APT Receiver | Inside the case | Closeup of board |
I used this for a few years when I got it and it has been gathering dust after the house move...till now
Unfortunately since I last used it some of the old sats had been decomissioned and a new sat had been laumched
This meant I would have to get hold of a new Crystal to cover the new frequency, and I had no info as to the circuitry or what was required other than the freqency I wanted..
A plea for help was very quickly answrerd on the Yahoo Groups and in stepped Barry (G4IAT) with a very generous offer of not only the exact crystal I required, but details of how to get the readio to scan for the next sat and a whole load of other stuff, Thanks once again Barry, If your reading this you'll see that I'm now getting NOAA18!!!