The Sound of Who

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Dick mills
I attended the The Sutton And Cheam Radio Society monthly meeting tonight and had an enlightening talk by Dick Mills from the Radiophonic Workshop. He talked about early workshop practises and equipment, through to the later techniques and technology.

Dick Mills worked on special sounds for “The Goon Show” (Spike Milligan’s “Major Bloodnok’s Stomach”), “Quatermass and the Pit” & “Doctor Who” (Took over from Brian Hodgson in 1972) and more.

Other Links on BBC site for Dick Mills & Radiophonic Workshop.

FrankenMobiWatch

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From a Mad chat on Mobitopia about watches, we have come up with what we want in a decent watch that got the name the FrankenMobiWatch

? Analogue or Digital
? Solar or Kinetic
? Radio Controlled (From Rugby and or Frankfurt)
? That can switch times zones Automatically (possibly via GPS)
? Small form factor
? Deluxe Options MP3 & USB memory (so that the cheapskates don’t have to pay for it if they don’t want to! )

Icom OPC-478 Connector

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Info for this Connector was obtained from ICOM CI-V Hardware Page

Here are some images of the OPC478 connector someone is making for me.

Icom OPC-478 Interface.

The ICOM design for the OPC-478 interface is a simple transistor circuit used for cloning. The version by Chris VK3JEG http://uk.geocities.com/blakkekatte/hardware/opc-aus.jpg gives equivalents for the transistor and diode parts. That version is the one commonly found on the internet. However the one from ICOM Japan’s site http://uk.geocities.com/blakkekatte/hardware/opc478-japan.jpg has a few modifications. I have added the transistor and diode equivalences from VK3JEG’s copy of the earlier version of the interface. WA0SXV http://www.wa0sxv.us/ci-v.html has some reservations that this design might not properly implement the RS-232 protocol.
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