{"id":767,"date":"2009-09-19T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=767"},"modified":"2009-09-19T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T23:04:55","slug":"all-very-frustrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/all-very-frustrating\/","title":{"rendered":"All very frustrating"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took another look today and had a sit inside and I think if I don’t replace the thick padding, I’ll probably regret it later on. It’s very frustrating because I’d hoped to get a lot done this week-end (and the weather is going to be good too) but in the whole scheme of things, what’s another week, really?<\/p>\n

I did a quick search on the Web and found a company not far from me, near Maidstone, who sell various foam rubber components, including tubing. From their price list I’d need tube with internal diameter 27mm and 5mm wall thickness, which is less than half the thickness of the padding I’m currently using. It comes in black only in 1m lengths at \u00a310 a time (not cheap!) and I’ll need 3 lengths so I think that’s the way to go. I might even be able to pop down there on Monday if I can find the time, to pick the stuff up so then I won’t feel quite so bad as the time lost will be fairly minimal.<\/p>\n

As I couldn’t do much else, and quite frankly I didn’t feel like doing much to be honest, I decided I’d take a look at fitting my radio transceiver and interface. The transceiver is a brand new Vertex VXA-220 that I bought off Ebay from Hong Kong. It’s a superb piece of kit and will be much better than a crumby old semi-obsolete Icom. Been there, done that with Rosie’s \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n

The interface is a used Comunica which I bought with two headsets also off Ebay a couple of weeks ago. I know how to adapt it for my set up but I can’t do the job because a car lead for the Vertex that I bought off Ebay over a week ago, again from Hong Kong, still hasn’t arrived. I only need the angled plug off it (the whole lead only cost \u00a34.50 including postage) but without it it hasn’t been worth starting the job. See what I mean about frustrating?<\/p>\n

Anyway, the other day I cut the wide Velcro strips (yes, also off Ebay \ud83d\ude42 ) that I’ll be using to mount the kit on the panel so I thought I’d see where the best positions for it are. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.<\/p>\n

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I need to have the transceiver high enough to be able to reach it and see the screen (one of the constant problems with Rosie’s old Icom) but leave enough space so as not to interfere with switches and controls and also not have wire and cable hanging around where someone (me or my passenger) could damage it or inadvertently pull out a plug. More tricky than you might think. Oh yes, and I must also leave enough room for the main placard on the panel as well \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took another look today and had a sit inside and I think if I don’t replace the thick padding, I’ll probably regret it later on. It’s very frustrating because I’d hoped to get a lot done this week-end (and the weather is going to be good too) but in the whole scheme of things, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}