Gutter Slut Dipole

The "Gutter Slut" is a portable vertical dipole antenna intended for temporary use. It gets it's name from the fact that it's made to quickly clip on to a gutter and is quite happy to go with any frequency from 80mhz to 108mhz. Hence, it is indeed a slut. Perfect for "Pop-Up Pirates" (a term i've just come up with due to pop-up shops and an old kids game from the 70's, meaning, go somewhere with a low power transmitter, find a clear frequency and start blatantly transmitting for a while, then running away to another location before getting caught). It's made from various bits of crap i had laying about. The elements are from a 30 year old rabbit ears tv antenna that came from a boot fair for 20p, they are each a metre in length so easily cover the whole radio range. When collapsed they are just nine inches. They are held by cable ties to a plastic bracket made from the blanking plate off the front of a PC tower, cut to shape with tin snips. This is then screwed to a pole with self tapping screws. The pole is an old fibreglass ariel from, of all things, a hovercraft. The clips to snap it to the gutter were made from the lid of a can of spray paint, cut out then melted into a hook. The telescopic elements make it very easy to SWR in. We got it to 1.3:1 in like just over a minute. This is just a rough prototype, v.2 will have hinged elements and a telescopic boom so it can all fold down neatly to a 10 inch pole and chucked in a rucksack. This is my thing at the moment, chuck a laptop, midi controller, transmitter and antenna in a rucksack and it's a station in a bag! Lol!
All in all it performed fine, just like any other dipole.

And yes, i do love my funky rug. It was only £10.99 reduced from £49.99 in Argos. You too can have a funky rug by following this link >>> CLICK HERE FOR FUNKY ARGOS RUG <<< :D

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Darkissed Dayze, Margate

Darkissed Dayze in Margate Kent is an up and coming art shop selling artwork, clothing and graffiti supplies.
Check their site @ www.darkisseddayze.co.uk for a taste of what they have to offer.

Or pop along to the shop which can be found at:

5 High street, Margate, Kent, CT9 1DL
Phone - 01843 296368
Email - DarkissedDayze@hotmail.co.uk

Custom artworks available, enquire via phone, e-mail or just simply drop by the shop.

Add Photo Comments To Facebook

TinyPic is starting to get on my nerves with it's captcha codes and a few other things so i went in search of another free image host with hotlinking so i can put smart arse photos and remarks on my friends Facebook statuses. Having done a quick couple of tests, this one seems cool, 10mb upload limit (more than enough) and unlimited storage time.

Step 1) Go to: http://imgbox.com/

Step 2) Hit "SELECT FILES" (surprise surprise)

Step 3) Hit "Content Type" and choose either Family Safe Content or Adult Content and hit "START UPLOAD"

(no need to bother with anything else)

Step 4) Hit the "Copy" button next to "Links Only"

Step 5) Paste into the Facebook comment box and bippity boppity boo, DONE!!! :D

EDIT: Well it's now August 2013 and it seems FB have added a "photo comment" button anyway so bollox :/
Not that it really matters coz i deactivated yonks ago. . . . HA!!!

2hr Deep Dub Reggae Mix

Found this nice 2hr mix on YouTube by Jam Sinclair i liked it a lot so i thought i'd share it.
Check out his channel for more mixes @ http://www.youtube.com/user/JamIAmMixes