Winterhill ⁽²⁾

I have been pondering leaving a screen attached to the Winterhill box and ahve now acquired a screen from a retired PC. It is destined to be hung on the wall but I also wanted a keyboard and mouse for the box. I have a spare RF keyboard and mouse but they tend to always be in the way. So I found this on Amazon, cheap enough to try and discard if no good: It is tiny and works fine. It would never replace a 'proper' keyboard most of the time but for this purpose it is ideal. I am not sure how long it will last as it does seem a bit fragile, in particular the power switch on the top does not seem to be of any quality. But time will tell. I can see this being useful elsewhere around the place. It looks to have most of the keys I would ever need including the Windows key (if one must!) plus backslash and that reverse aprostrophe that is sometimes missing. It misses that Pound and Euro but never mind.

Yes, ok, this is still not about the transmission path! But I wanted to experiment a little more with the wideband part of the transponder and DATV signals. To that aim I press ganged the small HD screen from our NVR (which in turn will be wired to the large TV downstairs) and attached it the the Winterhill box. With 12V from the lab supply to the Winterhill and the 25MHz LO being fed from the diminutive Leo Bodnar mini GPS reference clock it all appears to be working as expected. This was covered in Part 2 already but today I managed to get a screenshot with four DATV feeds, although one had just dropped leaving the last image that was received. Now I need to decide whether to keep this small screen for Winterhill or swap screens with the one I use for Hamclock with the latter then on the smaller screen. I will probably do the latter as this small screen will run from USB C from the PC meaning one less socket.