Unique Excel solutions, Arduino projects, antenna building notes, and directions to find mines in the Grant Historic Area, on the edge of Victoria's High Country.
This is a site created to pass on useful bits of the accumulated technical expertise of Peter Ward, who resides near Bairnsdale, in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Previously concentrating on antenna design and testing under the ACMA ' AX2VCI' licence, but with that call-sign now surrendered, he continues to be involved in all sorts of useful projects, both electronic and historic, many of which may be of interest to others.
On this site you will find software and source code for practical DIY projects integrating EXCEL with ARDUINO microprocessors. In the EXCEL workbooks, all project VBA is unlocked so you can examine the code.
This site is your download source for a set of Microsoft EXCEL 2007 files covering all aspects of antenna design. construction, matching, and measurement. These files are FREE, and
downloaded as 'ANTENNA BUILDERS TOOLBOX' which contains:-
1. The XLNEC antenna modeling workbook has been reworked to XLNEC-2 (my sincere thanks to Chris Lord, VK6BHI ), and is much easier to use. It has features not available elsewhere. As well as being free, it uniquely will produce a thumbnail pattern for each frequency stepped. Now includes pages to assist with antenna matching, and plenty of parametric antenna design 'skeletons'
2. ANTENNA BUILDERS COMPANION Every calculation needed in antenna building now provided on an interactive worksheet. Over seventy sheets of accumulated knowledge.will especially help integrate nanoVNA with design, matching, and building antennas.
3. ANTENNA PATTERN RANGE software., Arduino based 2.4 GHZ antenna pattern range using RSSI return from ESP8266. Rotator can be scaled for larger antennas by using larger stepper motor and driver
As well as electronics, the author has interest in areas of educational research, applying technology to testing, teaching, and reporting student progress. Here is published a lot of original research into history of East Gippsland goldfields. Items also of interest to Mornington Peninsula historians would include Tuerong park history, 'Down the Centre' railway extension, and Tubbarubba goldfield
Included is s unique pictorial material. When the Victorian High Country burned in 2006-7, a lot of time was spent walking these historic areas with Gavin Keating and Fred Sargent, documenting and photographing features that had remained unseen for decades. The results are published as a series of files under the tab "GOLD", and include Gavin's original photographs of sites that have once again become overwhelmed with scrub and blackberries. (Assistance with additional material, corrections, or references is always appreciated.
Electronic projects described herein may not help beginners, as they do not contain step-by-step instructions, and the author has no free time to assist with those that do not understand. Treat them as ideas to encourage your own project. My VBA, and 'C' is very simplistic, old fashioned, and breaks all the rules. Sorry.
As ALL this author's ORIGINAL MATERIAL is COPYRIGHT, and under CONSTANT REVIEW, please do not host these files on other sites. Best to just link please. You may download original material from this site for personal study use, but you may not further copy or republish.
I make exception for family History and other Historical Societies, who are welcome to add any material from my historic research to their collections.
On this site you will find software and source code for practical DIY projects integrating EXCEL with ARDUINO microprocessors. In the EXCEL workbooks, all project VBA is unlocked so you can examine the code.
This site is your download source for a set of Microsoft EXCEL 2007 files covering all aspects of antenna design. construction, matching, and measurement. These files are FREE, and
downloaded as 'ANTENNA BUILDERS TOOLBOX' which contains:-
1. The XLNEC antenna modeling workbook has been reworked to XLNEC-2 (my sincere thanks to Chris Lord, VK6BHI ), and is much easier to use. It has features not available elsewhere. As well as being free, it uniquely will produce a thumbnail pattern for each frequency stepped. Now includes pages to assist with antenna matching, and plenty of parametric antenna design 'skeletons'
2. ANTENNA BUILDERS COMPANION Every calculation needed in antenna building now provided on an interactive worksheet. Over seventy sheets of accumulated knowledge.will especially help integrate nanoVNA with design, matching, and building antennas.
3. ANTENNA PATTERN RANGE software., Arduino based 2.4 GHZ antenna pattern range using RSSI return from ESP8266. Rotator can be scaled for larger antennas by using larger stepper motor and driver
As well as electronics, the author has interest in areas of educational research, applying technology to testing, teaching, and reporting student progress. Here is published a lot of original research into history of East Gippsland goldfields. Items also of interest to Mornington Peninsula historians would include Tuerong park history, 'Down the Centre' railway extension, and Tubbarubba goldfield
Included is s unique pictorial material. When the Victorian High Country burned in 2006-7, a lot of time was spent walking these historic areas with Gavin Keating and Fred Sargent, documenting and photographing features that had remained unseen for decades. The results are published as a series of files under the tab "GOLD", and include Gavin's original photographs of sites that have once again become overwhelmed with scrub and blackberries. (Assistance with additional material, corrections, or references is always appreciated.
Electronic projects described herein may not help beginners, as they do not contain step-by-step instructions, and the author has no free time to assist with those that do not understand. Treat them as ideas to encourage your own project. My VBA, and 'C' is very simplistic, old fashioned, and breaks all the rules. Sorry.
As ALL this author's ORIGINAL MATERIAL is COPYRIGHT, and under CONSTANT REVIEW, please do not host these files on other sites. Best to just link please. You may download original material from this site for personal study use, but you may not further copy or republish.
I make exception for family History and other Historical Societies, who are welcome to add any material from my historic research to their collections.
The old AX2VCI site, rebuilt to enable continuing access to Peter Ward's Arduino, RF, Excel, NEC, Antenna, Rife, and Becker files . Added material now covers early goldmines on the Grant (Mt Pleasant), Crooked River, and Dargo (Normanby) goldfields.
Photographs on this site, and particularly in the Goldfields downloads, are courtesy of Gavin Keating, and Copyright remains his.
Bushfires in the Grant Historic Area gave access to places that had obviously not been available for decades, and is still not of easy access. The Hobson's Bay Co. went out of business in 1888, but this candle box still sits where it was left.
Throughout this site, the term "EXCEL" refers to Microsoft EXCEL, a trademarked product of the Microsoft Corporation.
Your download files are hosted on DROPBOX.
This site is hosted by Crazy Domains.
This site is hosted by Crazy Domains.
A link would be appreciated!
If you have suggestions, useful historic material to pass on, or corrections, email me:-
