Unique Excel solutions, Arduino projects, antenna building workbook, and directions for finding mines in the Grant Historic Area (Crooked River Goldfield) on the edge of Victoria's High Country. The old AX2VCI site is rebuilt to enable continuing access to Peter Ward's Arduino, RF workbooks, Excel, and XLNEC-2 project files. Booklets of historic material for many mines in Victoria's east and north-east is included, as well of some social histories relating to early times in those areas.
This is a site created to pass on a lifetime of the accumulated technical expertise of Peter Ward, who resides near Lindenow, in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Previously concentrating on antenna design and testing under the '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
Photographs on this site, and particularly in the Goldfields downloads, are courtesy of Gavin Keating, and Copyright remains his.
The Hobson's Bay Co. closed in 1888,
Candle box as found, Oro mine, Crooked River goldfield, Victoria, in 2009.
Candle box as found, Oro mine, Crooked River goldfield, Victoria, in 2009.
Throughout this site, the term "EXCEL" refers to Microsoft EXCEL, a trademarked product of the Microsoft Corporation.
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2007. A treasure uncovered from a mountain of blackberries by the immense Victorian bushfires of 2006-7
2007. A treasure uncovered from a mountain of blackberries by the immense Victorian bushfires of 2006-7
Leaving the early Victoria battery, Crooked River goldfield, Victoria.
Inside the Geff Davis mine, Crooked River goldfield,
Victoria, 2008
Victoria, 2008
FREE ANTENNA MODELLING SOFTWARE, ADVANCED ARDUINO PROJECTS, MINING HISTORIES
LOCATIONS, MAPPINGS, and ORIGINAL PICTURES of MINES, VICTORIA's EAST
OF INTEREST TO MORNINGTON PENINSULA HISTORIANS
UNIQUE MATERIAL for ANTENNA BUILDERS
NEVER BEFORE SEEN ARDUINO PROJECTS
Absolutely new and quite advanced Arduino projects are described herein on the ARDUINO, IOT, and CURRENT tabs. These may not be suitable for beginners. Although they all have sufficiently commented code, they do not contain step-by-step instructions, and the author has no free time to assist with those that do not understand.
ALL this author's ORIGINAL MATERIAL is SHARED FREELY. As all projects, especially histories, are under CONSTANT REVIEW, please do not host these files on other sites. Best to just link please.
You may download and share original material from this site for personal use.
I encourage family History and other Historical Societies to add any material from my historic research to their collections.
I would ask of those who wish to develop my unique and original Electric Fence Monitor or X/Y tester, just a simple acknowledgement.
You may download and share original material from this site for personal use.
I encourage family History and other Historical Societies to add any material from my historic research to their collections.
I would ask of those who wish to develop my unique and original Electric Fence Monitor or X/Y tester, just a simple acknowledgement.
This site also has free PDFs with HISTORY and LOCATION of mines in East Gippsland and Victoria's North East. Downloads are found on GOLD tab. A lot of research is also here for the Bullumwaal and Deptford goldfields
These downloads contain unique pictorial material. When the Victorian 'High Country' burned in 2006-7, a lot of time was spent walking these historic mining areas with Gavin Keating and Fred Sargent, documenting and photographing features that had remained unseen for decades. For the Crooked river (Grant) goldfield, the results are published as a series of individual files for each mine, and include Gavin's original photographs of sites that have once again become overwhelmed with scrub and blackberries
These downloads contain unique pictorial material. When the Victorian 'High Country' burned in 2006-7, a lot of time was spent walking these historic mining areas with Gavin Keating and Fred Sargent, documenting and photographing features that had remained unseen for decades. For the Crooked river (Grant) goldfield, the results are published as a series of individual files for each mine, and include Gavin's original photographs of sites that have once again become overwhelmed with scrub and blackberries
PDF downloads include a comprehensive Tuerong Park history, coverage of the 'Down the Centre' Mornington Peninsula Railway Extension, Tubbarubba goldfield, and Thomas' Protectorate.
This site is your download source for a set of Microsoft EXCEL 2007 files covering all aspects of antenna design. modelling, construction, matching, and measurement. These files are FREE, and downloaded collectively as 'ANTENNA BUILDERS TOOLBOX' which contains:-
1. The XLNEC antenna modeling software has been reworked to XLNEC-2 (my sincere thanks to Chris Lord, VK6BHI ), and is much easier to use. XLNEC-2 runs the NEC-2 engine using VBA functions It has features not available elsewhere. As well as being free, it will uniquely produce a thumbnail pattern for each frequency stepped. Now includes pages to assist with antenna design and matching, and plenty of parametric antenna design 'pages to automate building of antenna models of most common types. This is an EXCEL workbook, using the power of VBA, and is totally unlocked.
2. ANTENNA BUILDERS COMPANION Every calculation needed in antenna building now provided on interactive worksheets. Over seventy sheets of accumulated knowledge of practical antenna building 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 an ESP8266. The antenna rotator can be scaled for larger antennas on a full sized range by using larger stepper motor and driver
1. The XLNEC antenna modeling software has been reworked to XLNEC-2 (my sincere thanks to Chris Lord, VK6BHI ), and is much easier to use. XLNEC-2 runs the NEC-2 engine using VBA functions It has features not available elsewhere. As well as being free, it will uniquely produce a thumbnail pattern for each frequency stepped. Now includes pages to assist with antenna design and matching, and plenty of parametric antenna design 'pages to automate building of antenna models of most common types. This is an EXCEL workbook, using the power of VBA, and is totally unlocked.
2. ANTENNA BUILDERS COMPANION Every calculation needed in antenna building now provided on interactive worksheets. Over seventy sheets of accumulated knowledge of practical antenna building 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 an ESP8266. The antenna rotator can be scaled for larger antennas on a full sized range 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, as well as tracking and reporting of student progress. This material is on the EXCEL tab.
You will find a full analysis and suggestions for modifications to cheap 3D printers on the 3D tab. Files to assist users of many web based data display dashboards are on the IOT tab. Cuclists will not be disappointed with original software and bicycle projects on the BIKE tab.
Some social histories relating to a few families of the High Country, Tuerong, and "north of Lindenow"
are found on the GOLD tab
You will find a full analysis and suggestions for modifications to cheap 3D printers on the 3D tab. Files to assist users of many web based data display dashboards are on the IOT tab. Cuclists will not be disappointed with original software and bicycle projects on the BIKE tab.
Some social histories relating to a few families of the High Country, Tuerong, and "north of Lindenow"
are found on the GOLD tab