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I was incorrect.
When I checked DHL.com and disclosed the tracking number, more information was made available about local shipping in the US when I also disclosed my zip code.
The package has been transferred to USPS, fortunately, and I'm getting it TOMORROW!
In Transit, Arriving On Time
June 17, 2025, 3:19 am, Departed USPS Facility, AURORA, CO 80018
June 16, 2025, 9:45 pm, In Transit to Next Facility
June 16, 2025, 6:29 pm, Arrived at USPS Facility, AURORA, CO 80018
June 16, 2025, 4:34 pm, In Transit to Next Facility
June 16, 2025, 5:59 am, In Transit to Next Facility
June 15, 2025, 6:20 pm, Departed USPS Regional Facility, METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER
June 15, 2025, 6:20 am, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility, METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER
June 15, 2025, 2:28 am, Departed USPS Regional Facility, QUEENS NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER
June 15, 2025, 1:30 am, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility, QUEENS NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER
June 14, 2025, 1:00 pm, Processed Through USPS Facility, ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS)
I ran station 3174 outside on a light iron lawn chair, in the cardboard box that it came in, without antennae for about 24 hours. There are no LED ports in my Blue mini case, so for a while the board has to run naked until I know how it works. It's the dry time of year here, not even dew until fall when old Fall starts to give way to wet and windy winter. I've already been asked by the Partner where the it's going to live: the subtext is "because it's sure not going to get to grow roots where it is right now".
I wound some 38 cm, 20 turn loops from jacketed copper wire using a big cooking pot for a form, bound them with glass fiber tape, and hung them at right angles on one arm and the back of the chair so that the flat planes of the loops are oriented N-S and E-W. I hooked them up to the preamp, turned off the board, and plugged in the preamp cable.
It was getting on dusk when I re-powered it, and I was excited to hear it tick almost immediately, like a Geiger counter detecting background radiation, with a little yellow flash with each click. I came in to look at the live lightning maps and saw it participate almost immediately in a lightning strike triangulation, a new green square on the map that for sure had not been there before.
This is a good stopping place for my story in this thread, about a Blue mini from the time I bought it to the time that it is a participant in the network.
2025-06-25, 12:22 (This post was last modified: 2025-06-25, 12:24 by carseman.)
Dan,
My congratulations as well. My blue mini is due to be delivered this afternoon, having been delayed by UK customs wishing to relieve me of 45UKP . Good luck John on your own Blue mini journey.
2025-06-29, 15:07 (This post was last modified: 2025-06-29, 15:14 by Geewizard.)
I replaced my ancient rusty moldy cobwebby RED (which was still working) (with ferrite rod H-field and wire E-field antennas) with a BLUE BASIC and Cutty/DuPreezd orthagonal coils I built with their help. And it was a lot of fun building those coils.
My noise floor is lower, the detection rate is much higher, and.....wow!
Cool station numbers, for a bunch of reasons.
Did you get 777 by accident, and try to get 888 but missed it by one!?
Of course, 3173, 3174, and 3175 are three cool station numbers just because they're consecutive.
I've been doing some probes of station numbers exploiting that fact.
I'm debugging a problem and my station is new, so its setup is still .. expedient and easy.
No rain here until September, so the circuit board is safe in that original cardboard box (which protects it from bird crap).
It doesn't look like "station is new" is much of an excuse, though, looking at yours, Geewizard.
. Good luck John on your own Blue mini journey.
