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Proper Pa for Bournemouth Scouts

John Maggs — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:39:21 +0000

Proper Pa for Bournemouth Scouts St Georges parade 2019 A few months ago Austyn Greenfield from Bournemouth Scouts rang and enquired if we can provide a suitable pa for the St Georges parade in Bournemouth this year. He explained there would be up to 1500 people in the audience and there would be series of […]

Wonderband at Canvas with the Midas M32

John Maggs — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 13:26:35 +0000

I Did the first band on the new Midas M32 at Canvas in Bournemouth last night “The Wonderband” . It was nice to get an email this morning from Pat the bassist from the band:- PatWBK@WB.UK <patwgtrstr@gmail.com Cheers John, was a great night and thanks again for doing a top job! Best They are a […]

The Dudsbury Country Club Cabaret Night

John Maggs — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 20:26:28 +0000

It Was nice to be involved in some real entertainment yesterday (29th October 2015) at the Dudsbury Country Club on the first of their Cabaret nights with Bafaana, the Dudsbury Dancing Girls and top of the bill Matt Black who was anything but “Dull” . Great acts, a great atmosphere down to Paul and his […]

Shure BLX Frequency maps UK, K3E only

John Maggs — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:22:58 +0000

Shure and channel 38 compatibility The Shure BLX K3E radio mic systems which have no frequency display are not quite as channel 38 compatible as they might appear in the sales blurb from suppliers . The problem is that all the groups do not use only frequencies in the channel 38 range. However there are 3 groups P […]

Filta At Canvas 9/03/18

John Maggs — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:22:31 +0000

What a great night down at Canvas last night.with Filta a 90s dance cover band playing for a a private birthday party in the live lounge. It took some doing though. The party guests arrived from 8, and the band could not get to us before then. So before 8, to ease the setup, I had all […]

All IEC cables are not the same !!

John Maggs — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:01:01 +0000

IEC leads. I remember when (kettle leads) first appeared, these were uses to connect the mains to a kettle and were rated at 13 amps. IEC leads had cable which had a cross sectional area of 1.5 mm and they were fitted with plugs with a 13 amp fuse . This arrangement in free space […]

Gorwell Farm Wedding Review

John Maggs — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:46:25 +0000

PAT – Portable Appliance Testing

John Maggs — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:44:44 +0000

PAT – Portable appliance testing FAQs http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm I think this will be helpful for you to understand the legal position with regards to Portable appliance testing. in particular the case studies are particularly useful . The high street travel agent senaryo draws attention to the “vacuum cleaner” which really needs employes to do a visual […]

Loop amplifiers – The Facts

John Maggs — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:26:34 +0000

Loop Amplifiers :The good the bad and the downright ugly Loop Amplifiers are great for improving hearing for people, via their hearing aids using the “T” facility, in a church or conference environment, In these places you tend to have people speaking from a lectern or using radio microphones. This mean the source of the of […]

Combined signal and power cables

John Maggs — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:20:51 +0000

Combined signal and power cables “Why are the lighting and sound cables different” Well one thing to point out is that dmx uses rs485 and the physical layer of RS 485 requires a cable with a characteristic impedance of 120 ohms This prevents unwanted reflections of the signal and waveform distortion, For good reliable high speed transmission dmx […]