Looking like the creation of a retired scaffolder with an engineering passion, the Ariel Atom is more akin to contemporary sculpture than anything else. Study the beauty of the welding, where tubes meet for example; then step back and ponder the whole machine. Perhaps Mad Max springs to mind? Whatever, this has to be one of the most outlandish sportscars ever.

Well I for one love bizarre and minimalist machines. But this might just be minimalism too far! Kerb weight is 496kg and there is simply no fat on the bone. The option list does not include a heater, let alone windscreen or vestigial hood. Hell, this makes my favourite Caterhams positively sybaritic and spacious, but more of that anon.

Build Quality

Once you’re accustomed to the naked formula Ford looks, you notice the quality of components. Alcon brakes and monoblock callipers feature (optional), with custom inboard Bilstein dampers and special Dunlop formula R tyres and 16” wheels (option). Besides the substantial, bronze welded chassis there are lovely “Tilton” aluminium pedals and pedal box, further keeping the weight down. Other quality items abound, be it the stainless steel exhaust and manifold or “SPA” twin, easy to read dials. Everywhere you look you will find top quality bits and these all create the high calibre product that is the “Atom”.

Skimping is a word that does not exist in MD Simon Saunders vocabulary. There is something terribly British about the fellow and what they are achieving. He even runs a Defender TD5 and an Aston Martin. Hurrah! It is so enervating to find small British companies flourishing like this, confounding the experts.

Purpose

You cannot get away from the fact that this is one focused, track day car. The road car label comes second, but the company are filling a niche offering something much rawer and appealing. Quite how many buyers wish to drive a car so closely related to a motorbike may be debatable. But in this day and age of sanitised, safe everything, people are bound to kick against Big Brother and crave such a car. Donning motorbike weatherproofs and a full-face helmet adds to the frisson.

Climbing into this 220 bhp projectile is child’s play. Hold onto the back of the double moulded seat, clamber over the tubing (which has scratch protection film) placing feet onto seat and slide yourself in. Slightly easier if you remove the quick release steering wheel. Now comes the difficult part of clipping the four-point harness together and tightening everything up. Remove gloves and quietly fume inside your full – face. Once in, you won’t wish to get out every five minutes that’s for sure!

The newly enlarged 10 gallon, aluminium tank (sitting safely behind the bulkhead) will get you to most track day venues without stopping, but make sure you have visited the smallest room before departure! That one piece moulded seat slides on runners and has a bolted pin holding it in place. The steering wheel is fixed so it is important to tailor to sir’s exact requirements. I wish there was some lumbar support moulded in, but integral head restraints are spot on.

The handbrake is right by the tubing and difficult to get to when tightly embraced by the “Willans" harness. Neat racing like mirrors fall easily within reach and joy of joy, acres of footwell space await your plates, so ordinary shoes are no problem. Two pipes running down the middle of the floor take water to the tiny radiator up front. Beautifully clear dials (x2) sit directly in front of you, easily visible through the suede steering wheel (which has change lights built into the top section). How racing car is that for you!?

Light & Airy

A little blister is located either side of the dials, housing a few flick switches covering normal duties along with a rubber covered start button with key the other side. These pods are just a stretch too far for easy, telepathic operation. All around you is silver powder coated tubing with air drifting all about. Odd, very odd. There are slivers of bodywork if you can call it that. This amounts to a Concorde protruding snout and airbox / engine cover. That’s your lot. All part of the motorbike feel purposely designed in. Velcroed nylon panniers running along the sides are being developed, offering some vital ‘boot’ space.

Boot space such as it is, amounts to a titchy bin in the nose, behind the motorbike battery and fuse box.

When you see the car in the flesh you itch to drive it. Because of its’ nakedness you might feel anxious at first. Ensuring the “Toad” immobiliser is unarmed push that starter and welcome the lovely, rasping staccato bark of the Japanese spec Type R unit just behind you.

Performance

220 bhp and 496 kg equate to around 496 bhp per ton, providing enough thrills for most petrolheads. Ariel do offer a slightly tamer 160 bhp version, which would still get you to the office in double quick time!

Grasping the tiny suede steering wheel you gingerly set off, only to find a sharp, late biting clutch which can send you kangarooing down the road. Slowly get some heat into those slick like Dunlop’s (not easy in December) and feel the messages come flooding through the rim as you adjust to the weirdness of it all. The ride over bumpy British roads is very well contained, thanks to the unique Eibach springs and adjustable Bilsteins. Firm, but just compliant enough.

Pick up speed and the 1.7 turn’s lock to lock steering comes alive, writhing like a teasing lap dancer. The handling is neutral on the road inspiring great confidence. Push into a well known corner and it just hunkers down and slingshots you out the bend. With that deliciously telepathic steering, you begin to connect with this “Atom”. People not used to a 0 – 60 mph figure of 3.7 seconds will crawl out calling it “the atomic bomb”.

Quick!

Superbike junkies may call it adequate! Ariel are even planning a 280 bhp tuned version which should sate speed freaks, but believe me the standard model is just fine, safely taking you past most traffic and back before they knew you were there. At motorway speeds in December the wind chill factor comes in, freezing you quicker if not properly attired. Somehow a driver might keep warmer, as more blood courses round him as he concentrates on the job in hand. The photographer called it the “Atom FF”. Something to do with not dressing correctly and cold weather! Top speed is about 140 mph, which will feel like 160 mph! It sits quite happily at about 85 mph on motorways with plenty in reserve. Consumption may average out at 22 mpg driven with some gusto.

So the wind rips at your clothes and hooligan roundabout exits are not recommended, but could you drive for hours up a motorway? Not really. That wind again upsets the applecart. It gets under your full – face and tries to rip it off your head! So you adopt a slight head down style, which takes its toll on neck muscles after a while. You also miss some of the intoxicating induction roar with helmet on as you stretch it through each gear. The electric fan makes an awful noise in slow traffic, cutting in and out regularly, upsetting the whole sportscar ambiance.

Solid

Passing artics is fine and I felt less vulnerable than I possibly might in something akin to a Caterham. The main tubing is big enough to engender a safe, reassuring feeling.

Add to the fact that you sit down in this overhead lighting gantry on wheels with good forward visibility and you have nothing to worry about. Reversing however, is a complete bastard! All kitted up you can hardly see a thing. If ever a car needed park sensors as an option then this has to be it.

Also on a road car - and you may curse me for my nannyness - I would like to find ABS and traction control, even if they add some 2kg to the weight. I simply would not fancy connecting with an artic, having hit a patch of diesel coming out of a roundabout for example.

Comfy Version?

I also believe there's room in the range for a 3rd more road friendly version. A version with a centre console with cubbies to hold a mobile, wallet, bottle of water and filofax, plus a cigar socket to charge the ubiquitous mobile or run a radar detector. The clear perspex side panels and bigger wind deflectors are optional. As I write I was told they are planning an adjustable mini screen a la Healey 100 from the 50’s, which should be available in 3 months time.

Even so, you can bet your bottom dollar that such a positive, fast reacting company will carry on honing this unique, infectious road missile. The new VTec running gear is only some 10kg heavier with a better power delivery and so much more reliable than tuned K series models that increased loyalty is assured.

Weight distribution is a perfect 40 – 60% front to rear, giving better traction out of corners etc. Production is still 1 per week, but by November 2004 the new factory and showroom will be complete, ensuring 2 cars find their way onto the roads. Exports snaffle 50% of production, but 2nd hand values are far stronger than peaky, bike engined Westfields and the like. The average Type R car sells for £24,000 and the new baby bro 160 bhp model some £19,000 +. A 3-4,000 mile used example will cost about £17,500. Simon Saunders is also looking at introducing Atom driving days and maybe an Atom race series to speed development and eradicate glitches.

If you love bikes but hate oily roundabouts then try the bike with four wheels. The acceleration is stunning - you will be “atomised”.

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I have just released GNU Gatekeeper version 5.3.

You can download it from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This release has a number of new features as well as some important bug
fixes.

Whats new ?

• LRQ loop detection to optimize calls flows between multiple neighbor gatekeepers This new feature has the potential to significantly reduce the load on all gatekeepers and prevent "LRQ storms".
• new routing policy to set call destinations by querying HTTP or REST servers, see [Routing::Http]
• much improved support for SNMP
• important bug fix for TLS encryption of signaling channels
• important bug fixes for H.460.18 NAT traversal (for H.245 tunneling and for multi-homed servers)
• performance optimization: this version can handle 5-10% more proxied  calls on the same hardware
• performance optimization: re-authenticate lightweight, additive registrations only when new aliases differ. This significantly reduces the load on password databases.

Enjoy!


Full change log:

- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) don't send H.245 address to tunneling
  H.460.18 endpoint, breaks call when H.245 multiplexing
- performance optimization: 5% faster UDP handling
- changed default: [SNMP] Implementation=PTlib
- remove unfinished Windows-SNMP implementation, use PTLib-SNMP on Windows
- support SET and GET-NEXT in PTLib-SNMP
- support SNMP sysUpTime when running as standalone agent
- BUGFIX(configure.in) LARGE_FDSET defaults to off
- new SNMP OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.27938.11.1.9 to query total bandwidth allocated to ongoing calls
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix hangup when making many TLS calls quickly one after another
- BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx) don't require H.460.22 parameters in ARQs
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix TLS without LARGE_FDSET
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) don't send H.460.22 priority field in SCI
- BUGFIX(gkauth.cxx) free memory from cached and expired passwords
- re-authenticate lightweight, additive registrations only when new aliases differ
- remove switch [Proxy]DisableRTPQueueing, always disabled now
- new routing policy: http with config section [Routing::Http]
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix H.460.18 on multi-homed servers (SCI comes from the correct IP now)
- new switch to disable SNMP traps [SNMP] EnableTraps=0
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) don't throw SNMP trap on H.245 connection errors
  (causes crash under load with Net-SNMP)
- BUGFIX(snmp.cxx) shutdown GnuGk when SNMP agent can't be started
- BUGFIX(snmp.cxx) protect NetSNMP library calls with mutex
- changed default: ForwardResponse now defaults to 1 in [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] and [Neighbor::...]
- new feature: loop detection for LRQs [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] LoopDetection=1
- BUGFIX(Neighbor.cxx) some settings in [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] were ignored if not set in [Neighbor::...]

I am happy to announce the release of GNU Gatekeeper 5.4.

You can download it from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

New features:

• new accounting module to send accounting data to an MQTT server
• support for redis as database (eg. as backend for password storage)

Bug fixes:

• important fix for H.245 tunneling translation with H.460.18 endpoints
• fix for snmpwalk in PTLib-SNMP implementation
• fix sending alternate gatekeeper list to endpoints with assigned gatekeeper
• improved DRQ from child gatekeepers
• fix TLS with neighbor gatekeeper

Please also note that a bug has been found in PTLib that can cause a crash in any GnuGk version if you use the status port (manually of from an application). Please upgrade to PTLib 2.10.9.3!

I am happy to announce the release of GNU Gatekeeper 5.5.

This release has new features and bug fixes when you run clustered gatekeepers. It also improves the port detection feature and we have a complete and up to date Chinese documentation.

You can download it from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

New features:

• new feature GnuGkAssignedGatekeeper to push endpoints back to their intended home gatekeepers in the cluster, even if the endpoints don't support assigned gatekeepers
• support new PBKDF2 password hashes for ssh logins to the status port
• new switches to fine tune port detection for H.239 channels (IgnoreSignaledPublicH239IPsFrom=x and IgnoreSignaledAllH239IPs=1)
• new Chinese manual

Bug fixes:

• select correct source IP for neighbor pings
• set altGKisPermanent=true when redirecting endpoints
• fix RRJ to include alternates when RedirectGK=Endpoints limit is reached
• fix reading of AllowSignaledIPs= switch
• don't complain about [Neighbor::xxx] SendAliases switch when using--strict

Enjoy!

Today GNU Gatekeeper version 5.6 has  been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

It contains an important bug fix to H.460.19 multiplexing and H.460.26 (media over TCP) when using GnuGk's internal call forwarding (ForwadOnFacility).

I have also added an interop tweak to be able to call video services that don't understand H.323 URL aliases (eg. videobutler.nl). You can enable it with

 H323Plus 1.27.2 and PTLib 2.10.9.4 have been released.

Changes in H323Plus:

- support for Alpine Linux for smaller container images
- crash fixed on invalid RTCP packets
- memory leaks fixed
- GetCrytoMasterKey() restored that got lost in 1.27.1
- better support for cross-compiling
- various updates for newer compilers
- some smaller bug fixes

https://www.h323plus.org/source/

 

Changes in PTLib:

- support for Alpine Linux
- better support for cross-compiling
- various smaller bug fixes

https://github.com/willamowius/ptlib/releases

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.7 has some important bug fixes, improves interoperability
with other vendors and also has a few new features.
 

Several severe crashes and a few memory leaks have been fixed.

Improved interoperability with:

• Lifesize endpoints
• Poly's Microsoft Teams gateway
• Polycom RealPresence Capture Server

New features:

• You get a warning in the GUI / on the status port if one of your endpoints has an incorrect time setting and this password authentication fails. This makes trouble shooting a lot easier.
• Invalid TPKT packets (eg. due to network errors) now don't necessarily take down an otherwise healthy call. Use the new  AbortOnInvalidTPKT=0 switch to enable.
• GnuGk will now also return unused memory back to the OS periodically to make it available again to other applications on the same server.
  
• You have a new %{Vendor} variable for SqlAuth RegQuerys and LuaAuth

Full change log:

- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash on non-standard H.245 Indication from
  Polycom RealPresence Capture Server
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix possible crashes on non-standard generic information in OLCs
- print warning message on status port when passwords get rejected due to wrong time
- BUGFIX(httpacct.cxx) fix memory leak
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix possible crash
- BUGFIX(gk.cxx) avoid crash when terminating in the middle of program startup,
  set non-zero exit code so restarter notices error
- return unused memory back to OS periodically
- new switch: [RoutedMode] AbortOnInvalidTPKT=0 for more graceful handling of network errors
- BUGFIX(gk.cxx) fix for running on Alpine Linux (needs updated PTLib, too)
- don't start GnuGk if RTP multiplexing is configured, but we can't start the listener
- new switch: [RoutedMode] MatchH239SessionsByType=0 to fix presentations with
  LifeSize endpoints over Poly's Microsoft Teams gateway
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) make sure we don't set RTP address on multiplexed RTCP keepalive
- BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx) look at all tokens for H.235.TSSM
- add %{Vendor} variable for SqlAuth RegQuery and LuaAuth

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.8 has been released with a number of bug fixes and a few new features.

To stay updated on new releases, please also follow us on Twitter!

Improved interoperability with:

• EdgeProtect
• Avaya
  

 New features:

• experimental support for Avaya's non-standard version of H.323 (./configure --enable-avaya) (thanks Konstantin Prokazov)
• consider RFC 6598 shared network space (100.64.0.0/10) and Zeroconf (169.254.0.0/16) as private IPs
  
• new switch [Proxy] AllowSignaledIPsFrom= to skip auto-detect for messages received directly from certain IPs when IgnoreSignaledIPs=1
• new switch [Proxy] AllowAnyRTPSourcePortForH239From= to handle incorrect RTCP addresses in H.239 OLC (EdgeProtect interop)
• new switch [RoutedMode] MatchH239SessionsByIDOnly= to never attempt to match a H.239 reverse channel by type for improved interoperability with EdgeProtect
• new switches to set the HTTP Content-Type header in HttpAcct, HttpPasswordAuth and Routing::Http
• new switch [Routing::Http] JSONResponse=1 to send more flexible routing data in the HTML reponses
• many new status port shortcuts (see manual section for details)

Bug fixes:

• fix H.460.18/.19 on multi-homed servers
• fix race condition when handling H.460.19 multiplex IDs
• fix media loop on half port-detected channel when media is very early
• fix Net-SNMP query for total bandwidth
• save RTCP address from OLC for port-detection
• always check AllowSignaledIPs= before applying IgnoreSignaledAllH239IPs or IgnoreSignaledPrivateH239IPs
• handle extensions and CSRC in RTP header with H.235 half-call media
• better endpointIDs on Windows when compiling without OpenSSL

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.9 is out with a number of bug fixes and a few new features.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

New features:

• new switches [Proxy] CachePortDetection=1 and CachePortDetectionDuration= to cache port detection packets for faster media connects when IgnoreSignaledIPs= is active
  
• new switch: [EP::] ForceTerminalType=
• new place holder for port notifications: %t for port type
• experimental: better error recovery if multiplexed RTP sending fails

Please note that Radius support is disabled by default now. You can enable it with the --enable-radius switch when running configure.

Bug fixes:

• fix bug in port detection with AllowSignaledIPsFrom=
• when DNS name resolves to IP without alias, remove alias from ACF completely (Cisco interop)
• remove RTP session 0 from internal tables once H.245 master has assigned a session ID
• fix compilation of Avaya support
• initialized cmsg struct to zero before using
• fix regression introduced with MatchH239SessionsByIDOnly= switch

 

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.10 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This is a bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• fix a crash when handling the MasterSlaveDetermination message
  
• fix the documentation of [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] NeighborTimeout and consistently treat the value as 10th of a second in the program
  

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.11 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This is a bug fix release with a few new features added.

An important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed.

We also added a few features that make it easier to use GnuGk with Graphana and InfluxDB monitoring.

Changes and additions:

• remove non-working command line switch -e / --externalip, use config file to set ExternalIP
• new accounting variables %{registrations}, %{calls}, %{total-calls}, %{successful-calls}, %{allocated-bandwidth}
• new switch [HttpAcct] Authorization= to send authorization headers to support InfluxDB
• replace and in HttpAcct body with carriage return and line feed characters
• new switch: [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] PreserveDestination=1 (helpful when calling Pexip servers)

 GNU Gatekeeper version 5.12 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323downldad.html

This is a bug fix release with a few new features added.

Another important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed as well as Y2K38 issues.

This release also adds features:

• support for Oracle databases
• easier cloud deployment with IP detection with STUN
• better load scaling by mixing proxied with direct mode endpoints in a single gatekeeper
• Windows 64bit executables with VS2022

Full list of changes:

• enable more runtime hardening flags from OpenSSF recommendation 11/2023
• fix bug with H.245 address when using ExternalIP= switch without H.460.18/.19
• auto-detect public IP with ExternalIP=STUN and STUNServer=stun.example.com
• compiler support for VS2022
• new database driver for Oracle and new timestamp format 'Oracle'
• new switch [EP::xxx] ForceDirectMode=1 to handle all calls from this endpoint in direct mode
• BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx, gkauth.cxx) make sure time_t is handled unsigned to avoid Y2K38 issue
• BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) check for too small packets when acting as encryption proxy