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- Wed Sep 04, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Field Kits and Reports
- Topic: QMX Field Kit
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1688
Re: QMX Field Kit
Lovely photos, Sam! My kit is very similar. I use a resonant EFHW for 20/40 to avoid carrying a tuner. My first POTA activation was in April this year. Now, at 100 activations and nearly 1600 QSO's, nearly all on the QMX, I'm still perfectly delighted by it. As you say, size, price, features, energy...
- Mon Jul 29, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: How to attach a wire antenna to a fiberglass pole?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7424
Re: How to attach a wire antenna to a fiberglass pole?
What I have observed among others with masts like that is they used a small strip of plastic. Drill a hole sized to position it where you want it to rest on the mast. Drill another hole to secure your wire. Slide the plastic strip over the top of the pole when you go to deploy it. I suppose you coul...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 13 Colonies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3304
Re: 13 Colonies
I just noticed the 13 colonies; got my first one yesterday during a pota activation without realizing what it was. Read about it this morning, picked a couple more on purpose. In the field with QMX, at home with K2 dialed down to 5w: all QRP.
But those are some ugly pile-ups!
But those are some ugly pile-ups!
- Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: How do people organize/store wire antennas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6748
Re: How do people organize/store wire antennas
Thanks, Rick. That's a clean, well-designed operating kit! Lots of good ideas in there.
- Mon Jun 03, 2024 12:18 am
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: How do people organize/store wire antennas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6748
Re: How do people organize/store wire antennas
Rick: those gift cards are brilliantly cut! Please forgive my ignorance: I understand keeping some windings on the card depending on the resonance you want for the antenna. But how do you make the connection to the radio? I'd be leary of hosting the winding card with the extra wire up into a tree le...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: Is it too hard to start out on HF with QRP?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14530
Re: Is it too hard to start out on HF with QRP?
(Looks on qrz...) Oh, THAT Teri. What a small world. Thanks for your entertaining and educational posts on qrper, Teri! GL with your 2024 goal!
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: Is it too hard to start out on HF with QRP?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14530
Re: Is it too hard to start out on HF with QRP?
Teri -- Thanks for the note. I assumed this was the case. Indeed, sked's with far-flung CWA classmates sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, depending on conditions, when I didn't have a QRO rig to punch through. Occasionally we would revert to QSO's via Signal (i.e., videoconference). For the orig...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: Is it too hard to start out on HF with QRP?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14530
Re: Is it too hard to start out on HF with QRP?
My first rig (1998) was a Small Wonder 40. Without any elmers nearby I managed to string up a dipole and get on the air with less than a watt and make contacts in multiple states at 5wpm on a good day. Like Chuck, I've recently re-entered and am using a QRP-Labs QMX. I enjoy building kits, but this ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: sBitx - any good ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8633
Re: sBitx - any good ?
No info per se: I just stumbled across the sBitx this week myself. It looks fascinating. Though the price is approaching that of a used IC-7300. I did notice some cross-pollination: a couple of the sages from the QRP-Labs forum (Allison KB1GMX, Evan AC9TU) are also answering questions on the BITX20 ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: Best beginner CW transceiver kit to start with
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18582
Re: Best beginner CW transceiver kit to start with
Here's one made byan American company that uses a bigger circuit board than most. Makes building a bit easier: I'd echo the admonitions to go with a larger, simpler kit for your first time out. I've just built a QRP-Labs QMX kit. I still have a couple issues to resolve to get it on the air. It's a ...