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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Sounds like we got started about the same way. My first transmitter was HB...two tubes, 15W. The receiver was a used S40B that I got for $25 and my antenna was a 300¦¸ twin-lead dipole cut for 40M. I
By jjpurdum · #33657 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Jack, I couldn't help but smile when I read that you got your ARRL Life Membership in 1972, I did too. I built my novice transmitter in high school electronics shop from a QST article ... I still
By Tom - AJ8X · #33656 ·
Re: FW 66.9 bug
Thanks Tim, I'll try to recreate and fix this bug.
By Oliver KI3P · #33655 ·
Re: FW 66.9 bug
Here is sequence, fairly accurate age you know! Previous session I finished TX IQ cal on 40, 20 and 75M bands. I planned on making first Q with this build today. Fired it up, all good, set power out
By Tim · #33654 ·
Re: LPF Control Board addressing help
Oliver, thanks for the reply. I thought I had traced out all of the pins on the 23017, but I may have missed something. I'll check things again. About the AD7991, "BIT" has been showing an Ad7991 at
By Robert Luken W3RDL · #33653 ·
Re: LPF Control Board addressing help
OOPS¡­ was reading linearly and missed this response. Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J62K(J68HZ) 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ VP2EHZ Owner - Operator Big Signal Ranch ¨C K9ZC Staunton,
By K9HZ · #33652 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Then we are fine. Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J62K(J68HZ) 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ VP2EHZ Owner - Operator Big Signal Ranch ¨C K9ZC Staunton, Illinois Owner ¨C Operator Villa Grand
By K9HZ · #33651 ·
Re: LPF Control Board addressing help
The LPF control cable connects to the ¡°BANDS¡± connector on the MAIN board, J12¡­. and to the ¡°BANDS¡± connector on the LPF Control board J21. It should be on on WIRE2 at hex address x25 which
By K9HZ · #33650 ·
Re: FW 66.9 bug
Can you describe how you found this bug in more detail? i.e., what specific buttons you pressed and in what order. If your radio seems to be in an unrecoverable state, you may need to reset the flash.
By Oliver KI3P · #33649 ·
Re: LPF Control Board addressing help
Soldering JP2 while leaving JP1 and JP3 open makes the address bits 101 (they are high by default and soldering the junction pulls them to ground). This should correspond to the address 0x25, as you
By Oliver KI3P · #33648 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
My point was that I¡¯m in that ¡°Give Back¡± part of my life to support this hobby, and I talk about it to inspire other to do the same.? But evidently that struck a sour chord with you.. so
By jjpurdum · #33647 ·
LPF Control Board addressing help
Finished building the LPF Control board, no detectable shorts or opens and no smoke escaped. The board is configured for I2C addressing and the address jumpers are set for address "25"(Open, Short,
By Robert Luken W3RDL · #33646 ·
Re: R35 & R37 on the RF Board
Hi Justin. Thank you for the information.? I'll move forward with the build. Duane - K5CA
By Duane B · #33645 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Hi Steve: You're right...and in some cases, those interests change over time. I ran 500W from about 1972 to 1990's and then went to a "standard" 100W transceiver. When I retired in 2009, I discovered
By jjpurdum · #33644 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
The point missed here is that our hobby survives by bringing new people into the hobby and helping them to flourish in whatever avenue keeps them interested (building, operating, POTA, Digital Modes,
By K9HZ · #33643 ·
Re: R35 & R37 on the RF Board
Hey Duane, The 0R resistors are correct. When I sent my boards to fabrication 3.3K resistors were in the schematic but this was changed shortly afterward. There was some discussion in this group that
By Justin Giorgi · #33642 ·
Re: R35 & R37 on the RF Board
Will do. Thanks. Duane - K5CA
By Duane B · #33641 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
All One of the great things about this hobby of amateur radio is that is has so many different aspects that interest just about anyone. I became interested in amateur radio twenty years ago. I ended
By Steven Ellsworth · #33640 ·
Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Like I said, you are a big contester and, while much more modest equipment, I enjoy contesting, too. I'm just not very good at it. I've participated in Field Day, the Sweepstakes, and several QRP
By jjpurdum · #33639 ·
FW 66.9 bug
Completed RX and TX IQ cal all working fine. I went into menu to change display options, as soon as menu came up it returned went back to spectrum display which was only partial display. Now it
By Tim · #33638 ·