Re: R35 & R37 on the RF Board
You are gonna have to ask Justin why he did that¡ Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J62K(J68HZ) 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ VP2EHZ Owner - Operator Big Signal Ranch ¨C K9ZC Staunton,
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K9HZ
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
I started out contesting when I was 15¡ like all my friends and most of the contesters today. The first contest I ever entered was a novice round-up. and I only made about 25 contacts because the
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K9HZ
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R35 & R37 on the RF Board
Hi.? I purchased a set of boards from Justin, AI6YM.? I working on putting the RF module/board.? Looking at the schematic, it reads that R35 and R37 are supposed to be 3.3K¦¸.? Looking at the
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Duane B
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
I've submitted scores to contests, too, and I can understand interest in where you placed. However, I think listing the top, say, 25, in each category would be enough. The complete listing could have
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jjpurdum
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Certainly no more than the thousands of people that participate in them and submit their scores¡ Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J62K(J68HZ) 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ VP2EHZ Owner -
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K9HZ
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
When it came to contest scores, I think CQ was the worst offender.? I found it hard to believe more than a handful of people would care about all of the scores in all of the contests. Jack, W8TEE
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jjpurdum
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
I was never much impressed by QST. It always seemed to be mostly a gossip magazine. Lots of contest scores. I saved all my 73's and Ham Radio magazines from the 70's, but the QSTs got recycled. Really
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jerry-KF6VB
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Another good construction mag was one by Radio Club in Finland, I was member for a number of years, lots of qrp builds (I built all the Juma kits) however most were not in English, made it hard. Nice
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Tim
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Yes, "Sprat on a Stick" is a great bargain and I have that as well. I never got to meet Rev. Dobbs, as I came to QRP radio late in the scheme of things (2009). I bought an ARRL Life Membership in 1972
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jjpurdum
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
I have printed and CD's of Sprat publications. Really miss Reverend Dobbs! Met him a FDIM. QST articles are lame and have mistakes or incorrect data, supposed to be reviewed but stuff gets thru. QEX
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Tim
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Re: Confirmation of T41-EP Open Source Licenses
#t41-ep
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Jack and Al Given that you're stepping back from the T41 software, can you clarify the last section of the copyright block: Thanks Terrance
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Terrance Robertson, KN6ZDE
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Jack, I have subscribed to both the ARRL QST and RADCOM, and I suspect that if one tallied up the construction articles in the course of a year, the RadCOM would be definitely ahead with the shear
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J P Watters
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
I agree. Al and I submitted a mag loop and controller article to QST several years ago, and the editors rejected it saying people don't like building antennas and they had too many antenna articles
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jjpurdum
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
QST has fallen behind members needs, I to used to look forward to building projects from QST as well as Popular Electronics. RSGB's Radcom is a much better magazine. Plus the organization is much more
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Tim
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More boards and kits info...
For those of you that ordered T41 board sets with the MAIN board in the set (A Full set of V12 boards, or an Upgrade set of $1 V12 boards), You got a pre-programmed ATTiny85 just like usual with the
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K9HZ
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Re: TX IQ Cal question
Sorry, Its easter so plenty of family things going on today¡ usually you just need to ask and one of us will get back with you. Glad you are having success. Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J68HZ 8P6HK
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K9HZ
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Re: TX IQ Cal question
I was not getting any were with TX cal. T41 was in LSB rx in USB, I had gain at .800 and was making it worse! Then I tries -.800 for IQ gain and all started to make sense. I was using cal instructions
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Tim
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Re: February 2025 QST Cover Plaque Award
Thanks, Doug...it's appreciated. I think there are a lot of us who used to be excited to get our issues of QST because it frequently had projects that we could build to make our stations better. I
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jjpurdum
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Update
Just a note on boards and kits. I'm a little behind on getting the latest round of boards and kits out. The response in the last few weeks was so overwhelming that I needed to stop shipping on
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K9HZ
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Re: Book
Jack, Thanks. The typo¡¯s or spelling errors I can live with. It¡¯s more the egregious type errors that get to me. Jim KE4CON From: [email protected]
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James Rospopo
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