Nearly every evening on 40M, I hear Bill Crane W9ZN for an hour or two coming in from Chicago. He’s a good op. I’m not sure what his top speed is, but I often hear him conversing easily with others at around 25wpm. He always matches the speed of whoever he is talking to, which […]
I made my first ever QSO with the CC1 beta a week or so ago. It was with Jason NT7S (the designer of the CC1 and proprietor of Etherkit) and on top of that, it was the first ever CC1 to CC1 QSO. Very exciting! I was hoping to have been the first ever QSO […]
About a year and a half ago, I posted that I had completed the first beta version of the Etherkit CC-Series QRP CW Transceiver. It was a neat little rig, with low RX power consumption (of the order of 50mA – a bit less, I think), full DDS VFO coverage of any one HF band, […]
About a week and a half ago, I received an e-mail from Rich W9RNK. After a long period of home-brew inactivity (about 20 years) he decided to pick up the soldering iron and start building again. He said that my post on building N1BYT’s WBR Regen Receiver (the most popular post on this blog by far) […]
Today is the last full day of the TX5K team’s operations from Clipperton Island and they have already dismantled site B. Site B was mostly CW which meant I had to abandon my hopes of getting them on 40 and 30 in order to achieve a clean sweep on QRP CW for all bands 80 […]
Dave Richards AA7EE 