When I started this blog almost 4 years ago, I was getting a (very small) handful of page views every day and had no idea that anyone would find it at all interesting or useful. In fact, I don’t think anyone did at first. Then I started building a few things and found that some […]
The main reason for this post is to share my surprise and joy at the fact that the night before last (Friday night) I worked T32C with my Tut80 – a QRP rig designed by Dan Tayloe N7VE that has a direct conversion receiver and a CW transmitter that in my particular case, puts out […]
There are two Tuts in the San Francisco Bay Area that I know of – The King Tut Exhibition currently showing at The De Young Museum in San Francisco, and The Fort Tuthill 80 in my apartment in Oakland. It’s been a longish road gettting this little direct converison transceiver completed, mainly due to the […]
No major moves forward at the AA7EE shack recently, just a few little ones. I’ve been eyeing a fairly tall tree (50-60 feet) that is right at the edge of the apartment building next door. It’s just a few feet over the property line, and overhangs the small back yard of my apartment building. With […]
A week ago, the Arizona ScQRPions released their Fort Tuthill 80M TX/RX kit. I’d been keen to build it ever since I became aware of it (thank you AE5X) due to a long standing interest in DC receivers, and the fact that the first transceiver I ever built was also for 80M and also utilized […]
Dave Richards AA7EE 