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4S-Tuner
For this installment of Kit Corner I’d like to share a build I’ve been using for quite some time both at the home QTH as well as on some of my POTA activations. The 4S-Tuner Kit designed by N0MS and offered through 4sqrp.com The 4S-Tuner is a classic T-Match tuner for random wire and EFHW…
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Home-brew DX Commander Field Day Project
This year at field day I hosted a digital station in place of our usual CW station. It was a great educational experience as we had several FT8 and FT4 demonstrations throughout the weekend and had several people get hands on and try the modes for the first time. Because we were the only dedicated…
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QRPGuys AFP-FSK Digital Transceiver III Kit
Last fall I purchased an AFP-FSK Digital Transceiver III kit and got around to putting it together this spring. From their site “The new QRPGuys AFP-FSK Digital Transceiver III kit for 160m-10m is a low cost, multi-band, multi-digital mode, 5 watt transceiver kit, with VFO and plug-in module kits supplied for 40/30/20m.” At time of…
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Mod Electronics Guitar Pedals
Long time no see traveler, welcome back. Sorry for the delay in posts, the world has been a crazy place and I’ve been mostly keeping my head down and working on some personal projects and goals and got out of the habit of documenting them here. So let’s try to correct that. Over the last…
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Tecsun 2P3 AM Radio Kit
Back in March and April I had a bit of time to my self while my significant other was recovering from surgery and I found my self working on a few soldering projects. One of them was this AM radio kit I picked up off Amazon produced by Tecsun. The kit was fun and was…
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QRPGuys Digital Power Port
This week we have another kit build! I was part of the team that organized and ran a club build for the Kalamazoo Amateur Radio Club (https://w8vy.org/ ) last weekend. We had a great turn out and had a lot of fun building the QRPGuys Digital Power Port ( https://qrpguys.com/qrpguys-digital-power-port ). The device is a…
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First Parks on the Air Activation!
My first activation was a success! Since I worked overnight Sunday and Monday mornings, I needed to stay up during the day today to try to reset my sleep cycle. So since the weather cooperated long enough and I needed to alleviate some cabin fever, I ran over to the Kal-Haven Trail State Park (K-1511)…
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2020-02-15
It’s been a busy week, haven’t had the opportunity to sit down and right a blog post or work on any interesting projects this weeks. Sometimes other responsibilities take precendence however. Most of this weeks’ free time has been spent doing adminstration and planning for various club activities; sending emails, making posts and online events,…
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The Murania Reciever Kit
The Murania is a wonderful AM Reciever Kit that I recently had an opportunity to put together. Created by David Cripe (NMØS) and put out by the Four State QRP Group, The design of the radio is technically surface mount, but it uses through hole components. Each component needs to be prepped with it’s lead…
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2020-02-05
Game night got canceled which is a shame, but probably for the best given the weather conditions. I’m using the opportunity to try to organize my thoughts and plans for the next few weeks as best I can. Got a 1.5 km hike around the block with my backpack on during lunch, current weight is…