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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…

  • QRPGuys AFP-FSK Digital Transceiver III Kit

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • QRPGuys Digital Power Port

    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…

  • The Murania Reciever Kit

    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…