A mini expedition for QRP
Love this video of some guys going on a mini expedition to work QRP in north east Oregon, Eagle Cap SOTA.
Great seeing them work CW and SSB QRP from a nearly 10,000ft summit. Just an awesome take off for RF and great views!
Sep 28
Aug 7
Got an antenna up
Today I spent some time and got my G5RV / dipole back up in the air. It's only temporarily up, the ends are on poles and the middle is on a ladder in an olive tree :-)
Oh and the coax feeding the balun/600ohm ribbon is pretty horrid.. So I have some work to do before it's a permanent or useful fixture.
Still this afternoon a quick listen on 20m CW I copied KH7Y from Hawaii, and a quick tune up to the shortwave band I heard Voice of Malaysia on 15Mhz.
So maybe not too bad for receiving, although transmitting at this point isn't an option. Will see how much I can improve it or what other options I can find to get a signal back on air.
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Jul 25
More radio kits - Small Wonder Labs
Been looking around for some kits to build and one of the places I came across was Small Wonder Labs.
I'm a bit taken by the Rock-Mite CW transciever, even a kit building noob like myself should be able to have a go at that.
The PSK kit for something like 30m might be interesting, although some of the stuff that you can do with SDR makes it a bit pricey for a once use type kit.
I dropped an enquiry email to Dave K1SWL asking about stock of the RockMite and I had a response in aobut 30 minutes, pretty good customer service.
Will make an order soon I think, mmm the smell of solder smoke, can't wait :)
