Good Morning Group I will be busy with my monthly Civic duties tonight. Please listen for Bert, N0YJ as NCS on the 40 and 80 meter CW Nets. Thanks 72 Johnny ACØBQ -- Check out the 4SQRP website at

Gm Noah I had the same problem. You can tack it back to keep your testing in progress, then I would order a replacement. I strongly suggest using smaller stranded wires, such as 18 ga. when you

Hey y’all, I’m nearing completion on my bayou jumper and, just my luck, snapped the negative lug off the power jack when positioning the front panel. Any suggestions as to a work around/soldering

Reminder: Wednesday Evening 40 and 80 meter Nets When: 09/01/2021 20:00 to 21:00 (UTC-05:00) America/Chicago Where: 40 and 80 Meters Organizer: jomatlock@... View Event Description: The

The log summaries are in and the results have been tallied and the Scoreboard for the 2021 NJQRP Skeeter Hunt is ready for viewing :

Thanks for all your effort Larry in publicizing and compiling. Most appreciated!

Excellent work...and good info...After a recent Dr visit I'm looking and some simple antenna options... 72/73 Doc K5OSA

Reminder: Wednesday Evening 40 and 80 meter Nets When: 09/01/2021 20:00 to 21:00 (UTC-05:00) America/Chicago Where: 40 and 80 Meters Organizer: jomatlock@... View Event Description: The

I have the Par EFHW for 20, 30 and 40 and I got into Italy last week on 20mtrs CW with it. It is about 10-12 feet above the ground. Jim

When on SOTA outings, I usually tie the ends to tree branches around 4-6-feet above ground (easy reach)… For backup plans, I have a guying kit for my hiking poles from SOTABEAMS and if I am at a

I have a homebrew EFHW and find that 4ft above ground ends work for portable deployment quite well. If set up as a sloper I have used both 20 & 33ft masts. John KK4ITX Visit: www.zaarc.org.

The log summaries are in and the results have been tallied and the Scoreboard for the 2021 NJQRP Skeeter Hunt is ready for viewing :

Anyone using an EFHW Par 10.20.40 as an inverted vee? How high above ground for the ends is sufficient? 72/73 Doc K5OSA

Frequency response of a filter won't tell you the entire story, though the worst offenders are well in the past (and good riddance). One reason that many SSB radios from the 60s and 70s sounded bad

Sweeping the filter will give you an idea of the filter characteristics and its quality; Curt definitely has one piece of the puzzle. But - if you want to test the whole transmit chain (at least

Geert Relative to the filter, measure its response somehow. If you have a nanoVNA that will work. But since you have a rig, use audio software like spectogram to see the pass and just with received

(Before creating this posting, I carefully checked the guidelines and thing this falls under "QRP techniques". If not, I hope the moderators will mercifully point me to the error of my ways..) There

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I have the 6M version. Not HF, still a nice little radio, made quite a few contacts with it. Rich - K3UJ

I heard the digi on 40 and tuned up but didn't hear a peep. Nothing on 80 either. Will try again next week!