For those keeping track or mildly curious, around lunch time today the 4SQRP list has 325 members. 73, Tim N9PUZ 4SQRP List Co-Moderator

The Hi-Per-Mite has been, and still is, very popular. http://www.4sqrp.com/HiPerMite.php Does anyone have pictures of theirs to share? If so, email them to me and I'll upload them to to the kit's

I saw 2 guys do that at ARRL Field Day one year and bring up the local 2 meter repeater for a short QSO off of a small tree. Pretty wild! 73, Cliff - KU4GW

Terry, Thanks for the label! When I mentioned using a 14-pin IC socket cut in half, I should really have said "cut into quarters", meaning cutting across through pins #4 & #11, and being cut

Sounds like Randy has it mastered, I am gonna try it for the fox hunt warm up tonight. I sure hope I don't forget to turn break in off!! 72 Guys Have fun Johnny AC0BQ

Well, of course you'll get different opinions from different people and this is just mine.� Some folks think the antenna will set the tree on fire! I've had both insulated

Not really, got a pretty good beat to it at 25wpm.... suuuweee....... try it Randy_KB4QQJ

Johnny, I tried that but no reply's!!!!!!!!! I Guess I don't have thetechnique!!! 72 Geo/W2BPI

Well Scotty, down south where I grew up they holler SOOOOOWEEEE! But that's gonna be hard to send! 72 Johnny AC0BQ

George, I heard you on the other night the pig rig sounds good in Nebraska. I hope to have pig rig 192 up and running soon... 72/73/Scotty/NUØS Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID GeorgeG

Well I have been sending"oink oink oink oink oink de W2BPI/pig". But no piggys reply. So how do you hog call on CW? 72 George/W2BPI

Hi, The pig rig is cool and has generated a lot of enthusiasm. It's a single frequency rig. I have come to appreciate single *band* rigs and even single *mode* rigs for their no nonsense, no

One of the ham mags had a article about using a tree as a vertical. Don'tremember the issue or what the conclusion was. Must not have been good or guyswould be using it for portable work! 72

- I think the answer here might be, "Yes - but..." Even at QRP power levels, there can be varying amounts of interplay depending on where the tree is touching the antenna along the voltage/current

#199 arrived today – fast, like a greased pig! 73, Mike, KC0KBC

I was thinking about using single pin sockets cut from a female "breakaway" header. I'd just install them in the pcb holes already provided. Here's a link to a source and picture. They're handy for a

Great idea...... The crystals are spaced at .200", but the problem is the "individual crystal" leads are spaced at .200" apart and a dip socket spacing (one side to the other)

Looks like a perfect cloths line. Even though a little high but could work just fine. Might have to try one with some #10 and wooden fence poles with an insulator in the centre and compare it with a