kinda thought it was that. still the kenwood shuting down is a mystery..i didnt think it had swr shut down.. hope the finals are ok. oh yeah the antenna problem simple :) wire touching a tree..gonna

No joy here in Nebraska I've been listening while building the K1 today. Hope to see the pig rig in the mail soon oink oink... 72/73/Scotty/NUØS Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Jim

Sorry I missed hearing you guys. I've had the SS-40 tuned to 7.0307 for the past several days listening for piggy activity. The only pig rig that I've heard is George, W2BPI. He has been very solid

Thanks, John. Very cool. I'll bet something similar could be done with a rotary switch and several xtals (within the same portion of a band, at

Great! My #147 board is all done except for needing a replacement L3 toroid, which is in the mail. His pigpen from ten-tec is flying this way too. I should have it up sometime this week. Chip AE5KA

Pig Rig #104 came to life today! It has officially been broke in with by a Qso with Terry WA0ITP. Hope to have it in a proper Pig Pen soon! Thanks 72 Johnny AC0BQ

I'm reposting this from the EMRFD group: (I'm sure all of you know of Bill & KangaUS) Bill Kelsey - Kanga US Sat Mar 9, 2013 10:07 am (PST) . Posted by: "ken evans" w4du@... I just spoke

For those interested. I found this, http://www.qrpkits.com/files/DualXtalSwInfo.pdf at Hendricks QRP Kits. 73 John, KA0KUY

Tim, Thanks, that's a good tip and I had not heard or read that before. -- David Martin - K5DCM ---o0o--- Mountain Home, Arkansas Guns don't kill

Bart: Thanks. I found out about that reflector AFTER I posted this. I'll join them today. Thanks for the info. 73, Brian

Terry, This little pig went to Ozarcon, This little pig stayed home; This little pig ate roast beef, This little pig had none. And THIS little pig went whee, whee, all the way home, was fed a proper

Just wanted to pass along a tip for making your emails easier to use. Many times we provide links to help answer a question, etc. Rather than simply typing in the link if you enclose it in angled

Thanks to all who responded with sources for SIPP sockets appreciate it. ---------------------------------- I love this radio stuff ! 72 WA�ITP www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com www.qrpspots.com

I believe Barney and I have it worked out now . Twoinvoices with SN # 172 were issued , looks like a typo . Barney's parts bag has SN # 172 on it and mine has SN #171 on it . So it looks like

Just for fun I took a crystal from the junk box to see if I could make a crystal socket with ground. It looks like it works pretty good with a 4 pin sip socket. I had to grid a little of the lip on

Terry, Here's a few sources: Sparkfun: https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=headers&what=products Futurlec:

forwarded from Rex, QRPme.com Parts:Crystals:Sockets 10pin SIP for $1each It's under Misc Parts at the bottom of the crystals list. I was looking for a separate entry... :-) Chuck Carpenter,

Terry, Jameco is probably the best source other than going direct to China... :-) Part no. 78642 This is a 30-pin SIPP Mouse has lots of them for $$$... Chuck Carpenter, W5USJ EM22cv, Rains Co.

GE DG, I'm guessing that you have a bad connection in the feedlineor the antenna itself. ---------------------------------- Ilove this radio stuff ! 72

well got an swr issue now it wont load any bands and the 440 shut down never didi that before. found a few bad grounds i'm replacing.. 440 is going away for a while will get c 21 on i forgot that dc