It sure is a fun little radio, Peter. I get mine out and use it every now and then and have a blast. It reminds me of my nostalgic Novice days with those FT243 crystals. -- Dale Holloway,

Reminder: Wednesday Evening 40 and 80 meter Nets When: Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 20:00 to 21:00, (GMT-06:00) America/Chicago Where:40 and 80 Meters View Event Organizer:

Hi. I just wanted to say thank you to 4SQRP for designing and helping me build my Bayou Jumper several years ago. It is such a fun and challenging rig to operate. The history of the Paraset radio in

I use 62/36/2 Rosen core and 625 F

Hi Woody, as stated below, soldering is as much an art as a science. I personally use 62/36/2 Rosen core solder. It is a utectic blend that contains 2% silver which really improves the wetting

Reminder: Wednesday Evening 40 and 80 meter Nets When: Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 20:00 to 21:00, (GMT-06:00) America/Chicago Where:40 and 80 Meters View Event Organizer:

This is the format of the instructions given to the Japanese Imperial Army, Pacific, for surrender on 17 Aug. 1945; V-J Day was 15 August 1945. The complete original text is in VMARS, Signal

Andy, quick question for you. What is the least expensive way to ship books to Scotland from the US? I looked at our US Post Office regs and it is bewildering - what with VAT's and the like. Certainly

Interesting but when building would it be hard to keep flipping the board to solder? I also note the sloppy LED installation in the one image...

Thanks again to everyone. Someone has opted to get them all (thanks, EuGene). Had several offers and I am so delighted not to have them go in the trash! I will be soooooo glad when Covid get's

As a Scottish Ham licensed in early 1990’ I used to wait for our club when i was a member back then to receive CQ & QST magazine Loved ALL the content no matter how easy or difficult to read an

Today's ham is NOTHING like the ham of yesteryear. No I'm not going to make any comments about the code I'm not going to make any comments about the lack of theory, just plain old don't care about

I have all but a very few (9?) of ALL the small digest sized issues. Since I'm a man of (minimal) moderation, I stopped collecting with the change to the large format magazine :-) John K5MO

If you go to Banggood.com search soldering aids they have similar ones for much less. I ordered on nice for the smaller boards tom

I give all of mine to the local library at the end of the year when I’m done with them. Head librarian is a ham but not an ARRL member so they all get bound up a year at a time and made available

I had complete QST's back to 1969 when I decided to give them away to make room in my shack for the installation of a new furnace. I took several years of them to local ham swap meets and I could not

Hi all, I was doing some window shopping at Amazon and came across

What ever happened to the kids and sometimes adults getting onto the hobby or even those who were not ARRL members who in the past clamored for the recent and even old copies of QST, 73, CQ, etc? We

Wow! As I read through all of my accumulated messages, I read the messages between between you and some other hams about how nobody wants the QST magazines and I, too, was amazed that they are still

Bob, I've been out a better part of today so I am catching up on about 40 accumulated e-mails. Although this is a late response to an early afternoon offer, if you still have any of those QST back