Hey All, Joplin Hamfest was pretty good Friday and Saturday, more attendance on Saturday - today. Storm came through about 10 AM, dropping > 2 inches on the parking lot and overflowing the creek next

Hi Cecil, There is a Radio Shack store about a half hour down the freeway from me. The will slow me down a little but won't stop me. I have solder from them, too. My daughter was 'expelled' from

In my area the Radio Shacks are going strong, I also like their thinsilver solder so sometime back I stocked up on it just in case. -- Cecil - k5nwahttp://thepartsplace.k5nwa.com/

With the demise of Radio Shack, you might want to look at alternative solders. I have found Kester 285 with its mildly reactive flux in the 37/63 (eutectic) alloy mix to be an excellent

Chuck, Your new allergy is because you spend so much time soldering while the rest of us benefit from all your efforts. Is there such a thing as "hobby workers compensation"? Or at least disability

Gangue, As I become increasingly more mature, I find that I'm acquiring new sensitivities. Significantly, solder smoke and burning the insulation on magnet wire. I do use the method Don described

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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [QRP-L] (no subject) From: Dale Putnam <daleputnam@...> To: qrp-l@... CC: RMRC cw practice net today at 2200z. And. 2230z. On 7.0625 then 14.0625 See you

My apologies, I am handling the announcements for a while while Terry gets his internet access sorted. It was actually 06:55 when I sent the announcement, next week I'll remember to send it out

Terry: Maybe everyone was like me. I read your announcement at 7:55 and thought I should at least turn on the rig and see if I could hear anything. Then I started doing some work on the computer.

Hi Terry, Well I almost made it! From my works car park I copied a QSO in progress on 7.122 (319 - 339), I went up to 7.123 where I "thought" I heard you calling, I also heard what I think was a

I'm pleased the net report made it thru Yahoo, lets see if this reply does. 72 WAØITPI love this radio stuff.www.wa0itp.comwa0itp@... On 8/20/2015 8:33 AM, WA0ITP wa0itp@... [4sqrp]

The ionosphere hasn't been friendly lately and this morning there were no checkins. Very few signals anywhere at 8AM, and no checkins. Sri if I missed anyone who was trying to check in, thank you for

Don, Thanks. Will order some. Dave K8WPE

This Four State net meets each Thursday morning at 8:00 AM Central on 7122 kc,the Four State 40M hangout frequency. NCS is WAØITP and this is a Four State members only net. Add anything to the

Dave, The key word is "Thermaleze" - although that may be a brand name or 'heat-strippable'. Doug Hendricks, Bill Kelsey (KangaUSA) and Diz (Kitsandparts) have that type. Don

I have an old solder extractor that I removed the screw in tip from and turned it upside down. I fill it with solder, heat it up and dip my lead in it...... Sometimes still have to scrape the residue

I go down in the shack and breathe the solder fumes........ It's better than alcohol or Valium. Just walking into the shack lowers my blood pressure and the solder smoke (both literal and the

Only saw 1 and my test post and anothher in the yahoo site never made it tomy mail BOB AF2Q 4sqrp@...

KA0KRN David, Ottumwa, IA AC0WZ Dan, Fulton, MO. K6QKL Chuck, Fairview Hts. IL. W0EJ Bill, Springfield, SD. (new, welcome.) Good band, quiet , checkins welcomed. N0TGR Dick, Augusta, KS NCS.