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I'm still waiting on the buildathon kit but here you go: https://www.qrpme.com/?p=product&id=F20
Look through that. He had it working and so did someone that was helping him. There were a couple of different PS and ways to tame them. 
Because of issues he's not been able to deliver the kit yet. Most all of us that signed up decided to go through with the kit building anyway...
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Dan Reynolds -- KB9JLO
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Reminder: Wednesday Evening 40 and 80 meter Nets

When: Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 20:00 to 21:00, (GMT-06:00) America/Chicago

Where:40 and 80 Meters

View Event

Organizer: jomatlock@...

Description: The 40 Meter Net will be at 8:00 pm central time  on 7.122 +-. QRM
NCS is WQ5RP/ACØBQ 

Wednesday evening 80 Meter CW Net. will be at  (8:30PM Central Time Wednesday). 

The 80 meter net will be called on 3.564 MHz +/- QRM.
Net control operator is Johnny ACØBQ 

* NEW *  Wednesday evening DMR Voice Net will be at (Thursday) 0300 UTC (9:00PM Central Time Wednesday/)
Four States QRP has a Brandmeister DMR Talk Group (TG31654). Join us to discuss QRP, ask questions, or just ragchew. The Wednesday net is a directed net  but any other time you may use the Talk Group to chat with other QRPers.
Net Control operator is Bert NØYJ.

I second the zerobeat indicator.

I like the idea of the tube based xcvr. I've never built one, though I do have an FT-101 upstairs that I want to recap, retube, and neutralize. There's something wonky in the thing...when it has been on for a while, suddenly receive gain drops by about half. I'm thinking it's some thermal issue somewhere, but don't even have a clue where to start looking. Otherwise, it's a great radio. So I wouldn't mind a tube xcvr kit, to help me learn more about tube sets.

Other than that, getting the Freq-Mite back into availability, even if it needs a redesign so it can make use of parts that ARE available...as I gather the reason it's not currently available is because of some parts being hard or impossible to get? I've got several radios that have NO way to determine what frequency they're on, either receive or transmit, and I'd like to be able to use them with some reliable way to know WHERE I'm using them!

I once talked to a ham, John Portune, W6NBC, who had an article about QRP power level PCB traps for antennas. I even have his etching overlays for the boards. I just don't know enough about traps to be able to properly tune the things. So I was thinking the club could approach him, and convert his PCB designs to Kicad or Eagle or something, then send them to one of the PCB houses for etching a bunch of 'em. Work up a way to reliably tune them up, and make them available as a trapped antenna kit for QRP. He told me they're available for use, but for a club kit I'd probably drop him a note.

Here's his original QST article on the PCB traps: http://w6nbc.com/articles/2018-05QSTtraps.pdf

73,
Gwen, NG3P

I have a LNR MTR 3b for sale. It is in like new condition and comes with the DC power cable. It is the newer model with the LCD display. Asking $300. 73
Bobby Rolph
kb4qnr

The Nixie community has several options for HV power supplies. 

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I'm not so interested in the tube type kits. 
I still remember helping my high school buddy trouble shoot his HW-101 and getting knocked across the room from the HV in the plate circuit.   
I worked on many other high voltage circuits in the coming years (Ham and Medical X-Ray systems,) but I really loved the onset of solid state devices and the ability to trouble shoot some circuits with finger capacitance on a circuit board (without seeing stars.) 
I'm not sure I'd trust myself to keep safe around HV these days.
I've certainly not built every kit from 4SQRP, but I'll skip the tube offerings.
Happy New Year, Y'all.
72,
-Ed, WG5F-

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Ha!  Just wait until you see what I have been working on!

73 Dave NM0S

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