A good listening technique for a weak signal crowded band is to change your rig's offset to a lower tone, then listen for that tone after sending CQ. This in itself can help your ears be the filter an

GM All, There have been a few inquiries as the the status to the 7122 8AM Thursday morning 40M net. Perhaps there is enough interest to re-open the net. I was the previous NCS and, after many years, a

Hi Curt, Sri, the Thursday morning net was discontinued for lack of checkins, and I burned out on it. There may be more interest now, so pse feel free to call it if you'd like. I'd imagine that most a

Good Idea, I'll try to do that. 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/16/2017 1:49 PM, Jeff Logullo jeff@... [4sqrp] wrote:

GA Wayne, No, but thanks for thought. The evenings are filled up to abt 10 or 10:30, what with tables and all. 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/16/2017 1:39 PM, Way

GA all, Anyone going to FDIM? NM0S, W9QS, and I are only ones that I know for sure. We will have two Four State tables to display and sell our kits, on both Club and Vendor nights. I'm carrying 13 dif

GM John, Thanks for the excellent post, good info, nothing better than having data. Cricket users have discovered that some (most) HC49S crystals wont oscillate, but that the HC49U crystals will perfo

Some importantnew info has surfaced about operating the cricket, so I thought I'dupdate my notes . The original post is below, so this post will be a condensed version, but with all of the info so far

Congratulations Jim. Excellent work!! 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/10/2017 10:16 PM, dekle@... [4sqrp] wrote:

Abt anything that will fit #26 works ok. 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/9/2017 2:08 PM, RWeeks neotoxo54@... [4sqrp] wrote:

GA Jim 18t T50-2 is what I used 20t T37-2 if you're rather use those. Good luck and let us know how it works for you. 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/9/2017 1:28 P

GM Dave, Attached is a Hi Pass Filter that I've used for years when needed. I'm using it now on the my Cricket. two kilowatt bcb stations, each abt 2 miles away make it mandatory for me on DC rcvrs. I

GM Ken, Yabut (always one of those isnt there). W0EB just posted a coupla days ago that he found very little difference in output power from 9 to 12 increase. Maybe Jim will chime in here. The designe

Thanks for trying guys, it is appreciated 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/3/2017 8:24 PM, Paul Smith psmith61@... [4sqrp] wrote:

wil be listening for ya Paul 72 WAØITP I love this radio stuff. www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com On 5/3/2017 6:44 PM, Paul Smith psmith61@... [4sqrp] wrote:

Forgot to mention earlier that if for some reason I'm not happy with the resonant pipe filter, I'm going to build another HiPerMite and shift the center freq to 400 Hz. 400 is the freq I hear in the C

Lets build one! A hunk of pvc pipe works very well, and is plenty stiff enough. I built one some years back, and if I could find it, I'd use it. The volume of the pipe doesn't matter, only the length,

Another good night, with the Cricket, worked Charles NK8O and Bill KV6Z. Jump on over fellow Crickets, lots of fun.

A lonely Cricket is calling CQ on 3580

Hi Rocky, I have just a few more pictures to upload, but nothing more revealing than what's there. At that time I'll delete the blank links that are left over from a previous photopage. 72 WAØITP I lo