Hi Terry. What is your antenna? I'm at my daughter's IN SE Michigan wtth my Ten Tec S4020 this week. Had 2 short 20m QSOs using a homebrew Pac-12 like antenna. Hears well but QSOs come hard. 72, Marti

Hi Johnny, Is the Thursday morning net at 7:30 or 8:30. I was going to check in at 8:30 but you all went quit! The 4sqrp.com web site has it down as 8:30 Central time. Not a big issue just clarifying.

I suggest soldering two 100 ohm 1 watt resistors, or four 200 ohm1/2 watt resistors in parallel to a connector. That will give you 2 watts of dissipation which will be adequate for 5 watts power for a

Hi Doc, I’ve been a member of 4sqrp for several years and occasionally check into a net. I’ve built many of the kits and enjoyed all but one which I never got working successfully, the QRPometer. I do

17 works for me. Martin K0BXB

I listened for about ten minutes at 8:30pm CDT. I thought I heard a station but not at all copyable. I had just worked a Maritime Mobile Service Net station in Oklahoma with 5 watts on 14.300 so I kno

Hi, The station you missed was me, K0BXB in Burlington, WI. I was running five watts using an experimental antenna I am “testing” for a backpack trip to Glacier National Park in July. The Antenna is a

Dave (W7AQK) and Michael, I’d be interested in any info you care to share about end fed half wave antennas you’ve had experience with, Dave, including the tuner and deployment of the actual antenna, c

Two friends and I worked QRP and kept busy almost the whole time here in SE Wisconsin. Prop was good, noise was low and we had QSOs on 80, 40, 20, 10 & 15. We worked mostly CW but some SSB and digital

I received my cricket in the mail today and finished building it about an hour ago. Nice project! It puts out what sounds like a clean half watt at about 3.58mhz and hears a signal transmitted on my F

Hi Walter, Good idea. I just checked that out. Same on both. By the way I have a good, loud sidetone in the phones when key down so I’m suspecting it is something in the RF section of the receiver. It

After reading the documentation and looking at the schematic it seems clear the issue has to be either with Q4/circuit or U1. The sidetone seems to be completely separate from that signal flow. The Q4

Well, I replaced Q4, adding a socket. Not sure it is different from previously. I called my neighbor about a block away and asked him to give me a call. We were able to QSO, him running about five wat

Hi Jeff. Thanks for your help. My battery is still good at 9+ volts. My antenna is a tuned G5RV. I’ve played with it at different times of the day and night. No, I don’t have any other suitable crysta

Thanks Jeff. That is the kind of feedback I need. I felt sure something wasn’t right but having no previous experience with it, hard to tell. I’ll find it eventually! Have a good evening. Martin

Hi Mark, Thanks. I’ll check them out. Thanks again. Martin K0BXB www.huyettm.net

Well, I checked out the cricket today with my very old Heathkit RF generator. With the output from the generator turned down as low as it will go (I have no idea how low that is!) I can hear the signa

I don't see mine in SE Wisconsin on your map! Maybe it's because it hasn't successfully connected with another cricket yet! :-) K0BXB

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Tonight with some additional testing I discovered that when I first turn on the cricket it goes from near quiet to fairly loud then back to near quiet in about half a second. It can still hear but wit