Looks very much like a 1/4" nylon standoff John K5MO

Epson 4mw programmable oscillators 4$ ea are handy. SG8002 is the series. John k5mo

Would be a shame to destroy it. Those tuning eyes are magical. John K5MO

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Beautifully built (not by me). $20 + 5$ shipping to your USA address. Best 73 John K5MO

30 AH is way overkill for a QRP rig (the 706, which i have too, is NOT thrifty with power). An efficient QRP rig will run 4 hours off a 7AH gel cell without any problem at all. The other consideration

ARRL handbook is a really comprehensive, approachable reference book.

and a manual: http://web.mit.edu/6.101/www/reference/M3LCR_manual.pdf

This might help http://www.wa0itp.com/mcubed.html

Let me know if you want a picture of the insides... do you have a bag of parts, or an assembled module, etc? John

I have one of these (they're super handy) but I don't remember doing much more than installing three clip leads jumpers and a battery and putting it in a black plastic box. Is this the semiconductor t