KT4KI, Ken Brownson, has been an excellent rotor repair and parts guy for me over the years. kt4ki@... 72/73 Carl WB0CFF

QRN was a bit high in MN also. Belle Plaine has 7 inches of fresh snow. Otherwise, it was nice to see how many participants were there.

I think part of my difficulty in picking out a weak signal on 40M was maybe there were multiple weak signals on 7.122000000 making it hard to pick out one full callsign. Spreading out a bit might be a

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By the way, I did not have the antenna connected either time. In the 2012 misadventure, the antenna cable flashed over to the ground rod outside. The electrical inspector was fairly certain the ground

I'm assuming that it does. I know I have the booklet down in my radio room and possibly a spare insert on the shelf. My 2nd son is going to help by replacing the cable and I'll make sure we deal with

Just before the sprint on Sunday, I discovered that my 40M vertical would not load and I could not hear any signals. I ended up using the 160M vertical through the LDG tuner for the sprint. Last week

Hello to all 4 State QRP members, I started with the 4 States group a bit over two years ago. I have enjoyed the group. It was fun to meet a dedicated group of QRP enthusiasts. In the process, I added

Congratulations to Nick. We had to work harder than usual to complete the MN to TX QSO. Chas was strong on 40M and unheard on 20M here. The evening was frustrating fun. 72 Carl

Congratulations Chas. You were sounding very good in Mn on all 3 bands. It was nice to hear Roy, WA4DOU. I've met Roy via 6M CW. 72 Carl WB0CFF

I use the SKCC logging program and just enter the 4 State number in the comment line. It's a nice logging program. It is free. Its *.adi files upload nicely to QRZ.com log, LOTW and eQSL with no known

Hello Dave, The "spurs" that you are seeing are not really spurs. What you see is misleading and an *early* attempt at a panadapter with point & click QSY capability. They are DSP artifacts from the I

Hello Dave, The "spurs" that you see are DSP artifacts from the way I tapped into the IF of the Orion. I have since moved from an IF tap on to a SDRplay RX with an MFJ-1708SDR switching box and using

Here is a couple examples of what to expect with Pixie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZDeMXy4WGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz7wefTTz6w

I'd recommend adding a 4 States Hi-Per-Mite kit audio filter to make it more enjoyable to use. 72 Carl WB0CFF

I agree on using the RF gain also. There is little to gain by pumping extra noise into your ears. In fact, on some of the newer QRP rigs with SDR or SDR-IFs reducing the noise into the ADC seems to ma

I finally remembered to check into the net but condx did not allow for it. I did not hear Bill but did hear K3NLT, big and strong. 72 Carl WB0CFF

Hello Gary, K4VIG It was nice to briefly meet you Sunday night. I hope we can cross paths and have a chat some night. I'm often ragchewing on 80M (mostly) or 160M in the evenings. I know what you mean

I know my view might be an over-simplification but in general QRP sucess is dependant on NOT getting run over by big signals, and moving around and listening. Avoiding the 1 Khz "channels" tends to pu

Hello Gary, I tend to avoid integer value frequencies like 1810 Khz, 1813 Khz... In this day of digital dials, settling on an integer value increases the chance that someone will inform you that you a

http://www.surgestop.com/filter-products/index.html I bought filters from ICE(Industrial Communications Engineers) years ago to use when our club, WB0RMK, would get to gether to operate in the club ca