Gangue, Lobstercon2019! is approaching fast! THREE weeks from this very night, many of us will be sitting in a nice restaurant and swapping stories at the NoHost dinner. So far, I have 36 registered a

Gangue, The FDIM Buildathon project has pretty much been put to bed. I have prototype kits and O*Scopes in the hands of the volunteers and we have been talking over the build and challenges of the Bui

4Staters, Many years ago, I hung out with a couple of pals, Darell WA3OPY & Ron AC5UR, who both worked at ICM. Darell was their crystal engineer and Ron was his right hand man. I was working with QCMs

Gangue, For those of you who may be interested in or have purchased the QRPme Rockmite][ SKINNY kit, I decided to add a few more parts to the kit. I took a road trip with my daughter this past weekend

Fans of the Can, Tin, Rock & Brew, Sorry for not providing an update in quite some time... I've been really busy jumping through hoops preparing college aid applications for the colleges my daughter K

Gangue, Since my very first field trip in 9th grade Earth Science class where we visited a quarry and I picked up a beautiful piece of crystal clear quartz, I've been fascinated with rocks....and foss

Gangue, I just posted the info/registration page for the FDIM 2017 Buildathon on my website. The Buildathon this year will be a crystal oscillator and frequency combination unit suitable for measuring

Gangue, The crystal grinding workshop at Ozarkcon was given by Darrel Brehm, WA3OPY, Ron Hale, AC5UR, and me, W1REX. My friends Darrel and Ron both work at International Crystal Manufacturing in Oklah

Fans of the Can, Tin, Rock & Brew, I've been burning the midnight oil up at the QRPme shop getting orders kitted, packed and out the door. I think I'm down to 3 that I haven't shipped yet....but will

Fans of the Tin, Can, Rock and home brew, After at least a half dozen attempts and a small pile of assembled Sea Sprite boards sitting over in the corner of my bench, I finally got a video build that

Paul, I took no offence.. to the referral of RCA as those blasted RCAs... They are certainly a bit more of a pain then BNC jacks and cables on the Rockmite stuff. I use the RCA on the tuna can kits 'c

Paul, Nobody is making you use those blasted RCA jacks....hihi. The answer is simple. Install BNC bulkhead jacks in the sidewall of the can and use short pieces of homemade twisted lead to make connec

Gangue, Rode/Flew/Bused/Drove home Sunday night arriving back home in Limerick about 3:30AM Monday morning. Spending over a month of 20+ hour days left me kinda run down. Caught something on the way h

Gangue, Yesterday was a blur trying to get all my last minute chores done and everything packed and ready to travel. Worked all day without even stopping for lunch or dinner. Ate a few crackers while

Gangue, Only four more days until the BIG event. Only for more days to round up the proper attitude, lighted pocket magnifier or visor, small needle-nose pliers and travel DMM if you think you might n

Gangue, I started yesterday with a LOT of stress! There were only 7 days until the big WBB event and the status as of Friday morning was: FDIM WBB kits required = 300 FDIM WBB kits kitted = 0 FDIM WBB

Gangue, There are only 8 days remaining until the WBB! I posted a parts list for the WBB kit here: http://qrpme.com/docs/WBB%20BOM.pdf Ron mentioned Red Blindness...I know a couple of builders who are

4SQRP-ers, It was pointed out to me that I had ignored you guys. Not really, I just thought EVERYBODY going to FDIM would see my posts on the QRP-L list. It was pointed out to me that THAT was NOT the

Gangue, The INFO & Registration page for the FDIM Buildathon is now up on my web site. SEE: http://qrpme.com/?p=product&id=B16 As per last year, the Buildathon will start at about 4:00PM on Friday aft

Gangue, I've been tasked to once again host the Buildathon event at FDIM. I am looking for some EXPERIENCED builders to help out in this year's event. If you would like to volunteer about 3 hours of y