James: I had a similar situation, wondering when I'd get the meeting information. Looking back to the day I registered, I saw that I received an email from Ozarkcon, giving the meeting number and pass

Of course, I meant the April, 2021 SSS, not the April, 2022 SSS. "I must proofread BEFORE pressing the send key." "I must proofread BEFORE pressing the send key." "I must proofread BEFORE pressing the

This Sunday is the April Second Sunday Sprint (SSS). Since it falls on Ozarkcon weekend, we've added a special twist to this month's SSS. Whoever comes in first receives his choice of either a K1SWL F

Eugene: There's no cost this year for Ozarkcon. It is funded by the sale of 4SQRP kits. To get to the Ozarkcon web page, go to 4sqrp.com. On the lefthand side are various buttons. Ozarkcon is highligh

We probably need to change the DMR net reminder to reflect the accurate time of the net. While it does say 9:00 pm Central Time, it also says 0300 UTC, which is wrong during DST. 72, John, AA0VE

Well, participation was not great this month. We only had 8 people visit qrpcontest.com and enter their score. And one of those (Carl, WB0CFF) visited the site to enter a comment in the Soapbox sectio

Please remember to enter your Second Sunday Sprint score at qrpcontest.com. As usual, I hope to tabulate everything by tomorrow afternoon/evening and don't want to miss anybody. 72, John, AA0VE 4SQRP

Terry: I'm wondering how smoothly a 3-d printed reduction drive would work. Personally, I think I'd take the suggestion about buying a vernier reduction unit from somewhere. If nothing else, it would

Don't forget this Sunday is the March edition of the Second Sunday Sprint. Since Sunday is the 1st day of Daylight Saving Time, I will remind you that this contest's LOCAL time is not changing. It wil

I'm not active in the net, but remember that Daylight Saving Time starts in less than 3 weeks. Since the net is held at 8:00 pm Central time and not UTC, that means the net will be an hour earlier (ac

#cal-reminder

OOPS!!! I was busy yesterday shoveling snow and didn't get around to tabulating the results of the SSS, until now. Upon looking at the results for February, perhaps a lot of people were busy on Sunday

In most of the Midwest, it is too cold to do much outdoors (except, of course, work on antennas-hi). Why not make sure you send in your Second Sunday Sprint score today so you don't forget. As usual,

January started off quite a bit better than last January, in which the winner had only 6 QSO points and there were 5 non-zero entries. This year, the January winner (John K4BAI) had a whopping 28 QSO

Johnny: To tell you the truth, I haven't looked yet. I've got plumbers and tuckpointers running all around my house and I had to take my wife to PT. Now I'm headed to the doctor for my 6 month checkup

OK folks. I almost forgot that last night was the First Second Sunday Sprint of the new year. You know the drill. Enter your score (at qrpcontest.com) before tomorrow evening. I'll either tabulate the

Tim: The tuner has two distinct parts. If you are using it with a receiver, the only functional parts are the two switches (SW1 and SW2), the two variable capacitors (C1 and C2), and the inductor (L1)

Unlike FM, with DMR you need to "ker-chunk" your radio when you select the appropriate talk group, to let "the system" know you wish to monitor that group. Before that light bulb lit up in my feeble m

There's a similar device described in the July, 1997 QST that I almost built one time. Something like that would be fun and easy to build, but the warning about having long ragchews is important. If y

Non directional beacon. I had to look it up myself. 72, John, AA0VE

As long as we are speculating, how about a hybrid? A tube transceiver that uses a solid state VFO (for stability) (or at least a VXO). It's been done before (lots of times). Here's a hair-brained idea