The black ground terminal does not get a wire. It's connection to ground is made through the back panel ground plane. The solder mask is not covering the area around the mounting hole. The red termina

I had a similar problem with mine. I solved by connecting a 5k trim pot across the red led. With the tuner feeding a 50 ohm dummy load and adjusted for maximum dimming of the red led, I adjusted the p

I have built and use all three Hilltoppers transceivers. In my opinion they offer the best performance for the cost. They are not overly difficult to build and all have very good well documented manua

Lloyd I build baluns into all of my coax feeb lines. I also have a 1:1 current balun which is referred to as an isolator because it isolates the coax shield from the counter poise. This makes tuning v

First let me wish everyone a healthy and happy new year. It was a great start to the new year here in Huntsville Al. Temperatures in the 70s and a sunny afternoon so I was able to play radio outside i

It was a beautiful sunny and somewhat warm for December in north Alabama today so I took my three Hilltoppers and my buddy stick outside to play. Thirty was pretty dead, only copied one QSO, but the g

I successfully completed building the Hilltoppers 30 today. It works great. Power out is a full 5 watts @ 12 volts d.c. I was able to achieve this power by evenly spacing the turns on L6 , and compres

Begin forwarded message: From: John Fitzer <jfitzer1053@...> Date: December 3, 2020 at 2:57:43 PM CST To: main+owner@4SQRP.groups.io Subject: Fwd: Issue with Hilltoppers 30 kit I am forwarding thi

I use 62/36/2 Rosen core and 625 F

Hi Woody, as stated below, soldering is as much an art as a science. I personally use 62/36/2 Rosen core solder. It is a utectic blend that contains 2% silver which really improves the wetting propert