#191 made the touchdown without any problems in Germany and is preparing itself to transform into a veritable PigRig. Keep your fingers crossed that the evolution process from a happy bird to a transm

Hi Guys! Just a week till OzarkCon! Wheeeeee. I was googling the web a couple of days ago - that infinite web - and again ran across a part of our hobby called QRQ: yes it is the cousin of QRS but muc

Woo-wee! YU5A on 15 meters. That's 5 watts SSB or over 1000 miles per watt! 73 Dan -- KB9JLO

Hey everyone! Looking for some advice. I want to get myself a *NICE* soldering station - i'm sick of the little pencil irons that never seem to hold their heat well, so I want to get something that's

Plugged in the Rockmite 40 to listen to 7040 for a minute before going to bed. Heard a bunch of signals and a really strong one 'on freq', but I just couldn't listen long enough to catch callsign, etc

Been playing with a new Te-Ne-Ke, an entirely different paddle design, with different feel. http://w8cso.org/index.php?page=teneke Fun little thing tho and just the thing for a back up portable keyer.

Well #168 has officially squealed and been heard by Johnny AC0BQ, and the little fella successfully detected Johnny's signal and relayed it to my ears like a good little pig should, this was in spite

Piggie #209 is squeeling fine, glad she's mine. Cu ay OZARKCON,,, Jim kd5kj

I just stuck the Hi_per_Mite on the pigrig. Man does it ever clean up the sidetone. Lots of QRN on 40 today so it's probobly not a fair test of the HPM but it sounds vy good so far. Anyone else using

Hello everyone. I had a real good night using my Rockmite 20. 3 2X QRPs back to back. Sweet! The icing on the cake was a call from N3RUA vacationing in Moad, UT and using his RM 20 at .3W. My first RM

I wonder what xstr will sub for a MPF102? Barney

Here is a screenshot of my PigRig audio output with wideband noise input: http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/chipper74/media/pigrig_bandpass.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0 I've debated getting a HiPerMite or Elec

OK, folks...I got mine all together, and it can hear (barely!) and transmits (also barely!). I can hear it transmit in my Kenwood receiver, and if I key my Kenwood, I can hear it in the PigRig. But, c

This was copied from another E-list, as I thought that it would have relevance to this group! ;) I hope that maybe we can get a few QSO's going with WQ5RP from the OzarkCon Hotel. I think it would be

I have completed the construction of my flying pig-rig. I aligned the transmitter to the frequency and aligned the driver with no problems. The receiver is kind of deaf. When I touch the aligning caps

Spring is in the air? Well somewhere spring is in the air. But it has gotten me to thinking about putting up the tri-bander that was given to me... I also have a HamIV rotor. Does anyone have any rebu

For our digital practioners: Below is a note from the Iowa ARRL Afiliated Section Coordinator. If any of your club members are interested the weekend VOA Radiogram program has been doing numerous digi

Steve, From what I've seen of the circuit, you have a simple VXO that you use to set the frequency. Don't know how sharp the crystal filter is, but you could replace the frequency set capacitor with a

I note they are currently out of stock. Any Chance they will be available at OzarkCon?

Hey guys! Just a thought, was wondering if anyone else had ever considered it....has there ever been thought of conducting a VE testing session during Ozarkcon? I just started thinking about it as I w