Saturday, July 14, 2018

Went To The Indianpolis Hamfest Today

    I worked past midnight last night, so the hamfest was pretty much it for me today, after five hours of sleep.     
     Spent most of my afternoon/evening time Friday on the above gadget.  There's no fast way to do it if you want it to be moderately neat.  Only 110 individual connections!

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5 comments:

  1. pigpen51July 15, 2018 at 4:39 AM

    What is your basic hf rig? And what modes do you find you spend the most time on? I have not been active on hf for years, but am considering getting back into it, and am just starting to decide how much money I would have to set aside for a usable station, for what I want to do. Mostly some CW, with perhaps a little SSB, or even a look at the digital world. I have no experience with that at all, since I am an old school ham, and never got started back into the hobby after a break, until the digital world was already here, and past me.
    I am considering building a qrp rig from a kit, just to get my feet wet again, but that is not the main rig I will want.
    Any help that you can steer me to would be appreciated.
    KA8KRV

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  2. B July 15, 2018 at 9:10 AM

    Whatcha buildin??

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  3. mostly cajunJuly 15, 2018 at 11:54 AM

    Pigpen51-

    Have you looked at the uBitX?

    http://www.hfsignals.com/

    Almost NOT a kit. You get a populated board, you have to put it in a box and make peripheral connections - basically 10+ watts on all HF bands, SSB, CW and digital.

    MC
    W5OHM

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  4. pigpen51July 15, 2018 at 5:30 PM

    Thanks, Cajun. I will look into that this week. Sounds perfect.

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  5. Roberta XJuly 15, 2018 at 11:40 PM

    I am years out of currency -- I use an ancient Ten-Tec (540?) on 40 and 80 CW on the rare occasions I am on. I have a couple of AM transmitters and any day now, I will get one of them on the air.

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