Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 30, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
开云体育N2CQR, KA4KXX, Last night was second Sunday in a row contact with N2CQR, this time heard him both amped and not. ? QSO with KA4KXX, very interesting QRZ page….me being a new Ham…..I am going to have to work on mine. W4OBY, I am guilty of finally getting him on the air on Sunday nights, he will be on that BitX40 really soon. ? At the not too distant, WCARS hamfest the day before Sundays net, while sitting in his booth, I overheard him and another ham discussing which one had been licensed first….don’t recall which one, but both were before I was born (1955). I am super excited about your QSO with Jim….our club has started a Builders Group, after I couldn’t get anyone to play with me (as readily as I wanted to play- which is all the time) so I pushed for and got it going. ?Jim is one of our Elmers. At our last builders group meeting Jim helped with the unboxing of two more BitX’s in the hands of new hams with nothing but questions. This is such an exciting time…. Although I built a crystal radio in the sixties, and worked on a tube type radar in the 70’s….I just got my ham lic’s last oct…. So….things like soldersmoke, arduinos, 6L6’s, pixies, 49r’s, BitX’s, AD9850’s, TFT’s, B40’s, Ant Analyzers, oh my…..homebrewing….all exciting. So, a while back, I came up with a building track of pixie to 49r to BitX40, with an arduino parallel track…..all of these things are getting hams to ask? what is behind the knob? The one that is getting everyone involved? The BitX40…..of course I won’t tell them, until they are sitting down, that it has an arduino in it. ?And because of the BitX40…..Jim has all of the above, and the renewed sparkle in the eye interest in these new things…..still working on the smartphone with him, when I am not learning from him. Just wanted to share…. The BitX40 has our club on fire….hard to keep track of how many have one…must be approaching 20. So, keep these Sunday Nights going…..and listen for calls from East TN Lakeway Amateur Radio Club W2IQ WeCanHams ? Builders Group Craig KM4YEC
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Craig Thibodeaux