On Thursday, November 8, 2018, 10:26:09 AM EST, Bruce MacKinnon KC1FSZ <bruce@...> wrote:
Hi Art:
Curt beat me to it.? I was going to say WSPR as well.? We also do scout meetings in the evenings at church.? I had two guys working on their Radio Merit badge and we hacked up a quick/dirty WSRP transmitter, strung a 40m dipole in the parking lot (using proper knot-tying and lashing techniques of course!), and went back inside to watch our spots on wsprnet.org.? The Radio Gods spoke and we had spots on the map from Germany within a few minutes.??
The rig is pictured below.? The controller/DDS/clock board was built ahead of time, but I had the guys solder the PA and LPF.? Toroids pre-wound and Manhattan islands pre-drilled.? Less than an hour w/ the proper prep.
