Excuses for a lengthier post guys.
Being away from the radio for 20 or so years due to various family and business reasons (excuses?) and learned about QRP Labs, I ordered the QDX kit last summer.
Although I work with electronics all my professional life, I have not been successful in building any RF device yet. Got carried away and haven't assembled the kit till recently.
Last solder smoke was still hanging in the air when I booted the board to the current limited PSU. It came to life, no excessive current, nothing being too hot. Connecting the radio to a length of wire strewn across the room floor, acting as EFHW, I got decodes at 20m. Some USA and European stations, not bad at all.
I brought the radio and my homemade 80-10m EFHW to a vacation place near the seashore. EFHW was simply suspended between a balcony fence and a nearby5
?tree, sloping from about 4 to 2m above ground, best I could work out from that place.
Unfortunately SWR at 80 and 30m was too high so I operated mainly on 40 and 20m. Loads of contacts from Europe, some from Africa, Asia and Americas. Heard the stations from Nova Caledonia and New Zealand but couldn't work them. For 3-4W into not that effective antenna, this is total success.
Accolades for Hans' clever design and great fun from such a small radio.
72 73 Tom 9A5TT
