Hello everyone, I'm Jay W9IUF.? I built the 30m beacon kit and it is on the air at 10.140015 - 10.140020.? I may move it up in frequency though because there are a couple of others at that same frequency.? I am running 40 - 50mW right now because the 2n7000 gets warm if I go more than that.? It is connected to a Buddipole at about 10 ft off the ground inside my house in Bloomington, IN (grid square EM69rd).
So far, it has been heard in Florida and Oklahoma.? It has been on the air since the 15th.
I believe the next thing I'm going to try is to replace the processor on this board with one that will make a more distinctive pattern along with my call sign to help it stand out on the grabber screens.? I'm also going to try and figure out how to get this running outside because I'm sure that will help my signal.? It has been fun playing with it so far.? Thanks for producing the kits.? By the way, does anyone have a source for 10.140Mhz crystals?? I would like to play around with transmitter designs and that is the one part that is difficult to find.? I would be interested in purchasing a few.
73
Jay
W9IUF
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Stephen
<squirrox@...> wrote:
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On behalf of Hans and I welcome to the QRP Labs mailing list. Please feel free to post details of your beacons, pictures of your "grabs", any modifications you have made and so on. Hans and I put the kits together to encourage you to experiment and have fun. In the next few weeks I hope to put together some kits for 80 and 40 meters and we are thinking of doing some simple, high performance, RX kits for your edification and delight. Also I hope to have a QRPLabs web site/web shop up and running as time permits.
72/3 Steve G0XAR
