Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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#qcx
What is your e-mail address?? You do not list it on QRZ.com.? I have a group that can help you. Lee, w0vt
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Leland L. Bahr
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Re: New QCX batch
How many recall that Officer "Leo" was Grandpa along with Herman in the Munsters? 73, -- Dave, N8SBE
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Dave New, N8SBE
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Re: 50+ Watts am for QCX...
Hi Hans,Good fun, but what is worse an exploding IRF fet (which i did a lot of in the 80s making 6m amps) OR an electrolyticcapacitor OR a flash over in a 4CX250 amplifier on 144 MHz?cheersGeoffGI0GDP
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geoffrey pike
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Re: 50+ Watts amp for QCX...
AMP, I meant AMP, not am. [email protected]> wrote:
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Hans Summers
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50+ Watts am for QCX...
Hi all A lighthearted intermission, that I hope you enjoy, discussing first "WHY" then the story of explosions, fireworks... and finally a successful and simple junkbox amplifier producing over 50W RF
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Hans Summers
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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#qcx
If you wish to use N1MM+ to log the QSO party you can download the attached custom contest file.? Remove the rev numbers and copy the text doc to N1MM+ user defined contest folder as QCX.? This will
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N3MNT
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Re: Cap Tester
#parts
DIY WORKBENCH: http://www.n5ese.com/capac_ckr.htm http://www.n5ese.com/l-meter.htm http://www.n5ese.com/rfprobe2.htm
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Arv Evans <arvid.evans@...>
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Re: QCX & .FT8
Hi Allison, For now my only interest is in generating the JS8 signal as a good first step. As you point out, it will be a very clean RF signal. Having done similar things in the analog modem days, I
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jmh6@...
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Re: QCX & .FT8
Using the 5351 to generate the tones for FT8 is possible once you have encoder and? its a question if that fits in a 328P micro with enough other stuff for RX.? That's not a scheme I've seen tried
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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I had a few extra cases left over from the AA build...no sense letting them go to waste! :>) As it currently stands, there are two jacks you can't really see on the top side of the case: 1) keyer
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jjpurdum
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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Looks like you may have borrowed a little hardware from the Antenna Analyzer. ?Does it have a Jack to plug in my key for practice?
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Ken Bell
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Re: Cap Tester
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Steve, Yes! I was agreeing with you. Ted asked about capacitors and inductors. BUT a few general purpose testers have been mentioned in this thread, I thought I might mention that the general purpose
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Alan G4ZFQ
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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#qcx
I second the CW Academy program. One of our club members didn't know Morse at all two years ago, took the two-course sequence, and won Rookie of the Year award in a recent CW contest. He echos the
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jjpurdum
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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#qcx
Hey Chris, I am in the same boat as you just a couple of years older.? Knew code as a boy scout but that is long gone.? I have tried most, including Gordon West and the Izaak (sp?) method.? I have
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V Zecchinelli <n1vin@...>
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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Thanks, Joe...the Morse Code Tutor is an Open Source project that I will make available right after my presentation at FDIM. I will post the schematic and source code on our site at
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jjpurdum
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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Hi Chris Different things work for different people and the only way is to practice, practice, practice with whatever aids work for you.? I started with Just Learn Morse Code (
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Peter GM0EUL
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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#qcx
Mornin' Chris: I'm an old ham, both in age and when I got my license (1954). I learned CW the wrong way. Chuck Adams' (K7QO) is a great place to start. Another very useful tool in learning code the
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jjpurdum
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Re: Cap Tester
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I don't understand your comment. about Ted saying capacitors and inductors. The LC100-A and LC200A specifically test capacitors and inductors. And they both have a zeroing function (calibrate) by
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Steven Dick, K1RF
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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Hi, Chris Google K7QO. He has a complete course in .iso format for burning to a CD. You start by learning the sound of the letters individually and end up listening to Jules Verne's "War of the
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James Daldry W4JED
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Re: QCX QSO party on Monday 29th April
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Hi Chris Your email is a subject I care about. Jack Purdum is coming out with a morse tutor which will be the ideal thing for teaching you morse code. DON'T look at and memorize printed material
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Joe Street
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