Re: Qmx MB power up and issues
Well I think I figured out why the led for the lcd isn't working. Q301 is completely missing. It appears that it was soldered on at QRP Labs but my shipment was crushed partially during shipment( as
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Hillbillieham@...
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Small ATUs for QMX?
I'm familiar with the (not so small) Emtech ZM2, and with the Kanga UK pocket transmatch.... both pre-assembled wide range Z match tuners. Are there other *small*, preassembled tuners similar to
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Jay W6CJ
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Re: A couple of new 12V power options
I have lifepo batteries, and the 14.5V is too high for most of my QRP rigs. My remedy was to build voltage dropping plugins - using 2A or 3A diodes, red/black zipcord, heat-shrink and color-coded
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Jay W6CJ
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Re: Kit Builder Tip - Enamel Wire Cleaning
Fine sandpaper works well, too. I usually use it when I have to clean enamel off of, e.g., twisted taps on cheap tuning inductors (you know the ones).
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DD5ET
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Re: QMX+ purchase now or wait to see if there are any hardware updates.
My point was the 10Watt Pa (bombproof) to replace the vulnerable 4x BS170s PA, not to just increase the rf power. 73 Ken g4apb
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KEN G4APB
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Re: A couple of new 12V power options
With the 3S power pack, would you remove the QMX cover to allow the 3 wire cable bundle to access your balanced charger?? I'm thinking along the same lines.? I have two 3S batteries, too large to
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Mark K9TR
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Re: A couple of new 12V power options
Mike, I don't think the QMX is set up for a PD power supply.? Others in the group please correct me if I am wrong in this assumption. Regards, Mark K9TR
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Mark K9TR
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Re: CW auto character space.
Rich, I built an original WB4VVF accu-keyer with memory board added decades ago.? What a pretty pile of spagetti the back side of that wire-wrapped pcb was!? The keyer had an auto character space
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Mark K9TR
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Qmx MB power up and issues
So finally got the nerve to power my QMX MB up for the first time. Have a few small glitches but no smoke so that's a win in my book. Built for 12v using RWTST, 018 firmware installed, powered with a
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Hillbillieham@...
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Re: QMX+ purchase now or wait to see if there are any hardware updates.
In my mind there is little point in adding a 10W amplifier to a 5W radio; probably the lowest sensible amplifier power would be 50W. I plan to interface my HardRock 50 to my QMXs; any amplifier gain
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Donald S Brant Jr
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Re: A couple of new 12V power options
A pre-built LiPo 3S battery pack should be fine, fully charged at 12.6V.? You can get them very cheap and very tiny for use on drones, and there is a whole ecosystem cheap low-voltage alarms and
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N1EDC
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Re: Contacting QRP Labs about order error
Thanks Kevin Now arrived in DC... I don't sleep too well on planes (you know how tall I am)... At least not since I left corporate life and QRP Labs Chief Financial Officer (a.k.a. XYL) doesn't put me
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Hans Summers
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Re: Contacting QRP Labs about order error
Hans, You can Sleep on your long plane ride home. But that probably won¡¯t help much;) It was Nice to see you again at FDIM and Hamvention but you looked like hell. I wanted to chat but you being
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Kevin Gilot NZ1I
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Re: #qmx 5V SMPS output less than 5v
#qmx
Kevin, where did you read this value at Diagnostics screen, at the left side in section "BIAS SMPS" or at the right side in section "Transmitter"? Could you show a screen dump of the Diagnostics
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@Ludwig_DH8WN
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Re: A couple of new 12V power options
Using an entire TalentCell power bank on the QMX+ ....will it fit ? There are 3 basic 12V TalentCells available with and without a USB jack *YB1203000, size (25mm x65mm x105mm), 190g, 3000mAh*
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Kees T
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Re: #qmx 5V SMPS output less than 5v
#qmx
So far no luck finding the source. My TX bias is almost twice what its supposed to be but I have yet to find a bridge or anything that could be causing the increased load.
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Kevin VA3PSL
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Re: #qmx firmware 1_00_019
#qmx
Brava!
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C R Murrell
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Re: QMX+
#160m
Hello Dan I believed that 160m operation, at 1.8 to 2.0 MHz, was on the borderline of what could be successfully be achieved when the 1N4007 diode is operated as a PIN diode. At some point, as
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Hans Summers
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Re: Kit Builder Tip - Enamel Wire Cleaning
On thin enameled wire, I use an electric arc cigarette lighter. It practically blasts the enamel off. I do find that a quick rub with some extra fine sandpaper cleans off the residue on the metal, but
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Gwen Patton
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Re: #qmx firmware 1_00_019
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Hans, Great work as usual. Those sorts of things pop-up with any new product release when it gets in the hands of a few hundred people. They will find amazing and creative new ways of 'breaking'
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Tisha Hayes, AA4HA
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