Re: Roots of Hans's supply chain issues
Reminds me of the joke about the gentleman who invested all his money in toilet paper and revolving doors. He was wiped out before he could turn around................ Lee KX4TT
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Lee
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Re: Roots of Hans's supply chain issues
A friend of mine is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Microchip for one of their uController lines. He has told me numerous times that every month they could sell twice what they produce and they are
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Mike - N5AQM
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Re: Roots of Hans's supply chain issues
Well, it reminds me of my favourite "Snatch" movie line... "Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity". 73 Hans G0UPL http://qrp-labs.com wrote:
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Hans Summers
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Re: Roots of Hans's supply chain issues
Quite right. I try not to ascribe to conspiracy anything that could be the result of stupidity. I once saw a cartoon that was all too apt. ¡°Be proud of your stupidity,¡± it said. ¡°It¡¯s what
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Mike Perry, WA4MP
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Re: Deal on QRP-Labs power plugs
Those who want to avoid playing Amazon roulette might want to try this West Virginia-based vendor. They sell a lot of these plugs to those who install alarm and CCTV systems and don¡¯t want to lose
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Mike Perry, WA4MP
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Re: Roots of Hans's supply chain issues
Hi Mike It is not just profit-driven. We have seen decades of a relentless drive to make everything cheaper. Profit = Revenue - costs. The consumer pushes revenue down and the manufacturer has to push
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Hans Summers
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Re: QDX: any estimate when the last of the first batch units will all be shipped out?
Thanks, Hans. ?I found the shipping confirmation email. ?Yahoo mail does some very odd things. 73, Ben ?K0IKR
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Ben Bangerter, K0IKR
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Re: Deal on QRP-Labs power plugs
Yuck, mine are definitely copper of the right size, but as I said: Amazon uses something called "inventory commingling" to ship items from several different vendors apparently at random in response to
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Mario Vano AE0GL
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Re: QDX Surface Mount inductors
Hans, This is a totally acceptable solution for me.? Glad that you cleared up my understanding.? Now to wit for the availability of the v2 kits. 73 Evan AC9TU
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Evan Hand
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Roots of Hans's supply chain issues
The captain of a large cargo vessel has a great video explaining the various roots of the issues Hans has with getting the parts he needs. This comment about the high-tech industry is particularly
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Mike Perry, WA4MP
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Re: QDX Surface Mount inductors
Hello Evan I apologize if I was unclear. Rev 2 PCB uses through-hole axial molded 47uH inductors, as were supplied with the Rev 1 boards. However on the Rev 2 PCB, there are through-hole pads on the
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Hans Summers
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Re: QDX , Lost my TX power
I think you need to check the output of??IC5 - driver for the BS170. When my got busted - I did also measure about 27dBm? (should have been about 37dBm) out of the transistors after changing , but
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Knut Steinar Fremme OE4KSF
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Re: QDX , Lost my TX power
I finished mine yesterday an I had about 25 QSOs on 40 and 30 m (40m with Dipole, 30m with lw). Than I changed to 20m (Magnetic Loop..... I tuned the Loop before with my TS940 got get the resonance
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[email protected]
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Re: QDX, one out of four
Hello Bob, Congratulations on your 40 meters success.? This does indicate that the build is most likely OK.? Hans Summers has written a post that describes what some of the causes might be for low
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Evan Hand
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QDX firmware minor release 1_01b
#qdx
Hi all A potential new failure mode was discovered, wherein if you happened to accidentally enter a grossly incorrect calibration reference frequency in the configuration screen, you could burn two of
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Hans Summers
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Re: Stuck in Grace-Hollogne :-(((
Hi, Nov. 8 update: My QDX order did not move since October 31st¡ 9 days since the last update¡. still stuck at Grace-Hollogne. :-( I called Fedex for an update. Because I am not the shipper, they
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Jeff | VA2SS <jeff@...>
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QDX, one out of four
I recently completed assembling my QDX and and updated the firmware. I have been testing it before stuffing it into its case. WSJT has no reported problem controlling the QDX. It receives on all four
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Bob Benedict, KD8CGH
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Re: QDX has no power out
#qdx
Matt, This takes the output from the PA to the LPFs. I see it is a SM device, position shown on page 33 of the manual. Might be worth a look. If you are seeing 40 volts at T1 output with your probe
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Alan G4ZFQ
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Re: QDX - rig control error
I set up my QDX "exactly" as described by Hans in the manual and was also getting rig control errors from WSJT-X. It passed the CAT test, but asked to reconfigure when changing bands, tuning or
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Bob Benedict, KD8CGH
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Re: QCX mini constant tone
#qcxmini
I was never able to resolve this issue and still hear it on my mini. You can change the pitch of the tone by putting the mini into split mode and changing the separation of VFO A and VFO B as in the
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Gregg Myers
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