Hi guys,
First of all may i apologise to those of you who have found a couple of parts missing in recent kits. I have a very small brain and sometimes I loose count when I get distracted. If you do find a part missing please let me know and I'll ship you a replacement ASAP.?
Secondly a couple of kits have gone missing in the post recently and one took some months to arrive instead of the normal 10 days to the land of the brave and the free, where nothing is heard but the sound of a bird and the sky is not cloudy all day etc. I'll be taking this up with the Post office guy when the Christmas rush is over. If you have a missing kit please contact me and I'll sort it out.?
Lastly, I just got back from a trip to Budapest a day late and to the wrong airport. Continental Europe is snowed in most of the flights from Budapest to The Netherlands and Germany were cancelled so i was lucky to get home. The good news is that waiting for me were 100 PCBs and 200 T37/43s from Diz (AKA The Toroid King). So I will be packing another 100 kits over the next few days and re-stocking the shop. This will the last batch for the?foreseeable?future. Hans and I will be shutting the shop during February as we both have significant family/work commitments. Normal service will be resumed in March.
A couple of people have asked us about other bands...20 meters, 10 meters and VLF. Neither Hans or I have the time to do any significant work on these at the moment. When we started the beacon kits we had hoped that people would use them as a starting point for their own?experimentation. If anyone fancies a go at 20/10 meters (or any other band) I am happy to donate some crystals and other parts on the promise that you write the results up and post them to the QRP Labs group. I don't have any crystals for VLF. Please contact Hans or I off list...
Lastly, the RX kits are delayed for a few months...entirely due to lack of time and me starting a new career at short notice.. They will happen, apart from anything else we have most of the parts and the PCB's for the first run which is a significant investment.?
72/3 de Steve G0XAR
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It is vain to do with more that which can be done with less.
