Michigan QRP Week Zoom Chat
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý There will be no MI QRP Chat on May 8. It is reserved for the Club¡¯s Annual Meeting. We had thirteen folks join the MI QRP Zoom Chat on 1 May. Please join us Thursday May 15 (and every Thursday) at 4PM Eastern for the Michigan QRP Club weekly QRP Chat where the main topics will be QRP and other ham interests. New hams are encouraged to participate and ask questions. It's fun, it's easy, and it's free. You only need a computer, a smart phone, or a tablet that can connect to the Internet. OR if you can't be close to any of those you can join by audio with any standard phone. Just follow the directions below. No software needs to be loaded or installed. Anyone can join and non members are welcome. Details are here: Zoom ID: 811 0835 6229 Pete WK8S Ed AB8DF Ernie NE3TE Stan WB8QJZ Casey KC9IH Dave N8SBE Stuart M0SGV Yvon AE7YD Jerry KI4O Bill N5IM Harry K9DXA Robert G0RYL John KC1VPP Bill from TX showed up for the second week in a row. Stan has not been doing much with satellites recently. Not that many passes right now that are capable of doing slow scan TV. New Yaesu QRP rig coming out? Will we see it at Hamvention? There was a leak that there is a companion 100 watt amp. Dave had an old 817 and now has 818. The Elecraft KPA100 amp works well with it. Others use a Hard Rock amp. He has been watching the Rat Pack videos and they have a lot of interesting stuff . The most recent one was all about packing for POTA. This was Roberts first time in the chart. He is a homebrew builder. Currently playing with a one tube (valve) regenerative receiver. Stuart has his Michigan Mighty Mite working and will try to get it on the air soon. John is new to the chat. His QTH is in Connecticut. He needs CW practice. He has a QRP Labs rig. Yvon is playing with his new ZBitx. So far he is not impressed. Bill did a POTA this week. The mosquitoes were bad. Used a QMX rig and Ham Sticks which is modified to use a telescopic whip. Ernie suggested trying a performer vertical set up to help get better resonance. Harry just finished a QMX+ and it is not working. Others have been able to get SSB to work on their QMX+. He likes using his Ham Sticks for his POTA operations. He also uses the magic carpet approach. Ed uses one of these adapters with a mag mount. He puts the mag mount on the roof of his car and the adapter allows radials to be attached. Much better than just using the capacitive coupling of the mount for a ground plane. There will be no MI QRP Chat on May 8. The topic for Thursday, 15 May will be TBD. The agenda for the 15 Mayl QRP Chat:
During the open forum anyone can take the floor. We will go one by one until all have had a chance to have the floor. Files, pictures and presentations can be shared if you have any. Please try to stay muted when someone has the floor. Thanks Ed AB8DF |
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Hello Ed, I enjoyed the chat and plan to Zoom next week with you all.? Thanks for letting me join in, you're a good bunch. I could not pick you up this morning on 20 meters.? The 40-10 meter OCFD?install in my attic is a compromise. I just loaded new SSB firmware onto my high band QMX.? I also have?a low band QMX on order. Kind Regards .. John KC1VPP On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 2:48?PM Ed Kwik via <ekwik=[email protected]> wrote:
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