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QCX20 #1834 Lives!

 

This one belongs to a friend of mine. He got it yesterday and he brought it to me as I volunteered to build it for him.

I started on it this morning and finished the construction just before suppertime with a few breaks for coffee. It fired right up when I connected power, and all alignment parameters were right about where the book said they should be. After I got the IQ, Lo and Hi balance alignments done, I hooked up my GPS module and calibrated the oscillators. A check against my K3S which is GPS disciplined by a Trimble Thunderbolt, shows it right on. Wattmeter check shows just over 3 watts so I'm going to leave it alone. Readable signal measures .15 microvolt but 20 meters is dead right now in this part of the world so I'm going to let my friend do the first QSO with it himself after he gets it tomorrow.

Now, my own QCX20 has been shipped so I hope mine goes together as easy and works as well as this one.

Jim, W0EB
 

Know how you feel.... I had to wait until the weekend before I was able to get on the air with my QCX-20.

So far I¡¯ve worked some state side and some DX. The rig is quite easy to use.

Good luck on your build.

72;
Kurt-W2MW

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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:20 PM -0500, "Jim Sheldon" <w0eb@...> wrote:

This one belongs to a friend of mine.  He got it yesterday and he brought it to me as I volunteered to build it for him.

I started on it this morning and finished the construction just before suppertime with a few breaks for coffee.  It fired right up when I connected power, and all alignment parameters were right about where the book said they should be.  After I got the IQ, Lo and Hi balance alignments done, I hooked up my GPS module and calibrated the oscillators.  A check against my K3S which is GPS disciplined by a Trimble Thunderbolt, shows it right on.  Wattmeter check shows just over 3 watts so I'm going to leave it alone. Readable signal measures .15 microvolt but 20 meters is dead right now in this part of the world so I'm going to let my friend do the first QSO with it himself after he gets it tomorrow.

Now, my own QCX20 has been shipped so I hope mine goes together as easy and works as well as this one.

Jim, W0EB

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