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QSX Hans' new kit?

 

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:17 AM, Hans Summers wrote:
please let me work
Ok, you heard it folks. Leave the man alone so we can have new toys sooner rather than later! :)
 

Hans;
? ? Will this rig have the ability to utilize some of the more modern digital modes by connecting to a computer like FT8?

73;
Kurt - W2MW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QSX Hans' new kit?
From: "Hans Summers" <hans.summers@...>
Date: Fri, August 17, 2018 10:17 am
To: [email protected]

Hi all

I have put together an information page about QSX, which you can find here . Please feel free to share this page.?

To allow me as much time as possible to finish the kit, I will refer any inquiries simply to this page. If the question is not covered by the FAQ on the page, I will add the answer to the FAQ.?

I think the FAQ covers everything that has been covered so far. I specifically have not spent time on a comparison with other transceivers. There are NO other transceivers with this level of performance and features, AND in this price class. Note that a comparison with the uBITX (which was one of the is comments in this thread), is invalid based on the first condition. It is also incorrect that uBITX is cheaper than what QSX will be - the $150 estimate quoted includes the aluminium enclosure option; the uBITX has no comparable option - once that enclosure option is removed the price would be similar.?

If there is anything missing from this page, please let me know... If not, then please let me work hi hi...

73 Hans G0UPL
 

Hi Kurt

Yes. Already covered on

73 Hans G0UPL

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 6:01 PM Kurt Zimmerman <kurt@...> wrote:
Hans;
? ? Will this rig have the ability to utilize some of the more modern digital modes by connecting to a computer like FT8?

73;
Kurt - W2MW
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QSX Hans' new kit?
From: "Hans Summers" <hans.summers@...>
Date: Fri, August 17, 2018 10:17 am
To: [email protected]

Hi all

I have put together an information page about QSX, which you can find here . Please feel free to share this page.?

To allow me as much time as possible to finish the kit, I will refer any inquiries simply to this page. If the question is not covered by the FAQ on the page, I will add the answer to the FAQ.?

I think the FAQ covers everything that has been covered so far. I specifically have not spent time on a comparison with other transceivers. There are NO other transceivers with this level of performance and features, AND in this price class. Note that a comparison with the uBITX (which was one of the is comments in this thread), is invalid based on the first condition. It is also incorrect that uBITX is cheaper than what QSX will be - the $150 estimate quoted includes the aluminium enclosure option; the uBITX has no comparable option - once that enclosure option is removed the price would be similar.?

If there is anything missing from this page, please let me know... If not, then please let me work hi hi...

73 Hans G0UPL
 

Apparently some people can't read!

Roy
WA0YMH

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 10:01 AM Kurt Zimmerman <kurt@...> wrote:
Hans;
? ? Will this rig have the ability to utilize some of the more modern digital modes by connecting to a computer like FT8?

73;
Kurt - W2MW
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QSX Hans' new kit?
From: "Hans Summers" <hans.summers@...>
Date: Fri, August 17, 2018 10:17 am
To: [email protected]

Hi all

I have put together an information page about QSX, which you can find here . Please feel free to share this page.?

To allow me as much time as possible to finish the kit, I will refer any inquiries simply to this page. If the question is not covered by the FAQ on the page, I will add the answer to the FAQ.?

I think the FAQ covers everything that has been covered so far. I specifically have not spent time on a comparison with other transceivers. There are NO other transceivers with this level of performance and features, AND in this price class. Note that a comparison with the uBITX (which was one of the is comments in this thread), is invalid based on the first condition. It is also incorrect that uBITX is cheaper than what QSX will be - the $150 estimate quoted includes the aluminium enclosure option; the uBITX has no comparable option - once that enclosure option is removed the price would be similar.?

If there is anything missing from this page, please let me know... If not, then please let me work hi hi...

73 Hans G0UPL
 

Kurt,

Let us see if we can help you.? FT8 requires SSB capability.? The new radio is an SSB radio.
Do you see the connection?

IF you went here and read the page...? you know this.

http://qrp-labs.com/qsx

Allison
 

Hi

Even better, it has the sound card built in at the end of the USB cable.

I think of this as a baby KX2/3 without the internal battery and antenna tuner. It would be nice is the case has room for a small battery.

This is on my must have list!

Randy, K7AGE

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:17 AM, ajparent1/KB1GMX <kb1gmx@...> wrote:
Kurt,

Let us see if we can help you.? FT8 requires SSB capability.? The new radio is an SSB radio.
Do you see the connection?

IF you went here and read the page...? you know this.



Allison


 

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Randy Hall wrote:
This is on my must have list!
I think a lot of folks share the feeling, Randy! I don't really like taking my KX2 on hikes simply because of how much the thing cost me. I got a 20 meter QCX kit for this reason but I have a feeling the QSX might be the go-to rig when I get one built!

Michael N6MST
 

Nice Project Hans!

Waiting........!

73
Patrick
F6GWE
 

Hi all,

Some observations:
Looking at the PA board - it shows traces leading to components for two of the leads with no trace visible for the other lead of the PA transistors. If this other lead goes to ground the pinout suggests that the PA transistors may be from the IRF510 family and not of the RD16HHF1 Mitsubishi type.
The PA board looks much smaller than a WA2EBY PA board and I'm wondering what layout/parasitic issues it may present, particularly at higher frequencies.
The PA board does look completely self contained though giving the option of any other PA board of your choosing.
Given the lack of details given, it appears this part of the circuit is still in development.

I don't know enough about bandscopes and what inputs they need but I am wondering whether there will be software onboard that enables hooking up a separate (no microcontroller) bandscope module either DIY or a later QRPLabs kit.

Really looking forward to this project.

Regards



Simon
VK3ELH
 

Simon,

Its there on the board. It is hard to see in images of the board.? It would be
very poor design to use the? flange of RD16HHF as ground without firmly
grounding the board as a well or you get unacceptable ground loops
that can be pernicious at even low power at HF and VHF.

However its not a RD part.

The EBY design as is works well to 30mhz and its much cleaner
with higher bias.? 50 ma is just too low for the IRF510, its just beginning
to work there like most power MOSFETs.

Allison
 

Hans,

You can certainly sign me up for one once the kit is available.

Thanks for your continuing efforts.

73
Tim Campbell KB2MFS

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Hans Summers <hans.summers@...> wrote:
Hi all

I have put together an information page about QSX, which you can find here . Please feel free to share this page.?

To allow me as much time as possible to finish the kit, I will refer any inquiries simply to this page. If the question is not covered by the FAQ on the page, I will add the answer to the FAQ.?

I think the FAQ covers everything that has been covered so far. I specifically have not spent time on a comparison with other transceivers. There are NO other transceivers with this level of performance and features, AND in this price class. Note that a comparison with the uBITX (which was one of the is comments in this thread), is invalid based on the first condition. It is also incorrect that uBITX is cheaper than what QSX will be - the $150 estimate quoted includes the aluminium enclosure option; the uBITX has no comparable option - once that enclosure option is removed the price would be similar.?

If there is anything missing from this page, please let me know... If not, then please let me work hi hi...

73 Hans G0UPL
 

Dear Dave,

This is too simple what you say here.

Let me please explain something to you, from my side of thinking. As many, (if not a majority of the US-ham's), you are speaking as the FCC-rules are mandatory for the whole world. That is not the truth!
In the EU all "amateur-radio-people" (you? call them "ham's") do not even has to have the "CE"-sign, that will make you 'believe' that all the regulations for EMI or other "things" has to be o.k with the "device" you are buying.!
It is a kit, and as a kit, no regulation will fit in the EU for an radio-amateur-operators and the things they are buying/building! You are responsible for your own, what are you doing! (building/set on air/"bring it to life") Fullstop! Nothing to say any more here. (and for the most of the world/maybe expect for the USA)?
You are a skilled and an approved person, in the term of the legal justice in the EU (by an example,... I think same in the US. )
There are a lot of of regulations/rights, you have to respect, and there are a lot of rights you have, while you are an "expert" and approved person! You will be protected by them (the regulations), and you have to respect them also. It is a kind of giving and taking (this? is the way it is, in the EU )
The "kit" Hans will deliver, will not be a complete "radio", with a FCC-number on it, like a "family radio", or the European pentant in the 466MHz band, or even a "regulated" CB-radio.
YOU have to complete the radio, and YOU are responsible, what you will send in the air,
YOU are the "proven" person! Not Hans.?

Please open your mind, and respect what other people think and do, also if it will not fit your sense of thinking, it must not be wrong,..

Peace! - We are a group of liberal and open minded people, we live in the south, or the east, also in the west, even in the north, no yellow, no green, no blue, no he/she/it, no left, no right, we are the whole world, only people, we are 'HAM' s, - amateur-radio operators. -?

English is not my native tounge. So please, be friendly with me, if you find any mistake I made, in spelling or grammary, or the damned stupid? 'Android-keyboard' here makes, with the "German" - setting.

73 de db9pz ; Markus
(HAM / licensed since 1989 ,born in 1962)
 

Markus,

Well written.? You are very correct.? Even here in the USA with all our rules it falls to the
licensed operator to take proper care and respect the rules.?

Allison
 

Hans,

This is absolutely fantastic news!? The timing couldn't be better.? I have just been looking around for an all-mode HF transceiver kit that might have some of the capabilities of the KX-2, but finding none.? Now I discover this post and it makes me very happy indeed.? I have a QCX 40m and QCX 30m and am extremely impressed with those kits and their performance.? So I will definitely order the QSX when it becomes available.? Hans, you are the most amazing designer I know of, and I hope you realize what a tremendous service you have been providing to the world-wide amateur radio community with all of your hard work.? I really appreciate all you have done!

Al KD4EO
 

Hi Al

Amazing? No, not at all... we all have a lot of giants whose shoulders we can stand on. The rest is hard work, blood, sweat and tears. And a ridiculously stubbornly obstinate refusal to ever give up...?

73 Hans G0UPL

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 8:04 PM Al Clark <hotdogx@...> wrote:
Hans,

This is absolutely fantastic news!? The timing couldn't be better.? I have just been looking around for an all-mode HF transceiver kit that might have some of the capabilities of the KX-2, but finding none.? Now I discover this post and it makes me very happy indeed.? I have a QCX 40m and QCX 30m and am extremely impressed with those kits and their performance.? So I will definitely order the QSX when it becomes available.? Hans, you are the most amazing designer I know of, and I hope you realize what a tremendous service you have been providing to the world-wide amateur radio community with all of your hard work.? I really appreciate all you have done!

Al KD4EO

Dwatson4
 

Count me in too. Anxiously anticipating its release.

Dwight C Watson
Dwatson4@...

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