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Gangue,

Indeed, the Favor....email is a phishing email!?

The second one to hit my email recently. ANY time you get an email. especially a generic email, with very little personal data included you should send it directly to the can. I did get one to my personal account from a friend that I didn't ignore. I made an equally generic response but alsoI found his phone number in my Lobstercon database and gave him a call. He was not the sender and was aware that his account had been hacked. I strung the emailer along to see where it went and if I could glean any identity clues to pass on. My friend said that he had taken it up with his provider and they said that they would take care of it...but whatever they did was not enough. Bogus emails were still being sent out of his account. So always be aware. If somebody sends you an email for help, ignore it.

End of that story!

Now another story:

I'm sorry to be lax in responding to any direct emails to me on this list. One purpose of thei list to to provide space to talk amongst yourselves about building kits, QRPme kits in particular and share experieences and information. Chuck Carpenter SK, W5USJ, was my moderator on this list posted tons of data and responded to kit and building questions but he became a SK in December. You should have seek W5USJ all over my documents and pcbs as he was my ELMER for over 15 years...ever since I met him at Ozarkcon.... We talked almost daily and he provided his seasoned QRP experience freely. He became a ham close to when I was born so I relied heavily on what his opinion was on just about every QRP topic. I MISS HIM!

BUT I did have my own opinions and many times I listened but respectfully ignored his advice. One such event was the birth of the Lil' Squall kit. I didn't have any transceivers in my tuna can line and wanted to add a simple one. Halted Specialties was selling a Pixie kit based on a circuit widely known in QRP circles. The kit super CHEAP but the parts and pcb were VERY CHEAP in order to sell a cheap kit. I don't really do CHEAP kits (anymore). I started out kitting a 'stock' TT2 transmitter The parts in my kits was of the same quality as in all my kits as I use the same parts throughout. For Example, the oscillator and low pass filter capacitors are ALL 5% NPO/COG rated with either 100V or 200V ratings depending on the kit. Chuck told me he had no use for those minimalist designs and he wasn't interested. I forged ahead on my own. I wanted to turn that simple design into an experimenter's prokject kit. So I added lots of SIP pins in order to experiment with just about everything as to HOW it worked. The SIP pins allowed changes in oscillator values for changing bands, T/R offset values, crystals, transistors and of course I added a band module. The Lil' Squall was now a nice builder's baseboaard for experimenting with the design and learning from those experiments. I sent Chuck the first kit kitted up and he was strangeely quiet for days. He later admitted that he had FUN configuring and then re-configuring the kit to answer what-if I do this questions.

Anyway, right now on my bench:

?I have 6 kits for the Rockmite line in the debugging stage. I have? draft pcbs and built up projects and now? I'm working out the bugs.?

I also have 2 kits on the bench undergoing debugging that involve the FDIM Buildathon which moved to the front burner....

A little scratch built kit for my grand niece & nephew as I'm teaching them about circuits and LEDs when I take of them. A couple of eager little sponges!

Next to my bench I have a 2 story custom spiral staircase under construction, designed? by me 20 years ago and now finally being built by me. My wife didn't like the design back then and still doesn't like it now. But I'm forging ahead with it while trying to address the MAJOR design features that my wife didn't like then and still doesn't like now......

I'll try to pay more attention to the QRPme kits group in the future.

Rex? W1REX