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Anyone using their Rockmite(s) or Sprite or Lil Squall kits?

Curt All Messages By This Member #184 Being a little bored, was looking at some of kits built in years past, realizing it has been awhile since they left the desk drawer.? From the messages on this group, seems the activity is at a pretty low ebb. I am going to start today by deploying my 20M (SWL) RM for a few afternoons.? Then on to the Sea Sprite for awhile.? Curious what others are doing with the QRPp gear these days. Curt KB5JO
Colin Evans M1BUU All Messages By This Member #185 Hi Curt, The last time that I had a QRPp rig on air was back in September I think. During lockdown I built a RockMite 20 circuit, ugly style, on a tuna can. I took my tuna can RM on a SOTA activation and I worked an Austrian station with it. I am thinking that with the solar numbers improving I will be getting more active with my RockMites. I'd like to pick up the 9v PP3 challenge again. 73, Colin, M1BUU 20210909_110814.jpg
Curt All Messages By This Member #186 Beautiful work that!? What is the 9V PP3 challenge? I been calling on 20M here and hitting RBN all over country but no takers.? Just changed over to 40M RM and one RBN hit? about 200 miles out.? Gud someone else still playing with this stuff. 72, Curt
Russell Smith All Messages By This Member #187 开云体育 I've done a little QRPp in the not-so-distant past (a year or two). ?I had a SWL 20m Rockmite (built when they first came out and worked both coasts from the middle of the USA with it) ?and a Pixie but they are believed to have gone in the tornado 10 years ago. I bought one of Rex's 40m Rockmite kits a while back and it is still sitting in its Curious George Altoids tin waiting on me to put it on the air. I may have to dig it out when I get some free time. Those are fun radios. ?However, I DID in semi-recent history get a fair amount of mileage out of my beat up homebrew Tuna Tin 2 and made several contacts including a TT2 <--> QCX QSO from Joplin, MO to Phoenix once. ?If you build one from scratch, Starkist tuna cans are far superior, of course, to Chicken of the Sea. ?I've got Charlie Tuna taped to mine. I'd probably be a little more keen on the mermaid if she wouldn't have stood me up for dinner and then went out with that dolphin. My Rex version also needs a workout. Dang. ?Now I want to knock off work early. 73, -HRS H. Russell Smith, N0QLT toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jan 10, 2022, at 2:19 PM, Curt via groups.io <rhulett1@...> wrote: ?Being a little bored, was looking at some of kits built in years past, realizing it has been awhile since they left the desk drawer.? From the messages on this group, seems the activity is at a pretty low ebb. I am going to start today by deploying my 20M (SWL) RM for a few afternoons.? Then on to the Sea Sprite for awhile.? Curious what others are doing with the QRPp gear these days. Curt KB5JO
Colin Evans M1BUU All Messages By This Member #188 The PP3 challenge was an idea put forward by Kjell LA1KHA. The idea was to see how my QSOs could be had on a standard alkaline 9v block battery, it was a SOTA based challenge where the entire activation had to be powered by the battery. The same battery would be used for activations, counting up the total QSOs. The challenge fizzled out because the batteries were lasting too long! I can't remember the highest score but I believe it was over 500 QSOs on one battery. I never really did well in the challenge because I wasn't good at CW when the challenge was running, in fact I owe it to the challenge that I can activate hills for SOTA in Morse. I made a video for Ham Nation showing my home brew RockMite 30 based rig modified for 9v. An early thread can be seen here on the SOTA reflector, later down the thread, the post from Kjell describes his idea and was the start of the challenge. The challenge was just informal between SOTA activators. 73, Colin
Curt All Messages By This Member #192 Edited Called a lot of CQ on 14.0577. RBN hearing me 7-14 dB s/n all over US, but no takers. Finally got QSO with K8RXB in MI @ 1000 miles @ 1W into a 40M FW loop. And with 40M Rockmite 7039, got W Tx 300 miles from me using 80M doublet up 50'? Curt KB5JO
Roland Whitsitt All Messages By This Member #193 开云体育 Spent the day putting together an old small wonders lab ‘hi-mite’ kit. It’s for 15 meters. Smoke test tomorrow. De N5VWN? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jan 16, 2022, at 13:13, Curt via groups.io <rhulett1@...> wrote: ? [Edited Message Follows] Called a lot of CQ on 14.0577. RBN hearing me 7-14 dB s/n all over US, but no takers. Finally got QSO with K8RXB in MI @ 1000 miles @ 1W into a 40M FW loop. And with 40M Rockmite 7039, got W Tx 300 miles from me using 80M doublet up 50'? Curt KB5JO
Chuck Carpenter #194 开云体育 Wow, I built one in 2005 then the Hi-Mite 20 later. All sold years ago. ? I put them the U frame as I like to experiment with “improvements” and the open frame helps? ? ? ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roland Whitsitt via groups.io Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 3:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [QRpmeKits] Anyone using their Rockmite(s) or Sprite or Lil Squall kits? ? Spent the day putting together an old small wonders lab ‘hi-mite’ kit. It’s for 15 meters. Smoke test tomorrow. De N5VWN? On Jan 16, 2022, at 13:13, Curt via groups.io <rhulett1@...> wrote: ? [Edited Message Follows] Called a lot of CQ on 14.0577. RBN hearing me 7-14 dB s/n all over US, but no takers. Finally got QSO with K8RXB in MI @ 1000 miles @ 1W into a 40M FW loop. And with 40M Rockmite 7039, got W Tx 300 miles from me using 80M doublet up 50'? Curt KB5JO -- Chuck, W5USJ HiMite-20Inside.JPG
Roland Whitsitt All Messages By This Member #195 开云体育 It passed the smoke test! Seems to receive. Not much out there right now. Power output seems low. Like 1/10th of a watt with 12v input.? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jan 17, 2022, at 02:43, Chuck Carpenter <w5usj@...> wrote: ? Wow, I built one in 2005 then the Hi-Mite 20 later. All sold years ago. ? I put them the U frame as I like to experiment with “improvements” and the open frame helps? ? ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roland Whitsitt via groups.io Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 3:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [QRpmeKits] Anyone using their Rockmite(s) or Sprite or Lil Squall kits? ? Spent the day putting together an old small wonders lab ‘hi-mite’ kit. It’s for 15 meters. Smoke test tomorrow. De N5VWN? On Jan 16, 2022, at 13:13, Curt via groups.io <rhulett1@...> wrote: ? [Edited Message Follows] Called a lot of CQ on 14.0577. RBN hearing me 7-14 dB s/n all over US, but no takers. Finally got QSO with K8RXB in MI @ 1000 miles @ 1W into a 40M FW loop. And with 40M Rockmite 7039, got W Tx 300 miles from me using 80M doublet up 50'? Curt KB5JO -- Chuck, W5USJ

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