Welcome to the QRP ARCI club reflector!
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As you sign up, post a message with your name and callsign in the title and include a bio in the message including what you do mainly with QRP, even a link to your QRZ.COM page?
Include your ARCI number.? Remember your number is good for life.? Annual dues cover your receipt of the club magazine ... QRP Quarterly.? See club website qrparci.org for details?
Don't remember your number??
Post especially news and questions about QRP ARCI.
Again, welcome fellow QRPers!
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I know, I should not be typing while at FDIM and taking advantage of meeting more of my fellow QRPers :)
Thanks for letting my in. My QRP ARCI number is 8386.
Technically, I've been licensed since 1994, but shortly after I got my Tech+ license, my job had different plans for me, and 5WPM CW was just too hard... So about two years ago, I thought I would see if my old Yaesu still works after being boxed up for a long time and sure enough, it came right on. So I took that, and the no-code license upgrade as a sign to get back into radio. I am now finally learning CW the right way, and have had my first dozen or so CW contacts. I am still slow to copy, but it's getting better with every QSO.?
I enjoy building stuff. On the operating side, I've gotten into POTA and I am slowly activating all parks around my QTH.?
73, Karl Heinz - K5KHK
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Hi, my name is Scott, call NE1RD, and my QRP ARCI number 11588. Four Days In May this year is one of the best!?
— Scott (NE1RD) B. Scott Andersen
“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.” — Samuel Adams, Boston Gazette, 1768
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A new chat has been created:
WOW..? This one has some great speakers.? Jim W4QO
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FDIM talks were great.? Good to see so many friends and make some new.
72 de Mark/NX1K
QRP ARCI Member Number 7062
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Chameleon Antenna Question
Is anyone in Dayton has experience with the Chameleon Hybrid Portable HF Antenna? ?How do you test it to see if it works? ?Would love to see pictures of your antenna set up and maybe even chat with you.
Mark Gibson (N4MQU)
919.614.6822
www.n4mqu.com
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Setting up my solder table tonight
Guys,
I'm about to head back over to the hotel and set up my table. If you gave anything you need help with- surface mount or through hole- please stop by the table. As always it's free for the folks at FDIM.
Chris
KD4PBJ
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My first FDIM and so far it has been awesome
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Glad you are having fun. wasn't this evening like a small hamfest in itself?
jim.. w4qo
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Thanks Jim, I have enjoyed this and learned quite a bit. A couple of years ago i started teaching physics and engineering at a small private college in Kansas. I am on a mission to find ways to engage my engineering students in applying the theory they are learning. Today alone has been worth the trip. I have met a number of great folks. Hopefully, I will be able to put faces with calls and conversations.
Thank you again. Stan WA6AAI
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:40 PM Jim Stafford W4QO < qrp@...> wrote: Glad you are having fun. wasn't this evening like a small hamfest in itself?
jim.. w4qo
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I hope to be able to join this group. My favorite part of ham radio is QRP and I had once been active in this group when on a different media platform.
Thanks.
Steve - AA5TB
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My call is AE8AT, Steve, member number 16702. Welcome to Dayton to everyone in town for FDIM or Hamvention.? Sorry for this morning's boomer of a thunderstorm.? It woke me around 4am local.
My QRP interest is having something small I can carry backpacking.? I also love the homebrew and the QRP community seems to be where that happens.? No current project of my own.
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Glad to have your expertise on this reflector.? EFHW are of incredible interest these days.?
Jim W4QO
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I ‘m Mike, W9QS. ? Arci number 9521.
I’m sure this will be a great reflector. ? I am 99%QRP and also 99% CW.
hope to put out some Illinois POTA sites this summer.
First licensed in 1956 as KN6TBP.
72, Mike
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Stan,? yesterday at a forum at Hamvention, one presenter who works with the radio club at Cornell U said students do not relish talking on the radio,? But they jump at the chance to solder up things, build kits, troubleshoot a circuit, etc? Isn't this also fun for a lot of QRPers?? We tested the Elenco AM-780 kit this past year at a school and it was a big success.? The kit is easy but good practice soldering and works better than say a typical crystal radio.? It can also be used by more advanced students to analyze/troubleshoot with a scope.? Go on ebay to buy in bulk.? i think we paid about $12 apiece in bulk of 10,?
jim w4qo
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Hi gang. Hope those of you that are attending FDIM are having a great time. As Jimmy Buffet would say: "The weather is here, wish you were beautiful". Seriously, wish I could have
attended but we are in the midst of a "gathering of the clan" with our 4 kids, their kids and in three instances, three great grand kids arriving soon. Got lots to do here at the Bent Dipole Ranch.
The 160m horizontal loop that we put up 4 weeks ago came down when a 100+ foot red oak tree came down across one leg of it and suddenly I was out of the loop business. Now I have
enough firewood to last about 25 years!
I look forward to participating on this list on a regular basis. We are approaching several contests in the month of June. First is the VHF contest in the middle of the month and
rounding out the last full weekend of June is Field Day. FD is the time to grab your QRP gear and wander into the bush for a weekend of ham radio fun. I will be participating with the Barrow County ARC and will be running a QRP station the entire contest using
CW. Hope to see many of you on the air.
Vy
73 es gud DX!
Rich
Arland??
K7SZ ? WPE7BYR
Bent
Dipole Ranch, Dacula, GA
Cogito
ergo CQ (I think therefore, I HAM)
Radio/electronics?archaeologist
Author: The ARRL's Low Power Communications
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FDIM Banquet doors open at 7:00
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New members - give us a BIO
And if you were at Dayton/Xenia, tell us the one thing you learned or found that was new to you or amazing to you or just fun!? Put the link to your QRZ page if you wish.? Send email to [email protected] and put your callsign in the title.Jim/W4QO
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Thank You! For a Great First FDIM Experience
I'd like to say "Thank you!" to everybody who made this FDIM a great one for me. Kathy, Norm, Preston and everybody else did a wonderful job. I cannot compare this to any previous FDIM events, but I can compare it to a lot of other events I've participated in, and I can say that at least from my point of view, things went very smooth.?
The one thing I learned the hard way is to not just get off the elevator with the person you are talking to without checking which floor you are on. I ended up twice on the wrong floor. The 2nd time I at least realized it right away, the first time I almost made it down the hallway.?
I will be back!?
73, Karl Heinz - K5KHK
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Per Jim Stafford's email:
Thanks to all who put on FDIM this last weekend.? It was truly excellent in every respect, in my estimation.? Especially the speakers on Thursday, who were, to a person, amazing, as were their written materials. ? I also enjoyed club night and looking at what the builders had designed and made.? Every time I go to FDIM, I feel like my knowledge about QRP takes a significant leap.?
My bio is on QRZ, but I will say I got back into ham radio in 2015, when I relearned morse code through the tutelage of my instructors in CWOps CWA.? I usually run a KX2 with LNR 20/30/40 End Fedz when doing QRP, but also love my 817 and Index Labs QRP+.? Sometimes run my Alex Loop and sometimes my Buddipole.? I am also NCS some days on the Sunrise Net, which meets on 7.123 Mc at 1300Z every day, where I run one of my bugs, which I love to operate.? Please come QNI with us!? Our website is ??
Thanks again to Preston, Norm and the others who made this happen.
72/73, Jim Ewing N4TMM
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NE1RD B. Scott Andersen
Mark Gibson (N4MQU)
Steve Yates - AA5TB
Norm
Jim N4TMM