[Elecraft] Homebrew

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

That's a great job, Tom. Don't apologize for picking up circuits here and
there. Over the years much professional engineering and amateur homebrewing
has been done exactly that way. Years ago the ARRL Handbook was designed for
just such homebrewing, with circuit-by-circuit examples of each stage one
might copy to use in their own designs. Both Hams and professional engineers
used it as an important reference.  

It's always a huge pleasure to run across a homebrew rig, whether it's
someone running an old QRO vacuum tube creation or a fellow pounding away
with his milliwatt solids state creation. For that reason I always tune up
or down a couple of kHz after calling CQ in case there's an xtal-controlled
reply nearby. To me, they're more exciting to work than rare DX. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

...Since I'm not yet able to design my own gear from start to
finish, I have stolen ideas from the world of QRP - a world Elecraft is very
familiar with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njo4Z_8cdWs

I made another video where the above transmitter is turned into an SSB
transceiver.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_uBqbEV0-w
Tom, ak2b