[HBQRP] FW: [QRP-L] New NorCal Kit Announcement

[Piatt, Darwin]

Me..!!

Darwin (Dar) Piatt  W9HZC

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[mailto:hbqrp-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Darrel Swenson
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:48 PM
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Subject: [HBQRP] FW: [QRP-L] New NorCal Kit Announcement

Hi Gang...

Just a quick survey...  Is anyone interested in building these kits at
our
March 11th meeting?

Darrel... K0AWB

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:qrp-l-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Doug Hendricks
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:27 AM
To: qrp-l at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [QRP-L] New NorCal Kit Announcement


The NorCal QRP Club is pleased to announce their latest kit, the NorCal
SMT
Dummy Load kit.  This kit contains everything you need to build a QRP
Dummy
Load, using surface mount parts.  There are several surface mount kits
available today, but there are some builders out there who are not sure
that
they are capable of dealing with surface mount parts.  They have
probably
held off buying some of these new kits because of their fears.  Now they
have the opportunity to experience surface mount construction at a very
cheap price.  When Tony Parks developed the SoftRock Receiver, he came
up
with the idea of doing a dummy load kit using 44 2.2K 1206 sized surface
mount resistors to build a dummy load.  He did a few kits, but announced
that he was discontinuing it last fall.  NorCal contacted him and asked
if
we could take the kit over and redesign it just a little and offer it as
a
kit from NorCal.  He very graciously agreed, and we would like to thank
him
for all of his help with the project.


Bob Okas, W3CD, was given the task of designing a dummy load, but also
added
a couple of features.  One, he added a detector circuit so that you
could
use it with a VOM meter to measure power.  Second, he added a third
output
pin so that you could use an RF Probe such as the North Texas QRP Club's
Accuprobe kit, for even more accurate measurements.  Bob layed out the
board, we tested it and now you see it.   The cost of the kit is only
$7.50
including postage in the US, $10 DX.  The kit includes a double sided,
plated through, silkscreened, soldermasked board that meets NorCal
quality
standards, 50 2.2K 1206 resistors, a .01uF 1206 capacitor, a 1N5711W SMT
diode, and a through hole pc mount BNC connector.  All you have to
provide
is the labor and solder.  This is the cheapest kit that we have ever
offered
and think that it will be quite popular.  It is fun to build, and it
does
improve your soldering skills immensely.  The manual is up on the NorCal
page under NorCal Kits at www.norcalqrp.org.  We invite you to download
it a
nd take a look.  You may use paypal to order, or send a check to the
address
on the website.  The kits are in stock and ready to ship immediately.
No
waiting on this one.


This is an excellent first time kit for any builder.  It is easy to do,
and
you get a quality dummy load when you are finished.  Enjoy, Doug, KI6DS

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