[HBQRP] Whets up at the next gathering?

[Steve Sellmeyer]

Yeeeee Haw, the meeting is on the 12th. Good ! I have that weekend open and 
plan to be there. Ordered the regen radio kit from Doug last week. Not sure 
if he is back yet from summer vacation but hope to have the kit there at the 
meeting if I get it in time. Also hope to bring along the young chap who is 
going to build it.

Been thinking of buying a CW filter kit. Can anyone recommend anything ?  I 
see Vectronics has one but appears they aren't available for awhile. 
Something to do with MFJ acquiring them causing a delay. Midnightscience (?) 
has one but it looks as if it is non adjustable. Ramsey also has an 
offering. Do you know of any others ???

Started a local 10 meter cw net last night just for the fun of it. We have a 
fairly new ham who wanted to get some cw practice. Just ran about 10 watts 
but was a lot of fun. My first time as being a cw net control. Ncs gets lots 
of sending practice I found out.

Rummaging thru some boxes on a rainy afternoon caused me to find an unbuilt 
Scorpion paddle kit from a few years ago. Also found a straight key kit 
unassembled among other things I'd forgotten about. Might say I'm rounding 
up things for winter building.

Back to the soldering iron..............Steve/WB0QQT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piatt, Darwin" <dpiatt at fnni.com>
To: "Arnie Grubbs" <ka0ncr at yahoo.com>; <hbqrp at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [HBQRP] Whets up at the next gathering?


> Hi Arnie,
> Great link, thanks. His prices seem to be very good.
> I might have to try one of these. (After I finish some other things.)
> :)
> I do not think we have anything special on the agenda for the 12th.
> I will be bringing more of the little Manhattan Audio Oscillators for
> anyone who wants one ($2.00) each. I can use one to do a little Short
> Manhattan techniques class if anyone is interested, I also read an
> interesting article on random wire antennas and will be happy to talk
> about what 'random' really means.
> I have two of the little RFToolKits from Kits and Parts.com and will
> discuss how to use them to make a little DC receiver with little effort.
> The modules sell for $8 or $9 each with all parts and nice circuit
> boards. you all might be interested.
> Also, I fixed Steve's Injector/Tracer and will bring that with me. If
> any of you have built it and it doesn't work, bring it and we will see
> if I can get it running for ya!
> On the agenda also are, discussions on building project at Branson,
> planning next years 1DIJ (1 Day In July) event and another
> Lark-in-the-Park before the end of the year.
> Some of our members are also in the Polar Bear group and that time of
> year is coming. I would like to challenge our polar Bears; let's try to
> field at least a couple Bears for each month's full moon this season.
> OK?
> I have also finished a prototype of the "my pixie III" and will bring it
> for show and tell.
> I have one of the DC40B's here at work with me and solder a little every
> lunch hour. Today I finished the last capacitor so will start winding
> some coils and installing some IC's and Transistors tomorrow. I've found
> that taking a quick lunch away from my desk then working on some tiny
> QRP gadget for the rest of the hour, provides me with some great escape
> time and after I put the soldering iron away, I'm ready for the
> afternoon. Try it.
> OK that is my update for now, hope to see you all next Saturday and
> bring lots of cool stuff.
> Remember, last time I forgot the two big boxes, this time I will
> remember and anything left in the boxes at going home time, goes in the
> dumpster.
>
> See ya and 73's
>
> Darwin (Dar) Piatt - W9HZC
> Midwest HomeBrewer's and QRP Group
> http://www.qsl.net/hbqrp
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hbqrp-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:hbqrp-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Arnie Grubbs
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:09 PM
> To: hbqrp at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [HBQRP] Whats up at the next gathering?
>
> Hi Group!
>
> Just thought I would drop an e-mail into the blender here and ask about
> what
>    was going on at the next gathering. I heard a little talk of another
>    "Lark in the Park" type of operation sometime yet this year.. is
> that
>    something in the near time line, or something for next spring?
>
>    If we are going to be building, what are are you all going to be
>    working on?  It'd be fun to hear what projects the members are
> working on.
>    73 - Arnie KA0NCR
>
> P.S.  IF I can get away from ripping up the basment for some much needed
> repairs, I hope to be workin on an N3ZI DDS VFO board that showed up in
> the mailbox a week or so ago.
>
> Check it out at  -  http://www.pongrance.com/dds.html
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
>
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