[HBQRP] Meeting turn out..

[w9hzc at cox.net]

Yes Arnie, It was a fun time today. Nice to see so many familiar faces and a couple of new ones too.
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If there is a break in the weather between now and the next scheduled group meeting, I will attempt to get to Ashland and get the Coax run from outside into the meeting room so we will have it going. I might post an e-mail here when I go in case anyone else wants to come along. Hint, Hint ! !.
--- OK as for the discussion about the Hi-Mite. here is what I have in my notes.
if you hold the board with components facing you and the 14 pin IC at the top the board, you should see on the bottom where R13 is is not installed. That is correct, no R13. right above the blank spot for R13 is a Brown, Black, Black resistor. That is correct.
Now to the right of the blank spot for R13 there should be a Brown Black Orange resistor installed. above this resistor is a blank spot barked D1. That is correct - no diode there.
If you correct these and you still have an issue, e-mail me and I will send a large photo for you to look at.
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New subject : Who ever it was who had the capacitive key, can you supply the required info to the group so a couple of us can play with matching the key and the Pico-Keyer-Plus and see how it works.
Thanks
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OK then, get your rigs ready so we can get back to regular Lark In The park  activities.  Would be fun do do one every time we leave the meeting place.
-- good night all and good DX!  (QRP of course..)
W9HZC - Dar


---- Arnie Grubbs <ka0ncr at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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> Just wanted to say that we had a great turn out today.  Several new people showed up,and I think a good time was had by all!
> Not a lot of building went on today, but several discussions on projects and plans for things to come later in the year were going on. Joe was busy building a kit.   I would have liked to do some building, but...I was running low on sleep, and almost decided not to go.  We will see how smart this decision to go was at 4 AM Sunday morning when I leave work to head home!   
> I had a good time, got to see some interesting keys, kits, and some of the old "Ham Hum" news letters from the Aksarben ARC from way back in the 50's (I think)..  Also a few schematics from QST on a simple 2 watt TTL chip transmitter.  Talk was going on abouthow to make this into a simple TX/RX with the addition of a mixer of some kind (ne'602) and a few more parts.   Will be interesting to see what comes of this!
> KM0Y brought some RG-8x co-ax cable for the antenna, but due to cold temps, no one went up on the roof.  Maybe it will happen at the Febr or March meeting if wx agrees! 
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> Several of us from the HBQRP group talked about meeting at the next Omaha chapter of QCWA lunch/meeting... Several people have items for other members and that seems like a good place to meet and swap items and stories.   Its the 4th Thursday of the month at the Old Country Buffet in Omaha.
> 
> 73 -  Arnie KA0NCR
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Dar W9HZC