[HBQRP] Things at the last meeting.

[Arnie Grubbs]

Hi Group,


Well, it was a good turn out at the meeting.   Only Joe was building something today, but it was interesting.
He was working on a KD1JV designed kit from QRPKITS.com called the Survivor.  A 75 meter SSB/CW
rig.   Joe also helped me install and get running SDR# on my WIN8 laptop.  Now I can run my TV dongle
or FunCube dongle to receive just about anything except TV from about 50 MHz to 2GHz.

Now all I have to do is figure out all the settings in the program to make the best use of it!  
Would really be cool to use it with a swept signal source as a tracking generator to be able tune
filters and duplexers ect..   I wonder if someone would make a kit for this!  haa haa..

Joe was interested in a bit of software that I was running on my win8 laptop called "classic shell".
It gets rid of the look of win8 and returns you to a win7/XP style desktop with most of the features of the
older (and in my opinion BETTER) user interface.  

Heres a link to the web page for the software...  

http://www.classicshell.net/