[HBR] Projects

[Sandy and Kees Talen]

Yep .....too quiet. At least I've got two more individuals
in the Williamson County ARC building HBRs and we're 
now up to CD #48. Several homebrewers are scrounging for 
IF transformers at swapmeets like Belton, HamCom, etc.
Haven't see an single tube homebrew receiver lately and one 
homebrew 807 Tx (very nice construction). 

At the Saturday WCARC breakfast, one guy brought a solid 
state 40m HB rig built using only 2N2222s (I believe I saw 
it in an article somewhere). Really nice construction using 
that PC island technique where you get a punch from Harbor 
Freight or wherever, punch out 1/8" (or larger) disks and 
super glue them to the copper on another PC board. Gives
you an excellent ground plane and the wiring looks VERY
neat and straightforward. It also allows changing components
without a mess. One of the guys was going to try that technique 
on tube type circuits in a HB receiver. Someone usually brings
something for "show and tell". I usually bring a pile of parts
in the pickup and it's all free, what's left goes into the dumpster
at the dentist office across the street. Had cigar boxes of tube
sockets, porcelain insulators, switches, CB units, VOMs, cables, 
etc. ........most coming from estate cleanup. Attendance has been up. 

If you don't have a once a week ham radio breakfast/lunch in the 
area where you live, you ought to start one. It's great to get 
together and swap stories once a week, retired or not.  

Been keeping busy selling estate items for the club members.
If you know what a B&W 5100  AM/CW transmitter is ....one
SK had FOUR of them, Viking Valiant, Ranger II, and 12 bugs.

73  Kees K5BCQ