[HomeBrew] Field Day Projects

[Steven Weber]

>The first is a 40m QRP radio using the  famous Pixie 2 as the base,

Good luck with that on field day! 

My field day project is a little more complicated. I'm making a
microcontroller based dupe checker and logger. Uses a PC AT keyboard, atmel
MEGA8 MPU, AT25128 eeprom and 2X16 character LCD. 

It keeps time, has eight programmable messages, checks for dupes, logs the
contact and has paddle input. Will store 512 contacts. If your in CQ mode,
all you have to do is type in thier call and then the exchange, and it
pretty much does everything else automaticlly. I think I even have all the
bugs out of the program now. All I need to do now is figure out how to down
load the log out of it. 

Why not just use a laptop? This thing uses a whole lot less power and was
more fun <G> Originally, I was going to use a small PDA style keyboard, but
found I couldn't type fast enough on it. Too bad, as everything fit into a
3x5 index card case and ran on 4-AAA batteries. It made a nice package.
Having to go to the full sized keyboard makes it a little clunky now, but
is more practical. 
72,
Steve, KD1JV
"Melt Solder"
White Mountains of New Hampshire
http://www.qsl.net/kd1jv/