[HomeBrew] Any Builders?--W7 Land

[Steven Coles]

Loren,

In the USA's Pacific Northwest amateur radio homebrewing discussion has
partly moved to the Yahoo Groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emrfd/

for amateur radio operators building projects inspired by "Experimental
Methods in Radio Frequency Design," and books by Wes Hayward (W7ZOI),
Doug DeMaw (W1FB) SK, Rick Campbell (KK7B), and Boa Larekin (W7PUA).
And 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pQRP/

Which holds homebrewing discussions at Pie and Coffee (P&C) eyeball OSOs
held along the Highway Interstate 5 corridor, conducts QRP CW nets on 80
and 40 meters, plans Salmon Con (an amateur radio camp out) and
organizes car pools to swap meets. Activities start with a requesting
post. On average QRP CW nets meet every Monday to once per month
depending on propagation, P&Cs meet Tuesday evenings every 4 to 6 weeks,
and Salmon Con once per year. For instance a group member posts with a
topic like, “P&C at Rusty Tractor at 1900 hr on Tuesday 5/13/2007.” The
body explains where the Rusty Tractor is, what it's like, quality of the
pie and coffee, and a discussion topic (homebrew show & tell, February
amateur radio camp out at Westpost, et cetera). P&Cs usually need to
have space to push tables together for 12 to 16 OM.

Best regards,

Steven, KD7YTE