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[John J. McDonough]

Check out:

http://epic.mcmaster.ca/~elmer101/

for an in-depth look at the Small Wonder Labs SW40+.  There are also
instructions for homebrewing this radio at

http://www.qsl.net/k7qo/

The amount of information on the web about the SW+ series is probably the
radio's biggest selling point.  It's also very inexpensive.  But this is a
pretty basic radio.  The others menioned, with the exception of the
RockMite, are all more elaborate (and more expensive).  The RockMite is a
cool little radio, but it's rockbound, which can make things a bit
frustrating, especially if it's your only radio.

The Elecraft radios have a very active and vocal following.  These tend to
be a little higher-end than the Small Wonder Labs radios.  While SWL has
focused on the simple, single-band QRP rigs, Elecraft has been more like a
QRP alternative to the Yaecomwood's.   The price points are pretty
dramatically different ... Dave Benson tends to focus on rigs "around $100",
while the Wayne/Eric price tends to be $300-1000.  But then, Dave's rigs are
all single banders ... Elecrafts are all multi-band, digital readout, etc.

You might want to look through the archives of the Elecraft reflector on
qth, and the QRP-L reflector on http://qrp.lehigh.edu/lists/qrp-l/

Another good resource is the ARCI links page at
http://www.qrparci.org/links.html

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