Category: QRP

  • Waiting list update

    On Halloween Steve Weber KD1JV has announced to the AT-Sprint Yahoogroup he’s considering planning to take orders online for the ATS-4B at 11:11:11 AM, EDT on the 11th November, 2011. Clearly a time and date not to be forgotten. Shipping would follow close behind then. One exciting aspect of this latest ATS-4B version is the planned integrated…

  • ATS-4 b due late September / early October

    UPDATE: As of mid October the new availability date for the ATS-4B is November 2011. Also Steven Weber is developing a daughter board to enable the ATS-4B to decode PSK and CW – which has a January 2012 delivery date. This board can’t be added to the earlier ATS-4A.  Since late June, Steven Weber’s site at http://kd1jv.qrpradio.com has displayed a…

  • Ultraportable Elecraft KX3

    UPDATE: Steve G4GXL’s 10 minute YouTube video of Wayne N6KR’s quick overview of the new KX3 is available from http://qrparci.org. Also there are early photos on Twitpic here – courtesy of Jeff Davis KE9V including this one: Under the tantalising subject line “Something *really* new at Dayton from Elecraft” and while en route to Dayton – Elecraft’s Wayne Burdick N6KR announced…

  • QRP at Bamarang

    Last weekend I had a great time playing radio. Along with half a dozen other families and all our kids we went to spend the Easter weekend at the “mud brick mansion” at Bamarang on the Shoalhaven River, a few km west of Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales. Courtesy of the…

  • Hearing EME with QRP gear & homebrew antenna

    Congratulations to Julian G4ILO! He managed to hear EME signals with his FT-817 and a homebrew antenna. Read all about it here and hear the signals. Also interesting side stories about RFI sources and soundcards & recording audio off-air.

  • K3WWP’s site

    I’ve only just discovered K3WWP’s CW and QRP site via NW7US’ http://cw.hfradio.org/. Amazed at the continuous record of publishing online since 1996 and the simple but powerful commitment to have at least one CW QRP QSO every day (a little like the necessary resolution of any half serious blogger!). What a model! And what a wealth of good…