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An Early Morning Spin On 49M With The Sproutie | Dave Richards AA7EE
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April 3, 2015. An Early Morning Spin On 49M With The Sproutie. Filed under: Amateur Radio. 8212; AA7EE @ 5:04 pm. And thinking that I might as well make use of the fact that I was up at 5:30am, while night-time and grey-line propagation on 49M would be in full swing. Coffee at the ready, I decided to perform a band scan on 49M with The Sproutie. The idea was to log every station I could hear on the band. The excellent site short-wave.info. Needless to say, I heard a lot of Chinese. Regen doesn’t cu...
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Servicing A National PW-D Micrometer Dial and PW Gear Drive | Dave Richards AA7EE
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February 9, 2015. Servicing A National PW-D Micrometer Dial and PW Gear Drive. Filed under: Amateur Radio. 8212; AA7EE @ 11:06 pm. Tags: National HRO dial. National PW Gear Drive. National PW-D Micrometer Dial. Western Historic Radio Museum. A couple of weeks ago, I posted about some reduction drives I had acquired,. There is a great deal of information on servicing these gear boxes, and the National micrometer dial, on this page. Here’s the gear housing, elliptic bearing hub, and worm gear with th...
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February 2016 – AA4XX QRP
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. CQWW160M CW Contest from KnightLite’s Excalibur QRP Antenna Site. CQWW160M CW Contest from KnightLite’s Excalibur QRP Antenna Site. February 8, 2016. Dick (N4HAY/ZS6RSH) and I decided to enter the CQWW160M CW Contest as a. Meaning two or more operators share a single transmitter and callsign. As there is no QRP multi-op category for this contest, we would be competing with stations running KW amplifiers. Read More Read More. February 6, 2016. During the recent ...
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A QRP Odyssey to Portsmouth Island – AA4XX QRP
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. A QRP Odyssey to Portsmouth Island. A QRP Odyssey to Portsmouth Island. December 31, 2015. Throughout my life, I have often felt the need to seek nature’s solitude. When I was a young lad, I would walk a couple miles to my best friend’s house, and then we would continue walking to one of several farm ponds on the outskirts of our small town to do some fishing or to explore the surrounding woods. In the photo below, my sea kayak was loaded with camping gear, foo...
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ARS Flight of the Bumblebees 2015 – AA4XX QRP
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. ARS Flight of the Bumblebees 2015. ARS Flight of the Bumblebees 2015. August 14, 2015. For the FOBB 2015, my Bumblebee site was on a small island in the middle of the Intracoastal Waterway near Topsail Island, NC. It was fun to watch all kind of boats pass by throughout the afternoon. I operated from a little boat, which provided shade and a comfortable seat, as well as transportation. The Padlette paddles were ty wrapped to the steering wheel. Most 20M station...
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. An NCQP QRP Expedition to Eastern North Carolina. An NCQP QRP Expedition to Eastern North Carolina. March 4, 2017. One of my favorite Ham Radio related events is the annual North Carolina QSO Party, which takes place the last Sunday in February. The goal of this contest is for ham radio operators within the state of NC to activate as many of the 100 counties as possible. Most NC participants operate from home, but others take their stations to. Upon reaching my...
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ARRL 160M CW Contest 2015 from Lea Hutaff Island – AA4XX QRP
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. ARRL 160M CW Contest 2015 from Lea Hutaff Island. ARRL 160M CW Contest 2015 from Lea Hutaff Island. December 20, 2015. For the past three years, I have operated the ARRL 160M CW Contest from Lea Hutaff Island, located off the SE coast of North Carolina. This year, my campsite was located in the dunes, quite close to the beach. I removed the top two sections from my 60′ fiberglass Spiderbeam pole and attached three 53.5′ top hat wires at the 48&#...The skyhook i...
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NJQRP Skeeter Hunt 2016 – AA4XX QRP
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. NJQRP Skeeter Hunt 2016. NJQRP Skeeter Hunt 2016. September 8, 2016. The NJQRP Skeeter Hunt is always a fun event, with this year being no exception. This year’s Skeeter Hunt encouraged portable. Stations to set up in one of our many national parks, as well as back yards, fields, lakes, or any place that a prospective skeeter might find enticing. Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church. See if you can decipher the line above the date. At low tide, you can...
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The National HRO NPW Dial and Gear Drive | Dave Richards AA7EE
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April 7, 2015. The National HRO NPW Dial and Gear Drive. Filed under: Amateur Radio. 8212; AA7EE @ 4:25 am. National HRO gear box. National HRO gear drive. National HRO NPW Drive. As well as selling their gear drives with built-in variable capacitors, National also sold the stand-alone PW and NPW drives which could, with the use of a shaft coupler, be used to drive any variable capacitor the builder desired. The PW. Drive, in which the drive shaft ran P. The grease was old and although the gears did turn...
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Excalibur II Site Improvements – Drywall – AA4XX QRP
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Sharing the fun of low power amateur radio. Excalibur II Site Improvements – Drywall. Excalibur II Site Improvements – Drywall. July 11, 2016. Since it has been several months since the last report on the rebuilding of the KnightLite’s QRP operating site WQ4RP, I wanted to share some of the things the KnightLites have been up to. In April, Marty W4MY spearheaded the installation of drywall for the walls and ceiling of the shack. Our. W4MPS (L) and W4MY (R) cutting drywall. Master Craftsman Marty, W4MY.
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