How's that for a beautiful homebrew rig! Prompted by our discussion of distinctive ham radio names, Harv, WA3EIB, sent us a very nice report on Yardley Beers, W0JF. The rig pictured is Yardley's "Jason" 20 meter QRP transceiver. Yardley had named the rig for his cousin. Harv met Yardley at a Colorado hamfest in 1993:
"On the table in front of Yardley was an Aluminum Box fashioned into a QRP radio named, “Jason”, 2 broken and worn head phones from the 1920’s, a few 1980’s QST and, several odd radio parts. My bulb of brilliance was not working that day. I said, “I don’t know what I’m looking for!" Somehow Yardley must have studied my eyes. I had locked my vision onto his very elaborate QRP rig. He paused for a few moments and said, “You into QRP?” By this time I felt more relaxed because he was now on my wavelength. I said, “Why yes, I would rather work with a homebrew radio that the ones with features that no one seems to know what they do!”
Harv bought the Jason (and everything else on Yardley's table) and established a lasting friendship with W0JF.
There is a nice article about OM Yardley's life in the November 2004 issue of QST.
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Re: Another vote for the LP100A
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I have an LP100. Amazing meter.
Also have a powermaster and a few Birds, including digital Birds.
The LP100 (and powermaster) are always in agreement with...
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Knobs and switches beat buttons and menus any day of the week.
ReplyDelete73.......Steve Smith WB6TNL
"Snort Rosin"
The blog mentions Yardley having a son named "Jason", when in fact "Jason" is a distand cousin, and NOT his son. Is it possible to get it changed to describe Jason as a cousin? Much appreciated.
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