Vanguard!

Wow, Vanguard even looks like a QRPp satellite. 

I suspected that something was up:  I noticed that Mike Rainey, AA1TJ has recently been crossing pond with a QRPp Germanium rig...  Then Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith clued me in: The next period of  Vanguard QRPp Activity Days begins tomorrow.  "Club 72" has a nice write up, and a nice collection of pictures of the Vanguard rigs that have been built around the world:

http://www.club72.su/vanguard.html

Go Germanium!  Go Vanguard!

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