On opposite coasts and with rigs at opposite ends of the technology spectrum, Pete and I have been putting new homebrew rigs on the air. I'm working on a QRPp transceiver using 10 transistors. Pete is working on an SDR rig that must use, what?, thousands or millions of transistors.
We've both been getting nice feedback, often from SolderSmoke podcast listeners. Above you can see my 8 July notes on a contact with K3QP. I was running about 1/2 watt, crystal control, from the Fish Soup 7 combo rig.
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In an earlier post I mentioned Pete's success in working coast-to-coast on 40 SSB with his homebrew SDR RADIG. Turns out that someone in St. Louis heard the contact:
Hi Pete
Heard your QSO to Virginia last evening. Conditions were rough but could hear good enough. I’m located west of St Louis and was outside portable with KX2 and wires tossed in a couple trees. Tried to tail end but of course my signal was not good for you in California.
I really am amazed at the work you put into your projects, websites, and podcast. Can’t thank you enough. Please keep it up.
I worked at McAir in St Louis and spent many hours in the MDEC building St Charles. That was in the late 80s.
Steve
K0SAM
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Finally, earlier in July I had a contact with K1PUG. Someone north of the border heard us:
On Sunday, July 7, 2019, 01:17:47 PM EDT, Dave wrote:
I heard your QSO with Hank K1PUG at my cottage in Canada (FN15ac) this morning. I wondered why you were so faint (since I had been getting good reports with 5W into your area) but when I read this morning’s entry in SolderSmoke, and saw you were 750mW, all became clear.
73,
Dave KM6CPF / VA3NIA
Bill on CW? There's something fishy about that...
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