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You can just feel the homebrew enthusiasm in this video. You can almost smell the solder smoke. We love it when people do videos showing their new rigs spread out on the workbench with individual boards held together by bits of solder. It is even better when, as in this video, the boards are atop hand-drawn schematic and parts-placement diagrams with much NOODLING in evidence.
FB Mikele! And I agree with you about the stations who call "CQ DX-only." I used to hear that a lot when I was in Europe, and I hear it hear quite a bit too. I always think it is a contradiction in terms. There were times when I was sitting there with a new rig, anxious to get a signal report from a strong station, and he wouldn't come back to me because of the Continent that I was sitting in! Pity. His loss. He might have been interested to hear about the contraption I was testing. It could have been fun, but no, he preferred to work VK3 or Puerto Rico for the 1000th time.
Indeed, three cheers for the legendary Pete Juliano!
I was telling Pete that thousands of years from now, archeologists will be puzzled when they find, in many remote corners of the world, strange homebrew electronic devices with the symbol "N6QW" emblazoned on them. Who, they will ask, was the cult leader N6QW, and how did he get his followers to build these devices?
Thanks to the work of Mikele 9A3XZ, Croatia will surely be a major center for research into the N6QW cult. Check out Mikele's video. Stick around for the full 6 minutes and you will see the many N6QW rigs that Mikele has built. FB Mikele! Keep up the good work!
Mikele's rig is a real "International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards" kind of project. The Belthorn design is out of England. N6QW has added a lot of California influence. The Nokia screen adds a bit of Finland. And of course Mikele's excellent construction makes this a profoundly Croatian rig.
We love seeing rigs in their "out in the open " phase. Thanks Mikele!
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