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Not to be disrespectful but looking at the soldering skills of whom ever put those together I would be ashamed to put my name on them. The other thing is they look like a pile of parts compared to a well built Henry or Heathkit amp. Just my opinion.

Am I missing something? When I think of QRP, I tend to think of using lower than normal power to talk to someone. Not listening to someone on a hand held radio. As I asked, am I missing something?

you might call Summit electronics they have the IC Summit Electronics 4702 : hard to find Electronics Parts

I went the opposite route I have always been a lover of tube radios primarily for the full deep warm sounds they produce. There is no comparison to a 45 year old tube radio and one of the all transistor or IC radios of today in the audio quality. I have a total of 3 Drake TR-4s complete...

A silent key that recently passed away happen to have two kits that were never built and his wife was nice enough to contact me and see if I wanted to purchase them. I admit I had never heard of the company that made them or perhaps as old as I am getting I had forgotten their name. The first...

The worst RFI case I have ever had was when I moved into the city after living on a 200 acre farm all of my life. The houses were like postage stamps and you could basically see in each others bedrooms unless the shades were drawn. At the time I was running a pair of Drakes T4X transmitter and...

The price range is said to be that of a K3

Perhaps the biggest and definitely one of the most expensive part of the whole process was finished today and that was digging the 4' x 4' x 4' whole that now holds the bottom 5' section of the 50' tower I am installing. The city I live in will not allow towers any higher than that, but after a...

I wonder how that thing would play on a cold Jan. night in Minnesota? Something tells me those exposed coils are made for you boys in the tropics. We run portable from our ice fishing houses and some days in January when the wind chill is -100 F and snow is butt deep to a tall Indian.

very nice setup, have you ever grabbed the wrong mic? I have more than once but the biggest mistake was trying to work a rare DX station and I set the mic down to grab a pencil and this was after trying to get a contact for about 3 hrs and then trying to answer him with the wrong microphone...

Thanks for the nice compliments, let me tell you it has taken me a number of years to get this nice gear and it all started with me running bootleg back in the glory days of CB. I am talking the late mid-60's and 70's. If your serious about getting a ham license just study for the test and...

What is missing is the Kenwood TS-440SAT and two complete Drake Lines. Drake TR-4, AC-4, MS-4, RV-4, MN-200 Tuner Drake T4X, R4C, AC-4, MS-4, MN-2000 Tuner As soon as the new desk is finished I will submit the new picture with all of the toys on display.

I am hosting all of the current Ham Radio Deluxe Beta 5 version on my web server, you can see what's available and download them from Index of /HRD

how much power are you running? Is your friend located in the direction of the opposite side of the building?

If I had that FTdx 9000D it would never see the light of day expect through a window. That is a very expensive FD radio to have lugged around and run the risk of dropping or having a generator drop a diode on.

I will give you the reports and my opinions after I have run it for a while. I worked a 10 meter opening last night and got great reports running 100 watts and then turned on the amp and was told I was broadcast quality. Love that for starters.

I heard about $3000 has anyone else heard that?

They are a good radio but like a number of radios with DSP it does not handle QRM all that well or in my opinion CW with QRM .

I guess what I was getting at is whether or not with the price of everything going through the roof, radios included are we running the chance of hampering the next generation of hams by making it a very expensive hobby. I have known for years that the winner in all the major contests on...