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By John Harper AE5X, August 11, 2010 7:46 pm

I finished putting together G0UPL’s QRSS beacon transmitter today and it seems to be working fine. Tomorrow I’ll have to dig up a 6V wall wart to power it but for now am using 4 AAA batteries just to make sure it’s putting out a signal with my callsign embedded.

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By John Harper AE5X, July 9, 2010 8:00 pm

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I met Hans Summers G0UPL a few years ago over coffee and pastries in Greenwich, CT. We’d had a QSO on 80 meters the previous evening and made arrangements to meet the next morning. All that is written about here.

A trip to Hans’ website is a must for any QRPer – the man is a designer/builder extraordinaire.

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