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By John AE5X, August 10, 2012

Neat stuff from Nick N3WG:

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Additionally, Nick has several apps for both Droid and Mac at Pignology.net.

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By John AE5X, May 6, 2012

With Steve WG0AT’s kind permission, a few appetite-whetting photos from Steve of his KX3 assembly. Thanks Steve!

Morning John …hard to tear my self away from this wonderful lil rig this morning! Went to bed at 1AM and up at 5AM with headphones and a cup of joe already worked several stns! Too much FUN! Going out later for goat/KX3 hike and operate portable maybe catch u on the bands! 73 – Steve

The photos step through the assembly process, at the end of which, you’re treated to a video of Steve’s first QSO with fellow blogger Dave AA7EE.

I’m really trying to not buy one of these things but you guys are making it tough!

Some of the photos below are clickable for a larger image (and then click again depending on browser): Continue reading 'KX3 assembly photos de WG0AT'»

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By John AE5X, April 4, 2012

A rhetorical question and one I’m asking trying to justify my own purchase…

For the past several weeks, I’ve returned (temporarily, thankfully) to my post-Navy roots:

-totally QRP and with a makeshift antenna in a place that would rather I not have one at all.

I’m only on 17 and 20 meters and not hearing any of the DX I see spotted on the cluster. Most QSO’s fade in and out and are not on QRP freqs  – my antenna is doing all it can to hear 100-watt stations. Expecting it to reliably copy QRP’ers is unrealistic. Continue reading 'How will you use your KX3?'»

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By John AE5X, April 3, 2012

If you roam around the internet, you’ll see it’s easy to find negative comments about Index’s old QRP+ and relatively difficult to do so for the KX1.

Experienced QRPers know that each radio represents a different genre within the field of QRP; others, however, may have a tendency to lump all sub-100 watt radios together and judge them comparitively, regardless of the validity of that comparison.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate and do exactly that – look at the pros and cons of each of these radios in the application that QRP now finds its most common usage in my circumstances: business travel. Continue reading 'Index QRP+ and Elecraft KX1 as travel radios'»

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By John AE5X, February 5, 2012

NOTE: Far more detail on these two rigs is available on Thomas K4SWL’s website here.

With Ten Tec now selling a YouKits version of Elecraft’s KX1 I thought I’d take a look at how the two compare in basic features.

Numbers don’t tell all but they’re a good place to start: Continue reading 'Elecraft KX1 vs. Ten Tec HB1B'»

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By John AE5X, December 22, 2011

Every few days, a person on either the Elecraft or QRP-L reflector asks how to unsubscribe due to being overwhelmed with email filling their inbox.

Or someone requests information that had been recently posted or discussed on one of the lists.

When I first subscribed to QRP-L years ago, I made the same mistake – subscribing without disabling emails. Many readers of this list are aware of the two options they have for receiving posts from other list members: individually, as many separate emails or via a daily digest.

There’s a third option Continue reading 'A better way to read the QRP-L and Elecraft reflectors'»