June 2004
Saturday June 19, 2004
 

It's summertime in the Four States. Today we enjoyed a pleasant day for our June get-together with the temperature around 75 degrees. Four QRP'ers met at Barney's Kitchen in Seneca, Missouri for another world-famous Barney lunch and socializing.

Attendance was light today, mainly because next weekend is the ARRL Field Day and many of our members area are choosing to attend that. Of course, today's primary topic of discussion was the upcoming Field Day.

For "show and tell", Tom, N2UHC brought his brand new home built transmitter and his "Tin Ear" 40 meter receiver. Along with a T/R switch, this makes a complete QRPp station. Tom has more info about his projects on his N2UHC web site.

Dave, WØCH displayed a "Tin Ear" receiver, however his was constructed for the 80 meter band. The receiver tuning was redesigned to use a varactor instead of the PTO.

Jay, KØETC brought his new Small Wonder SW20+ transceiver that he built into a custom case. Jay did an outstanding job on the project as it works just a nice as it looks!

The pictures below are "clickable" to view a larger image file. 

A home constructed 40 meter station built by by Tom N2UHC. The Tin Ear receiver is on the left, the antenna T/R switch in the middle and the transmitter is on the right.

An internal view of N2UHC's scratch built 40 meter transmitter. Power output is 100 milliwatts.

Two Tin Ear receivers. WØCH's 80 meter version is on the left and N2UHC's 40 meter receiver on the right.

Here is a view of WØCH's 80 meter Tin Ear showing the toroid VFO inductor and varactor tuning system. A couple of Manhattan pads are used to mount the extra parts.

Jay, KØETC's nice looking SW20+ project dressed up in a custom case.

Here's Jay KØETC, Tom N2UHC and Jim KE5BEI finishing up lunch. The show and tell projects are in the foreground.

At the city park, Jay is operating 20 CW with his SW20+ into a vertical coaxial antenna.

KE5BEI, N2UHC and KØETC enjoying an afternoon in the park.