New England QRP Club : The Excitement is Building....

This is it, guys and gals. We bought a house at 7726 Jim Wells Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78413, where I can do QRP with the full size antennas. My 40M Mizuho 250mW rig will now get the workout it deserves. Good flat topography as far as the eye can see in all directions. Initially I will focus 144.20 efforts to the east with 200mW.

This ought to be fun; nothing at all like the one-legged hooker on Sheridan Road in North Chicago outside Mary's Tailors I saw on occasion. The Mizuho rig only operates from 7.00 to 7.03 MHz. The two meter rig is a Mizuho MX-2 with Xtals for 144.15 through 144.25.

This may be the last thing y'all hear outta me, but maybe not. It's real nice to be back in Rhode Island, the state with no street signs. The overall effect could be perfected by not allowing numbers on buildings, or signage of any kind. It really makes a sailor feel welcome. But I digress.

The amateur radio community has made me welcome, and for that I am grateful. I like the good bunch of ham folks around here.

That we are all QRP'ers should make you a little skeptical about me. But it's alright. My operating philosophy has less to do with pedantics and more to do with Annie Oakley and the Treaty of Greenville.

Hi! This is one of those things I imagine everybody knows, but I never heard about it before it stubbed my toe.

When copying a weak CW signal on a noisy band, adjust the NOTCH to a point just above the desired signal. Doing so seems to make the desired signal pop out in the audio, while reducing close-in noise. Please try it.