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

Hello Folks,

Our next kitting gathering is one week from tomorrow. This is Wednesday, April 21st. Dave, NT1U will be purchasing food for the grill, so for the sake of accuracy, please let N1RX or NT1U know if you will be joining us. I hope to be there at or about 5:00. We should eat at about 6pm, and begin kitting by 7:00. We will be done by 9:00 or earlier, but if you can only join us for part of the time, that is fine.

We will be meeting in the farmhouse on the grounds of the MIT Haystack observatory. (same place as previous kitting parties). Directions can be found at:

http://www.haystack.mit.edu/site/directions.html

It's past time for an update on the New England QRP Club's NEScaf kit.

To date, NEQRP has sold over 800 of these. We have been out of stock for some time as the SCAF chip we were using, National's LMF100, was discontinued in DIP format. We made a preliminary decision to redesign the board to accept the SMT version of the chip.

During that process, one of the club's members pointed us to Linear Technology's LTC1060. It is a drop-in replacement for the LMF100. I obtained some samples, and have tried it in my NEScaf. It appears to offer performance comparable to the LMF100. Please don't ask me for hard numbers- I haven't done THAT kind of analysis. To my ears, it sounds comparable.

I don't chase DX (over several decades lived/worked/traveled in about 70 countries, more than I've ever QSO'd), but last night when I heard ON4AOI at 449/559 calling CQ DX and not getting answers, just for giggles I gave him a call and was thrilled when he quickly replied and gave my five Watts a 449. Oh, it all happened 'round about midnight on 1.810 mHz.

72,

Charles, W2SH

Dear folks,

Did somebody tried to improve the noise floor of the LM386 by adding the 10k resistor and 10n capacitor in series between pin 8 and the output pin as it was published in the Oklahoma QRP News Letter and then after by KA4UOS in Sprat nr.79 please?

I am interested in the results...

Thank You for responses in advance.

73 - Petr, OK1RP

Hi Gang:

I just registered on the site. Last time I saw most of you was during Lobstercon 2008. A lot has changed since then.

First off Pat (KB3MCT) and I moved from Wilkes-Barre, PA down to Dacula, GA in September of 2008. We still have our house in PA but are actively trying to sell it...preferably to a ham....since it still has the 55 ft tower and TH-7DX beam installed!!

We drove up to PA for Thanksgiving and to get the house ready for the market. Intending to stay only 5-10 days, we drove back on Christas Eve...got sidetracked by an ice storm on I-81 just north of the North Carolina line. Had to RON for a few hours and then it was back on the road. Got to our place in Dacula about 11PM on Christmas Day.

Hi all just a little link to my Blog and what I have been building and tinkering with.

http://radiowx.blogspot.com

Regards

Andy

Hi Gang.
We've had some serious trouble lately with the New England QRP Club Email reflector. As Dr. McCoy on Star Trek used to say, "He's dead, Jim." A -NEW- email list has been set up. Unfortunately, the old subscriber list is not available to us. This means you will have to re-subscribe. You can sign up for the new list serv at:

http://lists.newenglandqrp.org/listinfo.cgi/neqrp-newenglandqrp.org

Thanks to our webmaster Scott, N1AIA for getting us started again! -Bruce N1RX

Dennis was interviewed about neqrp and etc. in this podcast:

http://www.tedrandall.com/pages/podcasts.php