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QCX-mini On The Back Of The Bench

Posted on January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 by KC8JC

QCX-mini? Didn’t You Just Finish A QMX+? Sometimes, things get shuffled around and end up on the back burner for a really, really long time. Embarassingly long. Back in January of 2022, I was embarking on my CW journey. I was also looking for a kit to build. The QRP Labs QCX-mini looked like exactly…

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My QMX+ Adventure

Posted on December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 by KC8JC

Brought To You By… This post is about building a QRP Labs QMX+ transceiver. No, Hans G0UPL didn’t sponsor this. Someone else made it possible. That someone else is Brandon Sanderson aka BrandoSando aka B-Money. He released a book about a week ago and at that point I became a Stormlight Archive Widow™. My beautiful…

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QRP Guys SWR/Power Meter and Dummy Load

Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by KC8JC

One of the first ham radio specific kits that I built was a dummy load from QRP Guys. I keep it on my desk. It’s two PCBs with a shedload of resistors sandwiched between. It is simple. It is brutally effective. And the other day, it was invisible. I have no idea how it wound…

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It’s Been Quiet…

Posted on May 11, 2022 by KC8JC

It’s been a while since my last activation. It doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on around here, but it does mean that radio time in the field has been limited. It’s been for good reasons like picking up our new camper. There will be plenty of pictures of that in a future installment as…

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The Hardrock 50 Amplifier Kit

Posted on December 20, 2021 by KC8JC

Portable operation has been a lot of fun for me since the IC-705 showed up in my shack. It’s a really great QRP rig and I have had a wonderful time getting out and making contacts. One of the things that I’ve found while messing around at parks or on vacation is that it would…

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