Andrew, You need to read that again! Although I did not see what would happen if someone did send something without VAT being paid. A surcharge for the recipient like happens now if it is caught? 73

I find that large Dixie cups make for much higher fidelity audio. Jim W4JED

Hi as Hans is in Turkey, he is out the EU in any case, I think most items under £135, can come in unhindered, check out

Got my QCX+ 40M kit yesterday and managed to get T1 done and soldered on the board. I don't remember the first one I did 3 years ago being this hard but I guess at my age 3 years makes a big

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QSL Oli, What neat history and heritage. I can understand where your “knack” gene came from. Dave K8WPE David J. Wilcox’s iPad

Those ultra-mini transformers on BNC connector are very cute, but have one major drawback IMO. Because they are attached directly to the TRX, therefore they are at the ground level when oparating.

Hi all Not a lot of activity on 40m but I did make three QSOs ()no QCX): YU7AOP Bogdan PA3GRM Tymen with his K3, 400W and Dipole UR4HD Igor I called it a night after 45 minutes. 73 Hans

I haven't tried them, but these are available and lightweight. The owner is a pretty stand-up guy as well! https://checkout.tn07.com/ -- Jason Pirok W4UNX

Hi All I made it onto 40m for the 1900 session using my QCX 40 driving my Juma PA100-D amp and running about 50 watts into an efhw. There seemed to be a pile-up around 7024 to 7032 but I couldn't

Allison, This is quite interesting. Did you build this for portable? Any chance of a quick sketch? I'd like to try it. Michael

I made few portable mini dipole and w3dzz for portable use Best Regards, Stein-Roar Brobakken post@... LB3RE K3RAG Skype: lb3re.rag

Interesting and added effort. Consider this you have a QCX and battery plus key aaand all the usual stuff in you pack for a day maybe over night in the field, maybe a mountain. What does you antenna

There are at least 3 or more vendors making that style of antenna these days. Generally for field use 10 is like 6M right now, line of sight use mostly. The big two is 40 and 20, and that is fairly

Sorry, Paul, its already been sold, Carl, N6TVN.

I thought about it, but with this one I went with simplicity and 0dB insertion loss. I have 500m of SOTAbeams antenna wire waiting to be picked up at my Amazon Hub, so I'm sure this won't be my last

SOTAbeams and QRPGuys sells trap kits. Price varies depending on how much power you want them to handle. I thought about this, but I went the simple route and did a 20/30/40 linked EFHW. 0dB

Just in case anyone tries to look for the PAR EF40/20/10 antenna, they were sold to LNR Precision in 2010, who in turn sold them to Vibroplex in 2019. So you can now find them at

If you still have it, I'll take it.

Thanks so much Hans! But there is no hurry, so please don't spend too much time on it, and certainly not before those QCX Mini's are out of the door ... hi. Luc ON7DQ