Hi Ken, I'm doing the same after second round of bs 170 change. I already have some minor damage on pads but still manageable. Thanks.

Yes that mirrors my learning process with braid exactly. Love/hate relationship with steel wool! I use it in an area as far away as possible from any electronics.

Mike, The trick to using solder wick is to dip it in flux first. Then it will draw the solder up into it. Without the flux first it has to get much hotter and won’t draw as much solder. Found it

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 04:19 AM, Mike Easterbrook wrote: Slightly off-topic - I always found desoldering wick difficult to use - then in a rare moment of brain involvement it occured to me that

Yeah dose the braid in liquid flux is a method i use and it can be very effective, and i believe you need to keep desolder braid out of direct sunlight, no problem here in Northern

Currently the firmware only supports 80, 40, 30 and 20m. It will also work on 60m. Later, when I have managed the more urgent priority of production of more QDXs to meet the existing demand, I will

Hi Dave Congratulations! Many thanks for pointing out my errors; I agree on all your points. I have corrected these now and published the updated manual on the QDX page see

Hello Glenn Thank you for the feedback and suggestions. I think it is important to remember that the Ultimate QRSS/WSPR transmitter was the first standalone WSPR kit in the world and was designed to

Thanks to Hans and the QRP Labs gang's hard work making the outstanding QCX+ transceiver that is used in my WA5DJJ All Band QRSS Grabber a Success. Keep it up. All the best for you and yours in

I originally thought Chip Quick a bit expensive but in desperation gave in and tried it. The trick is that you only need very small quantities of the alloy. I've used it with SMD, thru hole and

Thanks for the excellent tip about slow-solidifying chip removal material! I found Fast Chip and Chip Quick on Amazon. It's not cheap but it can definitely help remove modern pcb components without

In section 2.7 of the user manual it talks about setting up the CLK0 frequency and the band limits. I thought the appropriate band relay was chosen from the frequency in the frequency display.

Amazing. You sure have impressed and excited me and I apologize for my serious lapse in attention to all of this! Just because I can't launch a balloon doesn't preclude me from partipating so I will.

Thanks, Paul, for the comment. When I saw your circuit, I realized that I did over-engineer (as usual) my circuit. But there is a story for this. Initially I built a circuit that did extend the pulse

Hans, I'm easily confused, that section is a mix of Linux/Windows so I thought that just referred to Linux. Yes, I've suggested that many times on the WSJT-X group, why not this time? 73 Alan

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 05:56 PM, Glenn M0JFG wrote: Do not advertise the unit for 2m as its just not powerful enough - or do a 2m amp. Consider changing the bs170 to something better at higher

That's good to know. I kind of suspected the only hardware mod was the chocks. Compared to some mods I had to make over the decades that one is super simple. I got my Birthday present the other day.

Hans said: "I'm just an armchair (lab chair) balloonist designing the electronics and software. " NEVER do yourself down. :)) All respect to the achievements of Dave - and having had a quick and dirty

As I understand, v1_03 firmware requires no modifications to a revision 1 QDX. The manual for the revision 1 assembly covers the modifications tot he board that should be considered

Has anyone tried RTTY and/or FSQ with QDX? 73 SM6LKM