This afternoon for your reading pleasure bring you "7.1 - Release of the Magic smoke" A couple weeks ago went to do alignment and fuse on ps I used blew. Set all side. Yesterday thought about hooking

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Hello! I need a bit of advice on QCX repair. The initial state of QCX was correctly assembled and working device. After sudden unlucky switching power wires, I've got a single row of white blocks on t

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Having accidently released magic smoke from D2 (note that the AMS1117 voltage regulator is fine) I am looking for some replacement parts. If I assume everything on the 5V line is fried then I need: FS

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Hi, I've created a blog post on how to replace the QCX Mini AMS1117 regulator (I've used a regular 7805 but the same procedure also applies to the 78M05 in SOT223 or So-252). QCX Mini - Replacing the

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A couple of weeks ago I built my QDX V1 without incident or problems. Last week I spent the better part of the week testing it before putting it on the air and I was quite pleased with the results. I'

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Greetings all, In going to adjust the bias for the 40m 50W PA that I've built, I began with R5 turned all the way down as per the instructions. Putting the QXC+, which was outputting 4.24W into a QRP

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