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This week I finally finished up my early 30s CW station using a National FB7 and a homebrew 1934 transmitter . To-Dos that have been sl...

As summer wraps up here and turns into fall I start shifting from QRP-In-The-Park to Boat-Anchors-In-The-Basement and the winter contest/...

After Thanksgiving Dinner this year I took the opportunity to make progress on the power supply for my 1939 transmitter. I completed t...

Between 80 and 40 I managed twelve contacts using my National HRO Sr and TZ-20 transmitter with a low hung inverted L antenna. By contesti...

Plans change....after studying my collection of available transformers I found one rated at 560 (center tapped) at 270mA. This would work we...

With my KX3 n the shop because of a bad output transistor and cool weather returning to SE Minnesota I'm again in the basement looking a...

Remember the safety problem with my 1934 transmitter? Two of the phone plugs is for metering and the third is for the key. If, in the heat o...

Yesterday I set up my 1934 transmitter up with my NC101X and tried the pair out on 80 meters using my endfed 105' inverted "L"...

I've finished wiring my 1934 transmitter, powered it up and it works! With about 300 volts on the plates of the 46s and the 47 it loads...

I've gotten the components all mounted and the transmitter is ready for wiring. I learned a few things along the way... 30s vintage Sang...

After some quality table saw time, a bunch of drill press time and eight coats of paint (primer coat, satin black, three coats of wrinkle pa...

After collecting all of the parts comes "playing checkers" to find the best layout given the set of parts located. In this case I ...

Since the AWA Linc Cundall OT CW Contest in January I've been thinking about building another transmitter, this one falling in between m...