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Here's a video that I just posted on YouTube. In it I demonstate setting up my QRP station, show some of the features of my K1 and then...

Today I finally made it away for some more QRP operating. This time it was to Great River Bluffs State Park (See http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/...

I have a working 815 transmitter. Unfortunately I had to "glue" a capacitor on to the side of the chassis to do it. Key to gettin...

After a couple of days of on and off rain with cool weather here in SE Minnesota, today was sunny and temperature about 70 ... great evening...

I've powered my new transmitter up on 40 meters. For use during this test phase I built an adapter to allow the use of B&W 5 p...

I aquired another radio last week. This one I "won" through ebay. The pictures posted on ebay showed a fairly ughly set with thr...

L1 of my transmitter calls for ten turns on a 1" coil form spaced over 7/8". I had the form and the wire I needed. Winding spaced ...

We spent the weekend in Decorah, IA and on Saturday and Sunday I had some spare time for hamming. I used my K1 with a 67' endfed wire u...

I've finally committed to a layout and mounted the major parts. From left to right along the front is the xtal (with B directly above it...

After "playing checkers" for several days tweaking the layout, I'm ready to drill. I usually mark major component locations an...