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After three weeks, 5300 miles and 12 western states Beth and I are back in Rochester. I took along my K1 in a lunch bag so that I'd...

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...

Sunday afternoon, July 5, I got over to Frontenac State Park for some picnic table QRP. The picnic area there sits at the edge of a 400...

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...

Today I participated in the annual QRP FYBO (Freeze Your B___ Off) contes t. See http://www.azscqrpions.org . It happened that we are in...

The second half of the AWA Linc Cundall OT CW Contest was this past weekend. Between Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon I added 4 contac...

The first half of the AWA Linc Cundall OT CW Contest ran Wednesday evening through Thursday late afternoon. This coming Saturday is the sec...

When using my vintage transmitters I've missed not having a keyer. Many older tube transmitters are cathode keyed. The voltage across...