CQ CQ CQ de W0VLZ

This is a blog about my ham radio experiences including vintage homebrew, QRP operating and the National Radio company.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Winter Contest Season

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With cooler weather my operating has moved indoors. Here in Minnesota it's a little cold for QRP in the park. Now I'm on the air usi...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

QRP in the Park .... 2017

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I had a nice time at the park today ... sat in the shade, sipped on my Pepsi, and worked MD, ME and NY on 20 meter CW using my KX3 running a...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Novice Rig Roundup

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The Novice Rig Roundup is an nine day operating event "where radio amateurs contact stations using vintage ham radio equipment from the...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

AWA Linc Cundall Memorial CW Contest Recap

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I've wrapped up another LC ...   ... certainly not a barn burning score but I did get two of my vintage stations on the air.  ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

AWA LC CW Contest

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Right now we are in the middle of the AWA Linc Cundall Memorial CW Contest. See http://www.antiquewireless.org/awa-linc-cundall-memorial-cw-...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

ARRL Straight Key Night

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This afternoon I got on the air for the ARRL Straight Key Night (SKN). The receiver this year was my improved Simple Superhet . Along with...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

AWA BK 1929 QSO Party Recap

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The AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party wrapped up a week ago. Unfortunately I had a fairly small window of opportunity here for operating. I...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party

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Last weekend and this coming weekend was the AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party. For this event only transmitters of 1929 (or earlier) design/t...
Friday, December 9, 2016

More on my 20 meter Endfed Zepp

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I've always been a little worried about feed line loss in my portable antenna /  20 meter Endfed Zepp. TV twin lead does have more lo...
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Friday, November 25, 2016

Thanksgiving Day Power Supply

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After Thanksgiving Dinner this year I took the opportunity to make progress on the power supply for my 1939 transmitter. I completed t...
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Niel - W0VLZ
I was licensed as WN6ULH in 1966. My first shortwave receiver was a WWII vintage variant of a National NC100A. As a novice I used a military surplus BC-342 reciever and an Eico 720 transmitter. Then, when I left for college, I took a National NCX 200 transceiver mounted under the dashboard of my 1965 Mustang. My stations since then since then have included a Drake TR4cw transceiver and a Drake B line. Today my shack includes equipment dating from the early 30s through current gear operating CW, SSB and PSK31. I've built many pieces of my own gear including tube and solid state transmitters and receivers. My current interests include QRP operating, vintage home brew and the National Radio Company. Read more about these topics on my web site at https://web.archive.org/web/20220604005204/https://www.prismnet.com/~nielw/wa5vlz.htm or emaill me at nwiegand0129@gmail.com.
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