When I learned that Arizona QRP Club AZ ScQRPions released a new QRP Transceiver kit designed by N7VE (Dan Tayloe) I placed my order without even thinking twice. N7VE pushes the performance envelope of HF design to new levels (think the famous Tayloe Detector) and this little transceiver kit is no exception.

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Posted in QRP.
Tagged with 2010, Building QRP Things, Ft. Tuthill 80, Keeping the blue smoke in, nerd, Solder Smoke.
By WF7T
– 20 March 10
Excited by the possibility of adding to my DX worked totals on 80M during the ARRL DX CW contest a few week-ends ago, I hurriedly installed a new 80M ground plane (GP) antenna. Like the year before, I intended a single-band effort and the new GP was going to be my secret weapon.

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Posted in Antenna, Construction, Contesting, Model.
Tagged with 2010, Antenna, Contest, lil' pistol, Modeling.
By WF7T
– 7 March 10
I have been playing with HFTA software from the ARRL Antenna Book to determine the typical take-off angles needed to communicate to DX locales. First step was to develop my elevation profile, which I did based upon the instructions included using a program named MicroDEM. While not the most intuitive thing in the world, I did manage to follow the Antenna Book directions to obtain my DEM GIS file from a government location and to create exportable FAN files needed for HFTA. A FAN file is a terrain height profile in a particular direction from my QTH “tower” location.

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Posted in Antenna, Model.
Tagged with 2010, Antenna, lil' pistol, LoTW, Modeling, Triple Play.
By WF7T
– 6 March 10
Posted in Operating.
Tagged with eQSL, Operating, RTTY.
By WF7T
– 5 March 10
Call: WF7T
Operator(s): WF7T
Station: WF7T
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 156 50
40: 130 46
20: 66 23
15: 37 13
10: 0 0
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Total: 389 132 Total Score = 51,348
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Posted in Contesting, Operating.
Tagged with 2010, Contesting, lil' pistol, NAQP, Operating, RTTY, Yelling at old men.
By WF7T
– 28 February 10