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Welcome to the Club / Re: Getting back into the hobby
« Last post by ve2th on Today at 00:27:47 »
Hello Lewis,

Wow, from Feb, 2022, to march 20, 2026, never late to come back, the fun is to hear, of you. Yes life got in the way for me too Hi!! Hi!!

I'm active with Parks on the air,  SKCC , and some others.. so I hope to meet you soon, on bands, as me & my xyl have great fun, and we discovered many nice parks.

Last year I got my 1000 kilo AWARD Activator june 27, 2025, for for submitted proof of one thousand QSOs from the same parks on the air entity. PARK CA-0907 Plage Jacques-Cartier regional Park.

I operate with a Yaesu FT-818ND, 5 watts, with outbacker Perth Plus , or some Ham Stick vertical antennas.

I hope to meet you this year around the QRP frequencies, on 20 meters and other bands.

Have a nice summer,

72/73 Mike VE2TH

The QRP'er for 62 years now...



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Welcome to the Club / Re: Getting back into the hobby
« Last post by VE3QJ on March 20, 2026, 00:51:22 UTC »
Thank Mike,
sorry for the long delay. Life got in the way.
I picked up a 1/4 wave vertical for trips out such as pota etc. I might play around with some hamsticks that I might try. Maybe a hamstick dipole A magnetic loop is a seasonal antenna, because, who wants to go out in the winter to tune them.
73 Mike
de Lewis VE3QJ
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Welcome to the Club / Re: Welcome to the Club
« Last post by Kb6dez on February 24, 2026, 17:50:25 UTC »
Eugene

I joined the QRP club many years ago as WN6DMZ and KB6DEZ and just recently WB6DMX

Are any of my old memberships in the history logs?  I used to receive regular correspondence fromthe club.

Do you know anyone that can diagnose and repair my HW8?
Thank you
Ron
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Welcome to the Club / HW-8
« Last post by Kb6dez on February 24, 2026, 03:16:56 UTC »
I built my first HW-8 when Heathkit started selling them in about 1975.  Then I sold it.  Then I bought another one on Ebay.  It does not receive or transmit and I don't know how to repair it.

This weekend was my 88th birthday and a friend gave an old HW-8.  Today I turned it on and made 3 POTA contacts.  Amazing!

Does the QRP club offer any activities like POTA?
Does anyone repair the HW-8?

Thank you
Ron

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Sked Board / Here is the official website for the upcoming March 19-31, 2026 CYØS DXpedition.
« Last post by ve2th on February 22, 2026, 21:52:28 UTC »
Hello everybody,

Do not miss MARCH 19-31 , 2026 CY0S DXpedition.

Please visit the main www.CYØS.COM site, and also in QRZ.COM

Put it on your calendar.-

72/73 Mike VE2TH & VE2AWJ

  The year 2026, It is my 63 years of ham radio QRP !!!

  As a gift I got my old first callsign which was avalaible: VE2AWJ

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Welcome to the Club / Welcome to the Club
« Last post by KA5NLY on September 13, 2025, 04:59:15 UTC »
I am EuGene Smith, KA5NLY, from the Ozarks of North Arkansas.  Licensed in 1982 and have never operated with more than 5 watts (and never will).  Fixed station antennas are a 250 foot circumference horizontal loop, a Hustler 4BTX, Butternutand, and Sigma verticals, and a Comet 4 element 6 meter yagi.  I used to have a Mini-Quad, but a storm crushed it when a tree fell on it (it wasn't too nice to my roof either)

For portable, POTA, & SOTA i have a Buddipole and varous wire antenas (dipole, G5RV, EFLW)

I work CW and SSB using HW-8, HW-9, Ten Tec Argonauts 509 & 515, XEIGU G1M, and gob of little Chinese, MFJ, and other small pocket size transceivers.

I have one operating position at my house and another at my man cave.

So one does not think I suffer from hardening of the categories, I also collect stamps, fountain pens, and wrist watches.  Some folks say I suffer from insanity, but actually I enjoy every minute of it!!

EuGene Smith, KA5NLY/QRP  (Kilo Alpha Five Not Loud Yet)
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Transceivers / Re: Another new QRP Transceiver from Elecraft
« Last post by ve2th on August 23, 2025, 18:50:05 UTC »
Good afternoon all,

Another new transceiver from ELECRAFT, the KH1,

A must to see and read the instruction manual...

The price is  :-\

Good reading.. and give your comments...

72 Mike VE2TH

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Antennas / 1/4 wave vertical for 40
« Last post by YD1BOR / G0LHF on August 02, 2025, 14:59:49 UTC »
I have just bought a 12 meter long fishing pole, an item that will be ideal to hold up a 1/4 wave vertical for 40.
I have yet to work out  the dimensions for the radiating element and ground wires, but playing with it might well be interesting.

Has anyone tried an aerial of that sort, and how did you do?
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Welcome to the Club / Yet another hello
« Last post by YD1BOR / G0LHF on July 31, 2025, 13:32:44 UTC »
Hi, all.
My name is Edward (Paul, really, but I prefer my middle name).
I started ham life as a CB good buddy in the late 70s, move on to G6MNR, then G0LHF (still live), and now YD1BOR.
The Indonesian call give me limited use of HF (10 and 40 when reality kicks in).
For QRP, I have a Yaesu 818, and a Chinese uSDR - the former is lovely, but the latter is less than fantastic.
I also have a Yeasu 600 that manages roughly 100 watts.

I live in a house that has no access to the roof, but I can get a bracket up that should hold something. I like to play with aerial ideas.
I've just bought a 12 meter long fishing pole - I see a 1/4 wave vertical for 7 mhz as a strong possibility.

My QRP days started a lot of years ago with a great Yeasu FT-70g with an FC-70 tuner. I saw one of the latter for sale at a reasonable price, so I strached it before anyone else had the chance. If you've ever used one, you'll know why.
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Banners and Info / Re: The Golden Members and the Skipper
« Last post by G2DXU on August 06, 2024, 02:29:51 UTC »
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