[CQ-Contest] QST or NCJ??

[Zack Widup]

I build all my own stuff for the microwave bands (well, actually 
everything 50 MHz and up is homebrew here).  Some of the equipment is 
cobbled together with pieces from various places.

The last microwave thing I built from QST was the W1VT 10 GHz 
transverter from 1993. I've built quite a few things from QEX since then 
though. Now I look to DUBUS for sources of construction projects like 
that. I doubt if QST is even going to publish construction projects 
for the bands above 24 GHz.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Charles Gallo wrote:

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> On 8/1/2008 Tom Osborne wrote:
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>> I don't know how many more articles on how to build a a 10,000mhz
>> transverter we need to read.  I've always wondered just how many people
>> build those things.  When reading the results of the UHF contests, it seems
>> as though most people are using commercial equipment, just like on HF.
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> I'm going to tell you another secret of the Magazine Business - they print what they get!
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> I know we've seen a whole bunch of articles on Microwave contesting/building microwave transceivers.  Have you noticed a lot of them are written by the same person?  A magazine CAN'T publish stuff that people don't write.  Write up an interesting contesting article, with photos, that is at the appropriate level for QST, and I'll bet folks it gets published.  If it's too complex, it'll end up over at NCJ
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> 73 de KG2V
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