[TowerTalk] QST Articles [Was: Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?]

[kd4e]

 > Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) wrote:
>> I'd wager if a transmitter or receiver article was published
>> today, very few people would be interested.
> 
> Finding the parts to build a state-of-the-art transmitter or receiver 
> would be the challenge, and buying them in small quantities (once found) 
> would probably make the project outrageously expensive.

I am looking at two projects, both of which I may submit to
QST.

The first is a "low" plate voltage (45-90VDC) mini-tube QRP
DSB transceiver (perhaps only a transmitter) using 3A5's and
the like.

The second is a modified 10.7MHz FM portable signal generator
to be used on 30M as a simple digital transmitter (psk31,
pskMail, etc.).

I am not an engineer, which means you can get what I am willing
to call a "final project" off my bench without prying my
fingers off it protesting that it needs "just one more adjustment"!

I have no idea if anyone but me will find either of interest!

Since neither is a tower, antenna, or tuner I suppose further
discussion belongs on another list!

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