Glen, This is not an easy kit, per Dave Casler on YouTube. He just did an unboxing and is going to dedicate several shows detailing building it. He has build a couple before. The online manual is Heath Kit quality, step by step. However, your note and his comments kind of suggest it might be better to not be in the low serial numbers for this product. Not sure why there are so many changes unless this is a radical shift from their previous designs. Would you advise waiting a few months to let the design settle in? With regards construction, would you advise the full size model, which is the same radio, but larger? 73 Mark N5PRD
> On Dec 29, 2020, at 12:01 PM, John D via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 13:47:11 -0600 >> From: Mark Brantana <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: Glen Jenkins <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, >> BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO >> CLUB <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [BVARC] QRP-Labs QCX-mini >> Message-ID: <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Glen >> Whew! I know you will be a good resource. I am a little nervous about the >> number of components to solder. Thank you for the note. Time for me to get >> this thing ordered. >> Mark >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Dec 27, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Glen Jenkins via BVARC <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> ? >>> Hi, >>> I received my QCX-mini for 20meters on Thursday Dec 24 and have yet to >>> start building it. >>> I strongly suggest that anyone starting this kit subscribe to the qrp-labs >>> groups.io <http://groups.io/> site for hourly (almost) updates on the in & >>> outs of building and troubleshooting it. >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> group at Groups.io >>> <http://groups.io/> >>> There is one important add to the kit to install a new 10uf 25V capacitor >>> in parallel to C4 >>> Glen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________________________ >>> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club >>> >>> BVARC mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >>> <http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org>
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