Also, its worth noting that beer drinking is not a requirement at the BWB events. Eddie and his wife pop in from time to time and they don’t drink. The camaraderie is worth the trip.
73/Chris/AC5CM Typos brought to you by iPhone > On Jan 6, 2026, at 13:55, s.c.flowers via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan, > We can discuss at Brews with BVARC tonight. It’ll be at 18:30 at No Label > brewery in Katy. It’s over by the silos. > > 73, > Stephen (W2WF) > > >> On Jan 6, 2026, at 10:26, Daniel Poirot via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> TL;DR >> I am reaching out to anyone interested in SDR, EFHWs, battery operation, and >> maybe even PoTA. >> >> >> Howdy all, >> >> First, many thanks to the member who corrected my on-air etiquette regarding >> how I was breaking into a QSO to comment. I will do better! ;-) >> >> Happy New Year to all. Did anyone get a shiny, new SDR rig for the new year? >> I have an 8-band, uSDX+. It's yet another clone of the (tr)uSDX. I have >> found about 11 or 12 clones of this design - white buttons, black buttons, >> orange and blue buttons, grey buttons, HT, red corners, and orange top - >> lots of them. >> >> The ones I have found use the uSDXOpen code, hosted on GitHub. With the >> Arduino IDE, a very low-cost Arduino UNO, and a few jumper wires, I have >> upgraded my firmware from 1.02 to 4.00d. Easy to do and a big improvement. >> >> I have this paired with a small LiFePO4 battery and a QRPGuys 'No Tune' >> end-fed half-wave. Using a linked stretch of electric fence wire (thanks, >> Big John), I have made contacts on 20 meters and 40 meters. Crazy, but fun! >> >> I am reaching out to anyone interested in SDR, EFHWs, battery operation, and >> maybe even PoTA. I am happy to advise on any of these topics to the best of >> my ability. >> >> 73's to all >> Dan KJ5IZK >> <586501813_1173393241558933_3326928977878799888_n.jpg> >> ________________________________________________ >> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club >> >> BVARC mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >> Publicly available archives are available here: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
