Subj : OK Back to HAM RADIO Talk
To   : Warlord
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Thu Jun 30 2005 09:34 pm

  Re: OK Back to HAM RADIO Talk
  By: Warlord to Spaceman Spiff on Wed Jun 29 2005 01:49 am

 >   Re: OK Back to HAM RADIO Talk
 >   By: Spaceman Spiff to All on Wed Apr 13 2005 07:17 pm
 > 
 >  > A bout 10 of the local HAMs out here have decided to all buy these little
 >  > kit radios called the Rock Mite.
 >  >
 >  > The kits cost around $26 plus I think $12 for the  connector hardware. We
 >  > need to mout the kit into a case of some sort. many of the guys are optin
 >  > Altoids Mints tins.
 >  >
 >  > While that is anteresting idea, I am thinking of a more professional look
 >  > aluminum box.
 >  >
 >  > The rigs are available in several frequencies. We all agreed on the Novic
 >  > portion of 80 meters, as several of the HAMs have not achieved General ye
 >  > 40 meters Novice 7.100-7.150 can be brutal at night.
 >  >
 >  > Both my Ten Tec 544 and Kenwood TS520-SE can do CW, but I wanted to have 
 >  > fun of building this little QRP rig and see how many contacts I can make 
 >  > few miliwatts and a good wire antenna.
 >  >
 >  > The little Rig is rock bound to one frequency, though I have heard there 
 >  > mods for it available on the internet. Apparently it has a small followin
 >  > the HAM community and a YAHOO user group.
 >  >
 >  > At the very least there will 10 other guys in my area I could talk to, :)
 >  > brush up on my CW.
 >  >
 >  > It is a CW rig, though one of the guys said there are plans to hook up a
 >  > modulator MOD to it.
 >  >
 >  > Any kit builders out here?
 >  >
 >      Hi Mark :)
 > 
 >      Based intirely on your post I went to the SWR site and took a VERY CLOS
 > look at the Rock Mite kits. I am a member of the QRP-ARCI club and everyone
 > that I have talked to has said that this is a REALLY COOL rig!!!!!
 > 
 >      It's not for everyone, it's a QRP (under 5-watts) radio. It's more like
 > 1/2 watt amd it's a CODE ONLY radio. I just might send TK a 20 and 40 radio!
 > 
 >      OK. I have a few QRP radios here and some higher power stuff. Heath HW-
 > HW-8, Ten Tec Argonaut 509, a Yeasu FT-7, an Icom IC-703. I also have an
 > Icom-706MKIIG and an Icom 746-PRO. I live in a small 2-bedroom house on a
 > corner lot here in West Los Angeles. I am close to the Santa Monica airport 
 > I am limited to 40 feet high.Even at 35 feet on a few foggy nights I have se
 > the LAPD airships come close to an antenna or two. I am going to buy a 40 an
 > 20-meter Rock Mite just to play with. My Icom-703 is a fantastic radio for t
 > 325 dollars that I paid for it. But the Rock Nite will work pretty much
 > everything that I can work with any other radio here, depending on operator
 > skill. I was first licensed as WN6DJK in 1968 as a Novice class operator. I
 > don't feel that 1/2 watt into a good antenna is a big disavantage.
 > 
 >  There will always be contacts there....   Bob (Warlord)   KA6HGT/QRP
 > 
 > 
Cool. If you talk to TK, tell I said Hi.
Drop me you email, I promise not to SPAM you. :)
n3jnc(remove)@(remove)comcast.net
73 Mark

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