[CQ] A rig at 2169?

[Michael Shiloh]

i have been playing with SDR and think this would be a great ongoing 
hacker project for noisebridge.

i bought a softrock kit i have yet to build

m

Josh Myer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com 
> <mailto:jof at thejof.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Excerpts from Bill Paul's message of Sun Nov 29 00:02:17 -0800 2009:
>      > I have a reasonable HF setup at my house (I was able to sneak a
>     multi-band
>      > trapped dipole antenna onto the roof and run coax down two floors
>     to my
>      > apartment) but not really anyone to talk to. I have a tri-band
>     HT, but I sort
>      > of miss operating on HF. Anyone else have any interest? It'd be
>     nice to be
>      > able to work 40m or 80m once in a while.
> 
>     I just brought and setup my Elecraft K2 QRP rig at 2169.
> 
>     I ran an awful 1/2-wave longwire above the sprinklers inside. I can hear
>     some regional CW QSO's.
> 
> 
> Awesome!
> 
> I might have to swing by to see this; is it still up?
> 
> It'd be great to get a rig up full-time at 2169; does anyone have 
> recommendations for something smallish/affordable?  QRP (read: really 
> low power, tuna-can sorts of transceivers) seems sort of like the way to 
> go, entirely from a cost perspective, and it sounds like we can run SSB 
> on it with some tweaking.
> 
> What's a good kit for that, to sort of recapitulate a previous thread?
> -- 
> Josh Myer 650.248.3796
> josh at joshisanerd.com <mailto:josh at joshisanerd.com>
> 
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