Jason Milldrum on May 26th, 2010

Since FDIM 2010 is in the history books, it is my pleasure to finally publicly release my entry into the FDIM 2010 QRP Challenge: The Clackamas 40 Meter Transceiver. The rig is a VXO-tuned superhet that operates around 7.030 MHz. The heart of the design is the BF998 dual-gate MOSFET (which was popularized by W7ZOI [...]

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Jason Milldrum on May 14th, 2010

I wanted to post a quick update from my phone. Due to an unforseen level of busyness, I haven't been able to even sit at my laptop for a few minutes to update the blog. I have been taking notes, so once I am able to I will write about my Dayton experience.

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Jason Milldrum on May 13th, 2010

I'm going to keep this one short and sweet. Wednesday was travel day and while the actual travel was uneventful, I had a pretty rough time. Dave W8NF, Carl WS7L, and I got to the airport on time (up at 0300, not fun), our flight took off on time, we made our connecting flight just [...]

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Jason Milldrum on May 11th, 2010

Today got off to an inauspicious start. When I got home from work this morning, I started gathering together my clothes and travel items. I came out of the guest bedroom (soon to be the baby's room) and whacked three toes on my right foot right into the trim around the door. As you might [...]

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Jason Milldrum on May 5th, 2010

I recently received a very interesting e-mail from Dave W8NF regarding a very spiffy looking labeling technique that he successfully used for his latest LogiKlipper prototype (BTW, LogiKlipper is going to kick the butt of the RF clipper manufactured by that other company in the South...). Here's the details on how he did it: I [...]

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Jason Milldrum on May 4th, 2010

Family commitments and issues have kept me from doing much radio related stuff lately, which is why I haven't blogged much recently. When I have had some spare time, I've been using it to complete the documentation for my FDIM 2010 QRP Challenge entry, which I finally finished and submitted last night. After attending a [...]

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