Juno QSL

Looks like the qrp signal helped a bit...

C5 LoTW... apologies.

Oh... I uploaded the log files to Clublog (no idea why I ever bother as qrp ops never tend to use it)... should have uploaded LoTW at same time as use DXlabs s/w for QSLing seems never happened oops! I'll have to reset the shack laptop to DX operating mode so that it still thinks it is in C5 not UK. Or find the TSQL s/w and sign the ADI file and upload it manually.... this will get done when I work out which laptop has the TSQL cert for C5 on it.

Sometimes getting to that island radio site can be fun...

Was going through old photos and found this one.... the radio site was on top of a sea stack off the coast in Scotland.....first you had to climb up to the top!

In 2005 I did a trip to the Scilly Isles with Clive (M5CHH, G8BOU (SK 2013)). This was packing the car  before we set off to the ferry.

Photo when got back all smiles... was a fun qrp trip....

Bit more Nacton

The surface mount R and C are almost all there now, and the variable C

I work off a copy of the schematic and as each component is added it gets crossed off.... simple.

Got the surface mount semiconductors to add then the canned inductors and crystal.

Then it is the PA and then boxing up... now back to the K2.... during my lunch break.

G4DDK Nacton 70MHz Transverter

Had this on the to do list...for those that wanted to known about the soldering involved I just started a Nacton build (whilst building up a K2 with all the trimmings for someone else, just finished all the torroid windings so needed a break).

 

 I used a fine tipped soldering iron, 0.3mm 60/40 solder (so so much easier than 0.7mm stuff) and a digital camera and the zoom function to check on solder joints.

All the Surface mount components go on one side of the board the TOKO like cans, pots and crystal go on the other side.

I have a 155N1602 in the cupboard so will use that instead of the 1601 for the enclosure (mine has plastic ends), I will make up copper inserts.

I have a number of PCB SMA connectors and pig tails from a previous ebay purchase (I am sure the postie Emma gets lots of exercise bringing all the bits to M1KTA QTH)  after I switched the RF connectors to them on some USB stick RTL SDR's for local rally (they went in seconds!).

Yes as per photo and asked I use a large sheet of FR4 copper clad board on the workbench (it is earthed) and build on that. The FR4 I picked up a while back at a local PCB fabrication place, they had some 4foot by 2 foot sheets where the copper was not up to tollerance (for them), so I used it as a bench top, cut loads into 1 foot squares and shared with local club.

 

G4DDK Nacton 70MHz transverter,

http://g4ddk.com/4m.pdf

 Power regulators

10uF caps

 Mixer

Just a few photos right now. Will add notes later.

All soldering by hand/eye... using 0.3mm cored 60/40 solder.

EAQRP

Hi all... had bit of fun on Saturday operating in the EAQRP contest... pretty much sat on 14,058.500 KHz sending cq and had regular EA contacts both 5W and  less than 5W.

KX3 5W into inverted V dipole at 6m AGL.


Just before was on 40m

G4MQM

M1KTA

7030.0

[LoTW] Calling Cq

1059z 19 Apr

During contest

TF3Y	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	8 dB	19 wpm	1844z 19 Apr
RZ3DVP	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	19 wpm	1844z 19 Apr
RN4WA	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	7 dB	20 wpm	1843z 19 Apr
WZ7I	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	20 wpm	1843z 19 Apr
SK3W	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	19 wpm	1843z 19 Apr
LA6TPA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	11 dB	16 wpm	1842z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	13 dB	16 wpm	1840z 19 Apr
S50ARX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	18 dB	15 wpm	1840z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	18 dB	21 wpm	1840z 19 Apr
US0KW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	4 dB	23 wpm	1839z 19 Apr
EA4TX	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	15 dB	23 wpm	1836z 19 Apr
SM7SJR	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	23 wpm	1836z 19 Apr
SE0X	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	7 dB	22 wpm	1835z 19 Apr
US0KW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	14 wpm	1834z 19 Apr
TF3Y	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	10 dB	14 wpm	1833z 19 Apr
S55HHH	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	1 dB	19 wpm	1832z 19 Apr
HA6PX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	10 dB	19 wpm	1831z 19 Apr
HA1VHF	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	12 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
LA6TPA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	18 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	19 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
SK2AT	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14032.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
SK3W	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	19 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
RN4WA	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	4 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
S50ARX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	20 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	15 dB	18 wpm	1830z 19 Apr
WZ7I	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	6 dB	18 wpm	1828z 19 Apr
RZ3DVP	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	10 dB	19 wpm	1827z 19 Apr
SE0X	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	12 dB	18 wpm	1825z 19 Apr
EA4TX	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	18 dB	19 wpm	1824z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	13 dB	18 wpm	1824z 19 Apr
SM7SJR	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	19 dB	18 wpm	1823z 19 Apr
TF3Y	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	16 dB	18 wpm	1823z 19 Apr
SK3W	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	13 dB	18 wpm	1820z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	16 dB	18 wpm	1820z 19 Apr
S50ARX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	18 dB	18 wpm	1820z 19 Apr
LA6TPA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	10 dB	18 wpm	1820z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	24 dB	19 wpm	1820z 19 Apr
W8WWV	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	2 dB	18 wpm	1819z 19 Apr
WZ7I	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	8 dB	19 wpm	1817z 19 Apr
RZ3DVP	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	2 dB	18 wpm	1817z 19 Apr
DL9GTB	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	16 dB	18 wpm	1816z 19 Apr
NZ1U	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	18 wpm	1815z 19 Apr
SE0X	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	18 wpm	1815z 19 Apr
US0KW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1812z 19 Apr
TF3Y	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1811z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14032.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1810z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1810z 19 Apr
SK3W	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	16 dB	18 wpm	1810z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	15 dB	18 wpm	1810z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	21 dB	19 wpm	1810z 19 Apr
S50ARX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	19 wpm	1810z 19 Apr
RN4WA	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	4 dB	19 wpm	1809z 19 Apr
LA6TPA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	11 dB	18 wpm	1809z 19 Apr
ES5PC	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	6 dB	19 wpm	1808z 19 Apr
SM7SJR	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	19 wpm	1807z 19 Apr
DL9GTB	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	19 wpm	1807z 19 Apr
WZ7I	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	6 dB	19 wpm	1806z 19 Apr
SK2AT	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	19 wpm	1806z 19 Apr
S55HHH	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	2 dB	18 wpm	1805z 19 Apr
W8WWV	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	18 wpm	1805z 19 Apr
SE0X	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	18 wpm	1804z 19 Apr
TF3Y	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1801z 19 Apr
US0KW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	7 dB	18 wpm	1801z 19 Apr
RZ3DVP	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	4 dB	18 wpm	1800z 19 Apr
HA1VHF	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	13 dB	18 wpm	1800z 19 Apr
SM6FMB	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	11 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14032.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	21 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
LA6TPA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
S50ARX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
SK3W	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	12 dB	18 wpm	1759z 19 Apr
S52AW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	4 dB	18 wpm	1758z 19 Apr
US0KW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	8 dB	18 wpm	1758z 19 Apr
SE0X	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	18 wpm	1754z 19 Apr
SM7SJR	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	18 wpm	1750z 19 Apr
SM6FMB	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	13 dB	18 wpm	1749z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	12 dB	18 wpm	1749z 19 Apr
DK0TE	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	15 dB	18 wpm	1749z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	18 dB	18 wpm	1748z 19 Apr
SK3W	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	18 wpm	1748z 19 Apr
S50ARX	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	15 dB	18 wpm	1748z 19 Apr
S52AW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	2 dB	19 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
US0KW	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
S55HHH	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	3 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
TF3Y	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	6 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
DL9GTB	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	21 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
VE2WU	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	5 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	10 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
LA6TPA	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	6 dB	19 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
RN4WA	M1KTA	14058.6	CW CQ [LoTW]	4 dB	18 wpm	1746z 19 Apr
LA5EKA	M1KTA	14032.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	7 dB	18 wpm	1744z 19 Apr
ES5PC	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	9 dB	18 wpm	1744z 19 Apr
SE0X	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	6 dB	18 wpm	1743z 19 Apr
IK3STG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	14 dB	18 wpm	1739z 19 Apr
SM6FMB	M1KTA	14058.7	CW CQ [LoTW]	15 dB	18 wpm	1739z 19 Apr
DK0TE	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	16 dB	18 wpm	1739z 19 Apr
OH6BG	M1KTA	14058.5	CW CQ [LoTW]	17 dB	18 wpm	1737z 19 Apr

Plenty of EA and non EA stations worked.