Oh boy I got to practice my German with this video. Northern German people pronounce their words more slowly. Easier to understand.
@randalltom9750Ай бұрын
I love my QRP Lab Transceivers... I own seven... A QCX Mini 20, 30 & 40, a Hi & Loband QDX, and a Lobander QMX... My QCX Minis have a K6ARK capacitive key mod, using acorn nuts. I love this mode... All units thrive on the TalentCell 12v 3aH battery, which mate perfectly with these radios. I use a PackTenna EFλ/2 cut to 40 meters, with an appropriate length of RG316 using the shield as the counterpoise. Thanks again Bjorn for your content. 72 de W7UDT
@d3w4yn32 ай бұрын
This is an encouraging video. I just received my kit, but I have not built it yet, but now you have given me good motivation to start!!!
@Porco_Utah3 ай бұрын
SW-3B's crystal lader filter work a better I think over phased method QCX use.
@dusanmirkovic35445 ай бұрын
Good video. Thank you. Can I use this device to practice typing on a lambric key?
@bill-20185 ай бұрын
Mine blew up and as I tired to repair it the copper track lifted. Good while it lasted on 5.262 MHz. My new one has a fault on the track, when the audio jack plug was inserted it shorted out the audio. I removed the socket to confirm it and destroyed the socket. The track needs cutting, check before soldering the socket in place. There seem to be a few manufacturers of Pixie's. G4GHB.
@Rex-G8UBJ8 ай бұрын
I used the PA circuit to build a QRP beacon and found the device sometimes died. I was observing some unwanted oscillation in the PA. Fixing a 30V zenner from collector to ground fixed the problem. 73
@davidwilcox911011 ай бұрын
I am watching this a year later than my first question. I still don’t know what you mean by “errors on the cable”. Did you have interference in your transceiver? RF feedback? I am still mystified. The SWR was very low and I saw nothing on the analyzer that would bother me. Please give me more information on what the errors were and how they caused you any trouble. I do agree that a common mode choke helps reduce any feedback into your rig and sometimes makes reception better but the “errors”? Also the Chinese knock off with the bad spelling is probably of poor quality (the toroid) so the results might be in error due to that. I have the USA made one from real The QRP Guys and it performs very well for what it is. Dave K8WPE since 1960
@doccpu711 ай бұрын
Be nice to see if a EFHW run vertically does as well as the short vertical. So many of these verts dont make it clear how the EFHW was run. Like any odd length wire or hor ant its going to have nulls. I have a 19 foot long EFHW vert at 15 feet next to my house. Using SDR's around the country and Hawaii I have found it does as well as my other antennas.But unlike my 3 band hor dipole it is omni directional. A fishing pole to run a line over a tree to pull up a nylon rope to pull up the wire of an efhw vertically does very nicely.
@WFSteury Жыл бұрын
My 49er is also better than my Pixie. I recommend it. The receiver is excellent and the output is about 1 W. N9EGT
@WFSteury Жыл бұрын
I use a 12 V battery and have no trouble with my 2N2222 final. N9EGT.
@brianfields4479 Жыл бұрын
went through step by step, but never gets passed the clock setting, I get a completely different screen altogether. After three days I gave up.
@WFSteury Жыл бұрын
I use a socket with my PA transistor on my Pixie. The 2N2222 works very well with 12 volts and good swr
@AnthonyJones-vk6xq Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video, Björn. It helped me decide in favour of the SW-3B. It has the 3 best bands for working around Europe on QRP, i have subscribed to your channel its very interesting. 72 und AWDH
@adistef Жыл бұрын
I was under the impression that you should not TX without an antenna; maybe use a dummy load if you just do some tests?
@wkjagt3 ай бұрын
If you look at around 3:03, I think that's a dummy load he removes from the antenna connector before connecting the antenna.
@adistef3 ай бұрын
@@wkjagt true! at a glance, to me, it looked like an adapter for the antenna connector, but yeah, my bad
@m005kennedy Жыл бұрын
I have a serious question. I've learned cokes cause a power loss. In QRP that could be a significant problem. Could You explain any power loss from this set up?
@thuff3207 Жыл бұрын
Very nice and yes a small notebook works. To bad you can’t use a tablet instead.
@Francois_Dupont Жыл бұрын
how do you calculate the best cable lenght?
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
You don't need to calculate cable length. Only try & error. As I showed in the video you can easily test this things and find your optimal length. May be something > l/4 should be a good starting point. Best regards, Björn
@Francois_Dupont Жыл бұрын
@@echopapaqrp8166 ok thank you!
@travisScott-theoriginal Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the video! What is the sinkhole?
@msgaltman3075 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review. Very helpful. How many characters does the CW keyer memory hold? I have read several reviews stating that it can not hold a standard SOTA or POTA CQ call, for example "CQ SOTA CQ SOTA DE KO4YLZ".
@wd8dsb10 ай бұрын
I have 3 QCX-mini transceivers and just got done with my first POTA activation. I was able to program CQ CQ CQ POTA WD8DSB WD8DSB K into the QCX-mini memory keyer and it worked great. Just FYI, Don
@ys1rs Жыл бұрын
Hello Björn. Have you been able to test the two meter cable with the counter poise? Interesting…. QRPGUYS also offer the exact same EFHW antenna kit in a smaller package but with a counterpoise nut on the side. It is called QRPGuys Mini 80m-10m No Tune End Fed Half Wave Antenna. Look at it. Exactly the very same circuit in a different presentation. This one comes in a box that offers a little more rain protection. The other one, the green one on your video, doubles as a wire winder and is more eye appealing, but has no rain protection at all. I have both versions but, as strange as it gets, the one in the box works way better than the green one. Have used both without counterpoise. I then added a counterpoise to the one with a box and no change was noticed at all. I was using a 10 meter RF cable. The radiating wire length was exactly as per QRPGUYS table and was perfect match. The same wire was then moved to the green one and didn’t produce the same results. It required a little shortening to match. Same RF cable, same day, same place. Same conditions. Again, same exact circuit. Makes no sense at all. 73, Rob, YS1RS
@harryszwergstatt2879 Жыл бұрын
Interessantes Video😊
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
Danke 🙂
@mattweger437 Жыл бұрын
Wish I could drop $1400 on a radio right now but I just bought nods
@havefun2952 Жыл бұрын
Hi, I am a new ham. How many AA batteries are in your battery pack? What is the name of the wire which connects the battery pack to your transceiver?
@tonywright8294 Жыл бұрын
If you need to ask don’t bother
@user-vl5zv2zr1m Жыл бұрын
Привет. Получил с Алиэкспресс такой же набор. Стал смотреть, а там вместо микросхемы NE602, продавец положил другую. NE592D. Я не знаю, наверно это не аналог NE602.
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
Please write in English. So we can discuss topics international. Thanks.
@MrLittlmike22 Жыл бұрын
really interetsing - can I ask how long is the element pelase? (I ahve built smae antenna - and having trouble tunning it
@UnderTheBigOak Жыл бұрын
I have made many cw contacts with my SW-3B, I love it. Been tempted to buy a QCX mini just to have in my CW backpack but haven't yet.
@gabrymir-radio Жыл бұрын
It seems like a good solution for not spending much. Were you able to make QSOs?
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
No, I was not able to make a QSO. You need a much more powerful antenna than mine. But I think it is possible.
@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Жыл бұрын
@@echopapaqrp8166how much power did you get out of it ??
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Iam not sure. But I think something about 1-2Watts. But never the announced 3Watts.
@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Жыл бұрын
@@echopapaqrp8166 my mate George VK2AOE, who has the Art of Engineering channel just built one and the finals lasted 15 minutes before they popped I was curious as to how yours held together Did you ever manage to get a QSO since making the video ?? Thanks for getting back to me de VK2NAP
@propagating-radio Жыл бұрын
Very nice video. Thanks for sharing this. 73 from Missouri, USA.
@larspregge6420 Жыл бұрын
On teh sw3b you can hear am radio within the hamradioband.
@o2bnov0307 Жыл бұрын
Can you explain the birdies with the QCX-mini? I am still undecided which of these two radios to purchase. Do these make using the radio difficult? Also, do you use an auto antenna tuner, or a “band specific” antenna? Having multiple bands is a nice idea, but when I review my log I see that most of my CW is on 20m. Thank you (and others who’d like to help) for your guidance.
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
Hi, normally I use only band specific antennas. Only with the Elecraft KX2 I use random wire. The birdies I never checked. I think it is not so bad. You can use the TRX without any problem. I think both transceivers are very useful. I like the CW monitor on the QCX and I like the 3 bands and the SSB reception on the SW3B. Both are good. Vy 73 de Bjoern
@thejoker-ie1mm Жыл бұрын
Thanks for video and comparison. 72/73 de IK2RGV
@mattsartori2624 Жыл бұрын
Great 😊 video Thanks for sharing 73 de KK7GiJ!!!
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
thanks
@du6waj757 Жыл бұрын
you are using the chinse clone of the qrpguys end fed
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
I know that and I mentioned it in one video.
@kirkp_nextguitar Жыл бұрын
The correct term is counterfeit.
@billgarand5663 Жыл бұрын
The cheap toroid coils on those cause most of the problems. Replace that or buy the original product for best use.
@mcarroll5885 Жыл бұрын
My QCX-mini, purchased assembled in Dec., 2021, has no birdies and no step noise. So, those problems in the video should not be taken as common ones.
@gliderrider Жыл бұрын
I would love to see more of the micro SDR radio. Beautiful mountains there!
@rst5nn Жыл бұрын
Hi, WSPR showed very poor performance or propagation. Despite the number of spots, all of them have VERY low SNR. E.g. SNR 6dB means that your signal is 1S unit above the noise level. In your case the best results is 0dB that means that almost no one (except software) was able to receive your Morse Code signal by ears (this we saw with CW beacon). Also, in additional to SWR, more intersing R/X. Because adding more cable or adding CMC choke you adds more reactance and it should be compensated e.g. by capacitor or inductance. But anyway, looking on impedance, the best one is third, because it has active 48 Ohms and capacitance can be compensated a little longer coax (or antenna). The worst is third one, because it has real 65 Ohms and a little inductance.
@ferdinandfrozenstein Жыл бұрын
Hello! Totally agree regarding the SW-3B knob, it feels very cheap and you have to be very careful about it, not only when using it, but also when packing it to your bag. I am afraid that it will break some day. It is not designed for tuning around bands, rather to set a frequency and call CQ... I am also missing a SWR meter, to be able to check if the antenna is OK. I will need to assemble one. Last little thing is that it cannot call CQ in a loop, it appears that you need to press the button for each CQ... (Or hopefully, am I missing something?) The rest about SW-3B is great, receiver is good enough, the RF gain knob is very useful. I like this RIG very much, looking forward to test it in the field, at some summit or so!
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
Fully agree! I made some expirience that the QCXmini has huge problems if your antenna is not perfect and has some RF on the cable. The SW-3B never showed a problem like that. Receiver is also very nice. It can be reduced to the cheap tuning knob. Maybe it is somehow possible to change it to a more valuable one. Vy 73 de Björn
@ai5dd Жыл бұрын
Good video, my KX2 internal tuner has had the same issue once in awhile, I believe it's the wire changing conditions? I also use the Elecraft T1 ATU with a Yaesu FT-818. Tschuess de AI5DD
@echopapaqrp8166 Жыл бұрын
I had a talk with the German Elecraft support. It was the memory of the tuner. You can delete this memory. For me this works very fine. After resetting the memory the problem never came back. Vy 73 de Björn
@ds1txy2 жыл бұрын
What's the antenna model name? Can I use it without a tuner?
@echopapaqrp81662 жыл бұрын
It's a kind of noname antenna. I used all this antennas without an tuner.
@maurocalderan79192 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@echopapaqrp81662 жыл бұрын
It is 👍
@stevec21962 жыл бұрын
The speaker is hard to hear since it is closed up inside the case so I turned it over to face up and drilled some holes in the top of the case to make it easy to hear.
@coltendoc2 жыл бұрын
No proof no qso. Lol. Great video. Tell us a little more about the micro sdr set up pls.
@echopapaqrp81662 жыл бұрын
The setup is easy: micro SDR, LiFePo 3Ah battery, telescope antenna for 20m and 10m wire as counterpoise to the telescope. Thats it. I used the internal microphone of the transceiver. I am sure it sounds really ugly. But it worked.
@coltendoc2 жыл бұрын
@@echopapaqrp8166 awesome. If it not kinda ugly in this hobby, you have to be quite wealthy lol. I love playing “will it radiate?” here in Texas. The answer most of the time is yes. Keep up the awesome work.
@ardilla86512 жыл бұрын
Cool landscape! I hope next year will go on holidays to Dolomitas. Random wire is not the best choice and without pole...hihi. Tnx fer show us. 73 EA3BV
@echopapaqrp81662 жыл бұрын
It is really fantastic there. Fresh air, kilometers of view, green...... and.... of course QRP 😂👍
@brambo47762 жыл бұрын
Nice place! Hope u enjoyed it! 73
@echopapaqrp81662 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed very much 👍
@BargainBasementHamRadio2 жыл бұрын
Very nice outing! I've lived in Germany many years ago and I miss much about it. Thanks for sharing! The KX2 is a great radio and I think I'll own it some day. 73-
@lindaitken33212 жыл бұрын
Danke vielmals
@eddy25612 жыл бұрын
A huge pro for the SW 3B is that it's not a kit like the QCX......I've built a 40m QCX and it was a very frustrating experience for me. 73
@rst5nn Жыл бұрын
You always can purchase an assemblied QCX mini.
@tommycheshire55082 жыл бұрын
You probably have the one in 10,000 that works well. You are lucky that you were able to repair the radio. You must be a talented operator with steady hands.
@echopapaqrp81662 жыл бұрын
I am not sure if the quality is so bad. But the transceiver works so much better. I expect that they use some crappy and cheap I/Q mixer chips. The replacement was much better quality. I try to compare the uSDR with my Elecraft KX2. Stations was always nearby the same strength. But a small signal sounds scratchy on the uSDR and clean and readable on the KX2. But there is a sensitivity similar to the KX2 and you can work with it. Because of the size it is a really interesting transceiver. TX quality is another issue. It works but it sounds like s**t. Vy 73 de Bjoern.
@martinsmith87322 жыл бұрын
The radio sounds so much better. Please show us the new chip replacement and your mic and speaker set up. Thanks, Martin.
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Oh boy I got to practice my German with this video. Northern German people pronounce their words more slowly. Easier to understand.
I love my QRP Lab Transceivers... I own seven... A QCX Mini 20, 30 & 40, a Hi & Loband QDX, and a Lobander QMX... My QCX Minis have a K6ARK capacitive key mod, using acorn nuts. I love this mode... All units thrive on the TalentCell 12v 3aH battery, which mate perfectly with these radios. I use a PackTenna EFλ/2 cut to 40 meters, with an appropriate length of RG316 using the shield as the counterpoise. Thanks again Bjorn for your content. 72 de W7UDT
This is an encouraging video. I just received my kit, but I have not built it yet, but now you have given me good motivation to start!!!
SW-3B's crystal lader filter work a better I think over phased method QCX use.
Good video. Thank you. Can I use this device to practice typing on a lambric key?
Mine blew up and as I tired to repair it the copper track lifted. Good while it lasted on 5.262 MHz. My new one has a fault on the track, when the audio jack plug was inserted it shorted out the audio. I removed the socket to confirm it and destroyed the socket. The track needs cutting, check before soldering the socket in place. There seem to be a few manufacturers of Pixie's. G4GHB.
I used the PA circuit to build a QRP beacon and found the device sometimes died. I was observing some unwanted oscillation in the PA. Fixing a 30V zenner from collector to ground fixed the problem. 73
I am watching this a year later than my first question. I still don’t know what you mean by “errors on the cable”. Did you have interference in your transceiver? RF feedback? I am still mystified. The SWR was very low and I saw nothing on the analyzer that would bother me. Please give me more information on what the errors were and how they caused you any trouble. I do agree that a common mode choke helps reduce any feedback into your rig and sometimes makes reception better but the “errors”? Also the Chinese knock off with the bad spelling is probably of poor quality (the toroid) so the results might be in error due to that. I have the USA made one from real The QRP Guys and it performs very well for what it is. Dave K8WPE since 1960
Be nice to see if a EFHW run vertically does as well as the short vertical. So many of these verts dont make it clear how the EFHW was run. Like any odd length wire or hor ant its going to have nulls. I have a 19 foot long EFHW vert at 15 feet next to my house. Using SDR's around the country and Hawaii I have found it does as well as my other antennas.But unlike my 3 band hor dipole it is omni directional. A fishing pole to run a line over a tree to pull up a nylon rope to pull up the wire of an efhw vertically does very nicely.
My 49er is also better than my Pixie. I recommend it. The receiver is excellent and the output is about 1 W. N9EGT
I use a 12 V battery and have no trouble with my 2N2222 final. N9EGT.
went through step by step, but never gets passed the clock setting, I get a completely different screen altogether. After three days I gave up.
I use a socket with my PA transistor on my Pixie. The 2N2222 works very well with 12 volts and good swr
Thank you so much for this video, Björn. It helped me decide in favour of the SW-3B. It has the 3 best bands for working around Europe on QRP, i have subscribed to your channel its very interesting. 72 und AWDH
I was under the impression that you should not TX without an antenna; maybe use a dummy load if you just do some tests?
If you look at around 3:03, I think that's a dummy load he removes from the antenna connector before connecting the antenna.
@@wkjagt true! at a glance, to me, it looked like an adapter for the antenna connector, but yeah, my bad
I have a serious question. I've learned cokes cause a power loss. In QRP that could be a significant problem. Could You explain any power loss from this set up?
Very nice and yes a small notebook works. To bad you can’t use a tablet instead.
how do you calculate the best cable lenght?
You don't need to calculate cable length. Only try & error. As I showed in the video you can easily test this things and find your optimal length. May be something > l/4 should be a good starting point. Best regards, Björn
@@echopapaqrp8166 ok thank you!
Enjoyed the video! What is the sinkhole?
Thanks for the review. Very helpful. How many characters does the CW keyer memory hold? I have read several reviews stating that it can not hold a standard SOTA or POTA CQ call, for example "CQ SOTA CQ SOTA DE KO4YLZ".
I have 3 QCX-mini transceivers and just got done with my first POTA activation. I was able to program CQ CQ CQ POTA WD8DSB WD8DSB K into the QCX-mini memory keyer and it worked great. Just FYI, Don
Hello Björn. Have you been able to test the two meter cable with the counter poise? Interesting…. QRPGUYS also offer the exact same EFHW antenna kit in a smaller package but with a counterpoise nut on the side. It is called QRPGuys Mini 80m-10m No Tune End Fed Half Wave Antenna. Look at it. Exactly the very same circuit in a different presentation. This one comes in a box that offers a little more rain protection. The other one, the green one on your video, doubles as a wire winder and is more eye appealing, but has no rain protection at all. I have both versions but, as strange as it gets, the one in the box works way better than the green one. Have used both without counterpoise. I then added a counterpoise to the one with a box and no change was noticed at all. I was using a 10 meter RF cable. The radiating wire length was exactly as per QRPGUYS table and was perfect match. The same wire was then moved to the green one and didn’t produce the same results. It required a little shortening to match. Same RF cable, same day, same place. Same conditions. Again, same exact circuit. Makes no sense at all. 73, Rob, YS1RS
Interessantes Video😊
Danke 🙂
Wish I could drop $1400 on a radio right now but I just bought nods
Hi, I am a new ham. How many AA batteries are in your battery pack? What is the name of the wire which connects the battery pack to your transceiver?
If you need to ask don’t bother
Привет. Получил с Алиэкспресс такой же набор. Стал смотреть, а там вместо микросхемы NE602, продавец положил другую. NE592D. Я не знаю, наверно это не аналог NE602.
Please write in English. So we can discuss topics international. Thanks.
really interetsing - can I ask how long is the element pelase? (I ahve built smae antenna - and having trouble tunning it
I have made many cw contacts with my SW-3B, I love it. Been tempted to buy a QCX mini just to have in my CW backpack but haven't yet.
It seems like a good solution for not spending much. Were you able to make QSOs?
No, I was not able to make a QSO. You need a much more powerful antenna than mine. But I think it is possible.
@@echopapaqrp8166how much power did you get out of it ??
@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Iam not sure. But I think something about 1-2Watts. But never the announced 3Watts.
@@echopapaqrp8166 my mate George VK2AOE, who has the Art of Engineering channel just built one and the finals lasted 15 minutes before they popped I was curious as to how yours held together Did you ever manage to get a QSO since making the video ?? Thanks for getting back to me de VK2NAP
Very nice video. Thanks for sharing this. 73 from Missouri, USA.
On teh sw3b you can hear am radio within the hamradioband.
Can you explain the birdies with the QCX-mini? I am still undecided which of these two radios to purchase. Do these make using the radio difficult? Also, do you use an auto antenna tuner, or a “band specific” antenna? Having multiple bands is a nice idea, but when I review my log I see that most of my CW is on 20m. Thank you (and others who’d like to help) for your guidance.
Hi, normally I use only band specific antennas. Only with the Elecraft KX2 I use random wire. The birdies I never checked. I think it is not so bad. You can use the TRX without any problem. I think both transceivers are very useful. I like the CW monitor on the QCX and I like the 3 bands and the SSB reception on the SW3B. Both are good. Vy 73 de Bjoern
Thanks for video and comparison. 72/73 de IK2RGV
Great 😊 video Thanks for sharing 73 de KK7GiJ!!!
thanks
you are using the chinse clone of the qrpguys end fed
I know that and I mentioned it in one video.
The correct term is counterfeit.
The cheap toroid coils on those cause most of the problems. Replace that or buy the original product for best use.
My QCX-mini, purchased assembled in Dec., 2021, has no birdies and no step noise. So, those problems in the video should not be taken as common ones.
I would love to see more of the micro SDR radio. Beautiful mountains there!
Hi, WSPR showed very poor performance or propagation. Despite the number of spots, all of them have VERY low SNR. E.g. SNR 6dB means that your signal is 1S unit above the noise level. In your case the best results is 0dB that means that almost no one (except software) was able to receive your Morse Code signal by ears (this we saw with CW beacon). Also, in additional to SWR, more intersing R/X. Because adding more cable or adding CMC choke you adds more reactance and it should be compensated e.g. by capacitor or inductance. But anyway, looking on impedance, the best one is third, because it has active 48 Ohms and capacitance can be compensated a little longer coax (or antenna). The worst is third one, because it has real 65 Ohms and a little inductance.
Hello! Totally agree regarding the SW-3B knob, it feels very cheap and you have to be very careful about it, not only when using it, but also when packing it to your bag. I am afraid that it will break some day. It is not designed for tuning around bands, rather to set a frequency and call CQ... I am also missing a SWR meter, to be able to check if the antenna is OK. I will need to assemble one. Last little thing is that it cannot call CQ in a loop, it appears that you need to press the button for each CQ... (Or hopefully, am I missing something?) The rest about SW-3B is great, receiver is good enough, the RF gain knob is very useful. I like this RIG very much, looking forward to test it in the field, at some summit or so!
Fully agree! I made some expirience that the QCXmini has huge problems if your antenna is not perfect and has some RF on the cable. The SW-3B never showed a problem like that. Receiver is also very nice. It can be reduced to the cheap tuning knob. Maybe it is somehow possible to change it to a more valuable one. Vy 73 de Björn
Good video, my KX2 internal tuner has had the same issue once in awhile, I believe it's the wire changing conditions? I also use the Elecraft T1 ATU with a Yaesu FT-818. Tschuess de AI5DD
I had a talk with the German Elecraft support. It was the memory of the tuner. You can delete this memory. For me this works very fine. After resetting the memory the problem never came back. Vy 73 de Björn
What's the antenna model name? Can I use it without a tuner?
It's a kind of noname antenna. I used all this antennas without an tuner.
Beautiful
It is 👍
The speaker is hard to hear since it is closed up inside the case so I turned it over to face up and drilled some holes in the top of the case to make it easy to hear.
No proof no qso. Lol. Great video. Tell us a little more about the micro sdr set up pls.
The setup is easy: micro SDR, LiFePo 3Ah battery, telescope antenna for 20m and 10m wire as counterpoise to the telescope. Thats it. I used the internal microphone of the transceiver. I am sure it sounds really ugly. But it worked.
@@echopapaqrp8166 awesome. If it not kinda ugly in this hobby, you have to be quite wealthy lol. I love playing “will it radiate?” here in Texas. The answer most of the time is yes. Keep up the awesome work.
Cool landscape! I hope next year will go on holidays to Dolomitas. Random wire is not the best choice and without pole...hihi. Tnx fer show us. 73 EA3BV
It is really fantastic there. Fresh air, kilometers of view, green...... and.... of course QRP 😂👍
Nice place! Hope u enjoyed it! 73
I enjoyed very much 👍
Very nice outing! I've lived in Germany many years ago and I miss much about it. Thanks for sharing! The KX2 is a great radio and I think I'll own it some day. 73-
Danke vielmals
A huge pro for the SW 3B is that it's not a kit like the QCX......I've built a 40m QCX and it was a very frustrating experience for me. 73
You always can purchase an assemblied QCX mini.
You probably have the one in 10,000 that works well. You are lucky that you were able to repair the radio. You must be a talented operator with steady hands.
I am not sure if the quality is so bad. But the transceiver works so much better. I expect that they use some crappy and cheap I/Q mixer chips. The replacement was much better quality. I try to compare the uSDR with my Elecraft KX2. Stations was always nearby the same strength. But a small signal sounds scratchy on the uSDR and clean and readable on the KX2. But there is a sensitivity similar to the KX2 and you can work with it. Because of the size it is a really interesting transceiver. TX quality is another issue. It works but it sounds like s**t. Vy 73 de Bjoern.
The radio sounds so much better. Please show us the new chip replacement and your mic and speaker set up. Thanks, Martin.
Hi Martin, I will show this soon. Stay tuned :-)